Deadlines extended for City of Dreams Pavilion Competition
We have extended our deadline for The City of Dreams 2013-2014 Pavilion Design Competition! You can register for the competition until June 1 and submit your design by July 1 with the information we send you in your registration packet. Our theme for the pavilion, the City of Dreams, points toward the future. If we [...]
Submissions closed for 2013 FIGMENT NYC Weekend
Submissions for our FIGMENT 2013 NYC Weekend are now closed. If you have registered your project and have any questions, please address them to you curator or mail to NYCcuratorial@figmentproject.org. If you haven’t submitted your project, but would still like to be part of FIGMENT: we invite you to bring your unregistered project to the [...]
Last change: Submissions deadline extended to April 28!
You—yes, you! Did you miss Wednesday’s deadline to submit your boldly creative, must-try interactive project for our event in NYC (June 8-9)? Or did you start with your submission, but didn’t have a chance to finish it? We must admit, April 24 came and went so fast it didn’t even say goodbye. That’s why 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. [...]
Submissions for Sculpture Garden now closed; submit for Minigolf today!
Submissions for the FIGMENT Summer-Long Interactive Sculpture Garden are now closed. If you have submitted a project, we will notify you by March 1, 2013 if your design has been selected. For more information, check out the web page. Missed the deadline, but bursting with ideas you want to share this summer at FIGMENT? It [...]
Deadline for 2013 Sculpture Garden proposals extended!
For all you procrastinatin’ poets, daunted doers and late-blooming visionaries out there: FIGMENT NYC has extended the deadline to submit a proposal for the 2013 Interactive Sculpture Garden to February 15! The highly acclaimed summer-long sculpture garden will find a temporary home on Governors Island from the FIGMENT NYC weekend event on June 8 until [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
FIGMENT voted Best Art Festival by Village Voice
We’ve secretly known for a while that FIGMENT is a uniquely wonderful event, but we are nonetheless very excited to see the media is catching on, too: The Village Voice has voted FIGMENT NYC the Best Art Festival of 2011! Our 2011 NYC Weekend event is “one of the most exciting arts weekends within ferry [...]
Join us for FIGMENT: Demolition Weekend
As much as we hate to admit it, summer is slowly coming to an end. That means we are approaching that time to de-install all FIGMENT @Liggett Terrace projects: our Sculpture Garden, Minigolf Course and Burble Bup Pavilion. Everything must go! De-installation, deconstruction, demolition… Sounds like fun? Fun you shall have! Come out to Governors [...]
Help us maintain our FIGMENT @ Liggett Terrace projects this summer
As the city is slowly roasting in the hot summer sun, FIGMENT’s season-long projects on Governors Island offer shade, solace and FREE summer fun to visitors of Liggett Terrace. We expect about 200,000 people to come out and contemplate, interact with, dance around, play with, talk about, and generally enjoy the FIGMENT 2011 Sculpture Garden, [...]
Bring your (non submitted) art to FIGMENT NYC 2011
Yes, submissions for the FIGMENT NYC 2011 weekend are closed. But we would still love to have you and your art project on Governors Island for the event! Even though submissions are closed, we want to encourage everyone to bring their art with them to FIGMENT — whatever it is, and in whatever media. As [...]
Registration for FIGMENT 2011 NYC now closed
Registration for the FIGMENT 2011 NYC Weekend is officially closed. You may have missed the deadline for the NYC event on Governors Island, but don’t let that stop you from entering a project for this year’s FIGMENT on that other island, Belle Isle in Detroit, on August 6! Calls for Participation for FIGMENT Detroit are [...]
Registration for Minigolf Course now closed
Registration for the 2011 Minigolf Course “Bugs and Features” is officially closed. All registered artists still have time to submit their projects until March 1, 2011. You may have missed the deadline for the Season Long exhibitions Governors Island, but don’t let that stop you from entering a project for this year’s FIGMENT Weekend! Calls [...]