Leo Kuelbs Collection
3_Search

Light Year: Program 2:
Crest and Trough    

June 4th, 2015, dusk - 10pm
Dumbo, Brooklyn
Anchorage Place and Pearl St.

Multiple-Event Manhattan Bridge Projection Project
co-presented with the DUMBO Improvement District in conjunction with DUMBO First Thursdays.

Curators: Sarah Walko and John Ensor Parker

Artists:
Ella Condon (Australia) The Light Loop
Joao Penoni (South America | Brazil) Volt
Klaus Pamminger (Europe | Austria) Notes on Mackey Marina Zurkow (North America | USA) Elixir
Paul Miller | djSpooky (Antarctica) Sinfonia Antarctica Shahram Entekhabi (Asia | Iran) I am John Galt
Zina Saro-Wiwa (Africa | Nigeria) Sarogua Mourning

“Crest and Trough” is a video exhibition with each of the seven continents being represented. The title is a derived reference to the four oceans that lie between the continents and their waves that continually unify and transmit.

The space between the crest and the trough of a wave varies depending on the size and amplitude. This as a metaphor is a dynamic region that contains varying perspectives of life, death, tradition and culture from each continent to culminate in New York City together, sharing the same canvas.

“Crest and Trough” is presented as a part of “Light Year”, a series of projected video art exhibitions that occur on the First Thursday of every month in DUMBO, Brooklyn on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage. It is made possible by 3_Search, the DUMBO Business Improvement District and the NYC Department of Transportation Art Program, "Light Year” was conceived in honor of the United Nations’ declaration of 2015 as The Year of Light.

http://3-search.net
For more information contact Sarah Walko: sarahwalko@gmail.com 

about Light Year

The Manhattan Bridge comes alive with “Light Year,” a one-year program of projected video art presented the First Thursday of every month.  In honor of the United Nations’ declaration of 2015 as The Year of Light and Light Art, “Light Year” will include a well-rounded program of video artists from around the globe.  Curated, created and presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection, John Ensor Parker and Glowing Bulbs (aka 3_Search), “Light Year” will reveal surprising connections and highlight Dumbo’s role as an important hub for technology and the arts.  Digital and more traditional artists, well known and emerging, will have an opportunity to see their work presented on a large scale in NYC’s fastest evolving neighborhood, all on an internationally recognized architectural icon.  

The “Light Year” concept also invites viewers to consider the confluence of all types of Video Art, Public Art and Experimental Cinema.  Context changes meaning, the media and site become as crucial to the message as the content.  As technology and science continue their rapid evolutionary tracks, “Light Year” will highlight shifting points of view and perspective, which impact meaning and interaction.  The Curatorial team from 3_Search, will seek out and produce a variety of new programs designed for presentation in a public space, while also being at the forefront of public/video art content, collaboration and conceptual curiosity.

All of the collaborators, Curator Leo Kuelbs, Artist John Ensor Parker and Creative Team Glowing Bulbs (aka 3_Search) are based in Dumbo, and have been a part of almost every major projection event that has taken place on the Manhattan Bridge since 2010.  Their daily interactions with the bridge and the neighborhood, as well as their internationally recognized creative achievements are at the heart of the “Light Year” concept and project.  Working with the Dumbo BID and the NYC DOT, “Light Year” is an authentic representation of the neighborhood’s relationship to the city, as well as to the greater world.  Presented to the public, every first Thursday, free of charge.

More information: lkuelbscollection@gmail.com

Schedule and further information at leokuelbscollection.com/lightyear

Schedule:

“LIGHT YEAR”Program 2: 
Crest and Trough    
THURSDAY, June 4TH, DUSK - 10PM

curated by John Ensor Parker and Sarah Walko

Artists:
Ella Condon (Australia) The Light Loop
Joao Penoni (South America | Brazil) Volt
Klaus Pamminger (Europe | Austria) Notes on Mackey Marina Zurkow (North America | USA) Elixir
Paul Miller | djSpooky (Antarctica) Sinfonia Antarctica Shahram Entekhabi (Asia | Iran) I am John Galt
Zina Saro-Wiwa (Africa | Nigeria) Sarogua Mourning

More Information Here

Also on June 4th:
TRANSFLEXION — NET OF MIRRORS
Video + Sound Exhibition
Made in NY Media Center by IFP
30 John Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

“Light Year” Inaugural Event:
Thursday, May 7th, Dusk

Program: “Submerged!”

Curated by Leo Kuelbs and Karl Erickson
Presented by Leo Kuelbs Collection

“Submerged!” provides liquid visions of a multi-layered, every-shifting psychological seascape.  Seven video + sound pieces based upon three short stories by co-curator Leo Kuelbs make up the 30 minute looping program presented at the edge of the East River, on the Northern Anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge.

A group of visual and sonic-based artists from a variety of countries including Germany, Israel, Italy, USA, Portugal, Brazil and Hungary make “Submerged!” a truly international effort.  When represented from multiple cultural angles, a mysterious whole reveals itself, always changing, just beneath the viewable surface.

Artists Include: United VJs, Danielle de Picciotto and Alexander Hacke, Jim Ellis, Sam Marlow and Alon Cohen, Nicole Antebi and Laura Ortman, Kitzinger Gabor and Alex Hamadey, Shir Lieberman, Jonathan Phelps and Fabio Fonda