FIGMENT Kickstarter is up!
FIGMENT’s Kickstarter “curated page” is up! Check it out! http://kickstarter.com/figment. This is where we’ll list all FIGMENT-related projects looking for funding on Kickstarter! To list your FIGMENT project, email us at info@figmentproject.org.
May 1: deadline for FIGMENT NYC Weekend projects
FIGMENT invites all you creative thinkers and doers out there to submit their project for our NYC Weekend event on June 9-10. Deadline for submission is 23:59pm (EST) on May 1—that’s TONIGHT! We welcome projects in any conceivable medium. You can bring a game, an experiment, a request, a challenge, a guided meditation, a performance [...]
Pavilion competition registration deadline extended to April 15
Studies have shown that deadlines are not good for your health. They keep you up at night. They make you bite your nails, snap at innocent bystanders and will have you rack your sleep-deprived brain for that divine flicker of inspiration that somehow always seems to spark around 4AM. To help you hold on to [...]
Submissions closed for NYC Minigolf Course and Sculpture Garden
Registration and submission for the 2012 FIGMENT Minigolf Course and Sculpture Garden is now closed. Thank you to all the wonderful creative builders who submitted their proposals! We will notify artists by April 1, 2012 if their design has been selected to be part of FIGMENT’s 2012 Minigolf Course “Arcade” or our interactive Sculpture Garden [...]
Summer-long Projects Deadline Extended to March 15
A wise man once said, “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Urgency, when applied to creativity, can lead to greatness. So all you creative builders out there, stop dreaming about it, and submit your art projects for our 2012 Summer-long Sculpture Garden and Minigolf Course on Governors Island! We have extended our deadline [...]
GROUNDBREAKING: The Factory tickets now available
“I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘FIGMENT.’ ” — Andy Warhol, 1985 Buy tickets here. … FIGMENT owes more than just its name to Andy Warhol, whose legendary excursions into experience-based and participatory art paved the way for [...]
2012 Calls for Participation NYC, BOSTON, JXN and DETROIT now open
Submissions are now open for FIGMENT 2012 events in Jackson, MS (April 28-29), Boston (June 2-3), NYC (June 9-10) and Detroit (July 21-22), and the summer-long exhibitions in NYC! Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable — from sculpture and installations to performance, workshops, games, electronic art, music, dance, etc. To submit a project [...]
2012 Calls for Participation NYC, BOSTON and JXN now open
Submissions are now open for FIGMENT 2012 events in Jackson, MS (April 28-29), Boston (June 2-3) and NYC (June 9-10), and the summer-long exhibitions in NYC! Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable — from sculpture and installations to performance, workshops, games, electronic art, music, dance, etc. To submit a project for FIGMENT JXN, [...]
Bittertang of Burble Bup Pavilion featured in upcoming events
Bittertang of Burble Bup Pavilion featured in upcoming events Design Firm Bittertang (Antonio Torres, Mikey Loverich) of the Burble Bup Pavilion will be featured in a few wonderful events and talks this weekend! Friday, June 3—Sunday, June 5, 2011: Bushwick Open Studios Bushwick Open Studios will be taking place this weekend, incorporating all types of [...]
Please Help Us Take Apart FIGMENT Minigolf and Sculpture Garden
It’s been a great summer for FIGMENT on Governors Island, with nearly 25,000 people coming out for the FIGMENT weekend in June, and perhaps as many as 200,000 visiting FIGMENT Terrace, playing minigolf and interacting with the sculpture garden over the summer… Now it’s time to put all our toys away… and begin dreaming up ways to make FIGMENT 2011 even bigger and better!
Take Home a Piece of the Living Pavilion!
The Living Pavilion has had a great summer… but now it’s time to take it apart. We will begin disassembling the Living Pavilion on Saturday Oct. 2, and will continue on Sunday Oct. 3. Please come by, lend a hand in taking apart the pavilion, and take a few crates home with you!
Art and Populism
In Friday?s Weekend section of The New York Times, Edward Rothstein wrote a fairly evenhanded story about Governors Island as ?A Playground for the Arts.” As a follow-up, Ken Johnson contributed a dismissive and offensive post on the Times blog. In his critique, Johnson manages to miss the point entirely. The art on Governors Island isn?t for him. This is art for the rest of us.
