FIGMENT Opening Ceremony, Saturday 11am
Please join us for the kickoff to the FIGMENT NYC 2013 event, FIGMENT’s 7th Season on Governors Island, and the official opening of the Head in the Clouds Pavilion on Saturday at 11am at the Parade ground! Come out to hear from Executive Producer David Koren, FIGMENT NYC Producer Andrea Kirk, and original songs by [...]
Less than 24 hours to FIGMENT NYC!
This is it! Come tomorrow 10AM, the magical getaway that is Governors Island will be transformed into a ginormous playground of participatory art. For two days, artists and participants are invited to stretch their own boundaries when they interact with works in every imaginable medium including sculpture, installation, performance, music, workshops, games, experiences, site-specific pieces, [...]
7 More Days to Help FIGMENT NYC Come to Life!
Can you believe FIGMENT NYC is only a week and a half a way? Can’t wait to get to Governors Island and celebrate Participatory art? Why not start the party early and help us finalize the setup of our summer-long installations andweekend event? Our Minigolf Course, Sculpture Garden, TreeHouse, The Head in the Clouds Pavilion, and general build teams are always looking for able bodies and generous [...]
Join us for the FIGMENT NYC 2013 Opening Event!
Please join us for the kickoff to the FIGMENT NYC 2013 event, FIGMENT’s 7th Season on Governors Island, and the official opening of the Head in the Clouds Pavilion! Original tunes from Singer Son of Ed, including a new song about FIGMENT’s Principles Opening remarks from FIGMENT Executive Producer David Koren and FIGMENT NYC Producer [...]
See You at FIGMENT NYC (June 8-9)!
FIGMENT NYC is almost here! Our seventh annual FIGMENT NYC event on Governors Island will take place on June 8-9, from 10am to 6pm. Check out the event details here. We’ll be posting details on specific art projects and performances soon. FIGMENT NYC marks the unveiling of the 2013 City of Dreams Pavilion, “Head in the Clouds” [...]
THIS WEEKEND: FIGMENT JACKSON (Mississippi!)
figment from Azod Abedikichi on Vimeo. If you’re in the South this weekend (May 18-19), join us at FIGMENT Jackson! This is our third annual event in the wonderful city of Jackson… Full details are here. See you there!
April 18: SPARK! A creative fundraiser in DC
Join the FIGMENT DC Team for their FUN-raiser at Zeba, on Thursday, April 18th for a night of creative play. Save up your change for the silent auction, test your luck at the raffle, and explore your alternate personas during the sock puppet speed dating game. We’re raising money to support FIGMENT DC, and we [...]
April 2: FIGMENT’s The Factory Gala!
Only 4 days to go until FIGMENT’s The Factory Gala! On Tuesday April 2 we celebrate our history and our future, as FIGMENT grows up, gets serious, and makes an impact in cities around the world through participatory art. You’ll love it, if only for our open bar, hors d’oeuvres, performances and VERY special guests. [...]
Calls for Participation FIGMENT 2013 in Geelong, San Diego, NYC and JXN now open!
Submissions are now open for FIGMENT 2013 events in Geelong, Australia (March 23-24), San Diego (April 7), Jackson, MS (May 18-19), NYC (June 8-9), and the summer-long exhibitions in NYC! Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable — Your FIGMENT project can be anything… A game, an experiment, a request, a challenge, a guided [...]
The City of Dreams Pavilion 2012-2013 Head in the Clouds Bottle Collection
The City of Dreams Pavilion, Head in the Clouds, to be installed this summer on Governors Island, will be a venue where visitors can lose themselves in both the cloud-like structure, as well as the clouds in the sky around them. The pavilion requires an assortment of 16 oz/24 oz clear water bottles and 1 gallon milk/water jugs totaling 53,780 bottles. [...]
Calls for proposals NYC 2013 summer-long installations now open!
FIGMENT NYC is seeking artists for the 2013 Minigolf Course and Interactive Sculpture Garden, two highly acclaimed summer-long exhibitions that will find a temporary home on Governors Island from the FIGMENT NYC weekend event on June 8 until September 22, 2013. Both exhibitions will be free and open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays [...]
Fill out our FIGMENT 2012 Season-Long Sculpture Survey
Your opinion matters! We know we love the selection for our 2012 Season-Long Sculpture Garden… But what do you think? Please take a few minutes to share with us your favorite 2012 project, which installation you interacted with most, and which was most striking, and leave your comments so we can make next year’s Sculpture [...]
FIGMENT’s David Koren on Eye on New York
FIGMENT’s Interactive Sculpture Garden was featured on Eye on New York (CBS Channel 2, July 29, 2012)! Check out the interview with executive producer David Koren here — and if you haven’t yet had a chance, come out to Governors Island this summer and experience this wildly imaginative selection of original participatory art yourself. Maybe [...]
July 21: Opening of Superfront’s “PUBLIC SUMMER: Library of Immediacy”
From July 21-September 23, SUPERFRONT presents “PUBLIC SUMMER 2012: Library of Immediacy” in partnership with FIGMENT. Designed and constructed by architectural duo saA (Amy Chang and Seo Young Shin), The Library of Immediacy will host an ongoing, community-curated installation on weekends. Join SUPERFRONT and FIGMENT to celebrate the opening of this installation on Governors Island [...]
2012 Call for Participation Pittsburgh now open
Submissions are now open for the first ever FIGMENT Pittsburgh, October 6-7. The event will be in Allegheny Commons West Park, on Pittsburgh’s historic North Side. Project submissions are welcome in every medium imaginable — from sculpture and installations to performance, workshops, games, robots, electronic art, music, dance … whatever you can dream up! To [...]
Call for Participation Boston closes June 19
Today is the last day you can submit your project for FIGMENT Boston (July 28-29 on the Rose Kennedy Greenway)! So if you have been holding on to your wildly imaginative idea, performance, installation, work shop, dancing gnome, or any other project in any medium imaginable, today is the day to share it with FIGMENT [...]
Thank you SO MUCH for coming out to FIGMENT NYC!!
FIGMENT NYC took Governors Island by storm this weekend! Over the course of only two days, maxed-out ferries brought more than 25,000 people to the Island to marvel at, play with, giggle about, dance around and help create over 200 art projects in any imaginable medium. We want to thank all our visionary artists, all [...]
FIGMENT NYC this weekend, June 9-10!
“Somewhere over the rainbow / Skies are blue / And the dreams that you dare to dream / Really do come true.” That’s right! This weekend, you will find the end of the rainbow on Governors Island. And at the end of that rainbow FIGMENT NYC Weekend promises to be a spectacularly colorful event, with [...]
FIGMENT Boston Postponed! Rain Date July 28-29th
FIGMENT organizers and artists have worked for months to bring interactive art and performances to downtown Boston this weekend and our community has been incredibly supportive and excited about this unique, outdoors participatory arts event. Unfortunately, mother nature is unpredictable: there is a storm on the horizon that’s expected to hit Boston June 2-3 with [...]
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
(c) 2010 NY_MAN 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 [...]
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 [...]