FIGMENT is a non-profit organization dedicated to participatory and interactive art by emerging artists across disciplines. FIGMENT began in July 2007 as a free, one-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor with over 2,600 participants. Since then, it has grown to a multi-day, multi-city event that drew over 30,000 participants in NYC, Jackson, Detroit, and Boston in 2011. In addition to the FIGMENT weekend event, FIGMENT hosts a summer-long program on Governors Island that includes an interactive sculpture garden, an artist-designed minigolf course, and an architectural pavilion that is the result of a collaboration with ENYA and SEAoNY. FIGMENT has received significant media attention, and has been in New York Times, Time Out NY, ABC News, PBS, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice, which also named it 2011’s “Best Art Festival.”
FIGMENT NYC is now accepting proposals for the following:
FIGMENT 2012 Interactive Sculpture Garden
FIGMENT is seeking proposals for its summer-long interactive sculpture garden. Projects will be selected based on creativity, interactivity, structural integrity, context and impact, sustainability, feasibility, budget, and community involvement.
Deadline: March 8, 2012
FIGMENT 2012 Artist-Designed Minigolf Course, “Arcade”
Our theme for the 2012 FIGMENT Minigolf Course is “Arcade.” How can the video games, pinball machines, claw cranes, ball tosses, and shooting galleries of an arcade be reinterpreted as minigolf holes? Your challenge is to design and construct a single hole for the FIGMENT 2012 Minigolf Course, following the theme. Consider strategy, interfaces, levels, effects, epic story lines and how a high-tech to low-tech translation might work as you create your proposal.
Deadline: March 8, 2012
City of Dreams Pavilion 2012-2013
FIGMENT has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects NYC Chapter (AIANYC) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to host a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion on Governors Island, the City of Dreams Pavilion, to be built in 2013.
Deadline: April 1, 2012
FIGMENT 2012 NYC Weekend
This year, FIGMENT NYC will take place during the weekend of June 9-10 on Governors Island in New York City. We are seeking proposals for FIGMENT Weekend projects. Projects can include but are not limited to: installations, performances, games, activities, workshops, multimedia, electronic art, music, social experiments, etc. Your FIGMENT Weekend project can be submitted by an individual or collective of individuals. Projects will be selected based on creativity, interactivity, structural integrity, context and impact, sustainability, feasibility, budget, and community involvement.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
Details about all of these opportunities for artists can be found on our website at: http://newyork.figmentproject.