Upcoming FIGMENT Events
Hello everyone! We hope you’re enjoying your post-FIGMENT summer! Even though FIGMENT 2011 is eleven months away, there are still a number of FIGMENT-related events going on! For starters, our summer-long installations on Governors Island?the FIGMENT Sculpture Garden, Minigolf Course, and the Living Pavilion?are open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday through October 3. So come out to the island and have another look, and please consider volunteering to help at the minigolf course!
Thank you everyone!
Thanks to everyone who made FIGMENT such an amazing success… to all of our artists, team members, volunteers, and participants who came out in Boston and New York and made FIGMENT happen! We had nearly 25,000 participants in New York from June 11-13, interacting with 400 art projects, and approximately 10,000 participants in Boston interacting with nearly 100 art projects! Please help us balance our books for 2010 and plan for the future!
The FIGMENT Update (by David Koren)
When our group got together to start FIGMENT in 2007, we never had any idea that it could ever grow this much, this fast. In 2010, our three-day NYC event had nearly 25,000 participants, and our Boston event, just in its first year, had something like 10,000 participants. It’s really amazing to see how quickly [...]
FIGMENT NYC this weekend!
Last weekend’s FIGMENT Boston event was a tremendous success! Thank you so much to all of the dedicated and talented artists and volunteers who made it happen. Photos are being posted online as we speak, and you can view some of the ones on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=figmentboston2010&m=text. We’re gearing up for this weekend’s FIGMENT NYC [...]
New FIGMENT Video!
Have a look at our wonderful new FIGMENT video, directed by Justin Lange and produced by Ashley Martinez!
Groundbreaking Art Preview & Reception
Please join us to preview FIGMENT art for our 2nd annual Groundbreaking Fundraiser, April 28th at the Gershwin Hotel. For more information & tickets: http://figmentproject.org/groundbreaking
Update: FIGMENT Fundraising 2010
We are excited to announce that so far, FIGMENT projects have received 5 grants this year. BRAF, LMCC and NYC DCA are supporting various FIGMENT projects. Out of over 300 submissions, the Black Rock Arts Foundation chose 2 FIGMENT projects to support. BRAF has collaborated with FIGMENT in past years; they provided initial funding for [...]
Finalists for City of Dreams Pavilion Design Competition Announced!
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2010 City of Dreams Pavilion Design Competition: ECHOMATERICO (Berardo Matalucci, Fabiano Spano, Guillermo Ivan L?pez Dominguez, Enrico Crobu), Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo of NAMELESS ARCHITECTURE, Ann Ha and Behrang Behin, and Lonn Combs, RA, of EASTON+COMBS.
Submission open for FIGMENT NYC and FIGMENT Boston!
Submissions are now open for FIGMENT 2010 events in NYC (June 11-13) and Boston (June 5)! Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable–from sculpture and installations to performance, workshops, games, electronic art, music, dance, etc. To submit, go to http://figmentproject.org/participate. FIGMENT event submissions close on May 1. What are you bringing?
City of Dreams Pavilion Competition Jurors Announced / Deadline Extended: Register by 2/16, submit by 2/23
FIGMENT, The Emerging New York Architect Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) are pleased to announce the jurors for the 2010 City of Dreams Pavilion Competition to design and construct a pavilion on Governors Island. In addition, in response to requests from individuals and teams who are preparing proposals for the competition, we will be extending the deadline. Entrants must register by Tuesday, February 16, and submissions must be received by Tuesday, February 23.
FIGMENT Announces NYC 2010 Dates, Opens Submissions for Season-Long Projects
We are thrilled to announce the dates for FIGMENT NYC 2010 and invite artists and audiences to become a part of the project. FIGMENT 2010 will be held on June 11-13, 2010, on Governors Island in New York Harbor. While submissions are open for our season-long projects (the pavilion, the minigolf course, and the sculpture garden), we will be accepting submissions for the FIGMENT event beginning on February 15.
Call for Proposals: FIGMENT Minigolf
Your challenge is to design and construct a single hole for this mini golf course, following the theme. We intend to interpret our theme very loosely, and are seeking 18 holes that interpret this theme with as much diversity of perspective as possible. You can interpret the theme metaphorically, literally, historically, or with as much poetic license as you like. Designs will be selected on creativity, structural integrity, playability, feasibility, adherence to theme, and budget.
