VIDEO ART EXHIBIT PROJECTED
ONTO THE BQE AND BRIDGES OF DUMBO.
Where else can you see trucks, taxis and subways passing by atop world class video art!
Join us for beauty, whimsy and humanity — on display for all to enjoy.
This project is made possible with support from the New York City Department of Transportation and NYC DOT ART, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and Leo Kuelbs Collection.
2025 EXHIBITS AT A GLANCE
VOLUME FOUR: PUPS AT PLAY
March 5 – 30, 2025
Presented with Photoville in collaboration with Kholood Eid, Matthew Gilbertson, and Professor
VOLUME FIVE: SMx30 OUTDOORS
April 2 – 27, 2025
Presented with Smack Mellon
VOLUME SIX: UNEXPECTED DELIGHT!
May 1 – 25, 2025
Presented with Gabriel Barcia-Colombo + Gaduate Students in the NYU ITP Program
PRESENTED IN THESE THREE LOCATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY:
VOLUME SIX: UNEXPECTED DELIGHT
MAY 1 – MAY 25, 2025
ON VIEW WEDNESDAYS – SUNDAYS FROM DUSK – 11PM.
UNEXPECTED DELIGHT
Presented with Gabriel Barcia-Colombo + Gaduate Students in the NYU ITP Program
Volume Six features a collection of made-for-Dumbo works by a cohort of students in the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), taught by the mixed-media artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo. Students applied to the class Special Outdoor Video Art: Projection in Dumbo, specifically to create content for Volume 6, and were chosen by Gabriel along with the Dumbo Improvement District.
Collectively, the works created in 2025 play with the theme of “unexpected delight”, exploring both medium and place in ways that will surprise passersby, encouraging us to once again marvel at the spaces we occupy, and at the infrastructure we share those spaces with.
Artists: to be announced
Run time: to be confirmed
VOLUME FIVE: SMX30 OUTDOORS
APRIL 2 – APRIL 27, 2025
ON VIEW WEDNESDAYS – SUNDAYS FROM DUSK – 11PM.
SMX30 OUTDOORS
Presented with Smack Mellon
Coinciding with the organization’s 30th anniversary year, Smack Mellon’s contribution to the Dumbo Projections Project is a nod to their past and future with video works by the Barnstormers and Juan José Cielo. For six weeks in 2001, the Barnstormers, a roving collective of artists, created a rapidly changing, multi-layered painting on the floor of Smack Mellon’s gallery. Titled No Condition is Permanent, the exhibition was documented only by a time-lapse camera. This video documentation will be shown simultaneously across four screens in Dumbo’s Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park. Juan Jose Cielo is a current resident of Smack Mellon’s Artist Studio Program, which provides early-career artists with studio space and resources in order to establish their practices. On either side of the Dumbo Archway, Smack Mellon will show two video works that Cielo made during his 2017 residency at The Mars Desert Research Station, a full-scale analogue research facility that simulated the conditions of Mars in the Utah Desert.
(Location 1 & 2) Juan José Cielo, Runway: From the Mars Desert Research Station, 2017. Digital Video, no sound, 1920 x 1080, TRT 05:24 min.
(Location 1 & 2) Juan José Cielo, Does it work on Mars?, 2017. Digital Video, sound (shown here silent), TRT 04:45 min.
(Location 3) Barnstormers, No Condition is Permanent, 2001. Time-lapse video, TRT 38:57 min. (shown in 4 concurrent sections for this presentation).
VOLUME FOUR: PUPS AT PLAY
MARCH 5 – MARCH 30, 2025
ON VIEW WEDNESDAYS – SUNDAYS FROM DUSK – 11PM.
PUPS AT PLAY
Presented with Photoville in collaboration with Kholood Eid, Matthew Gilbertson, and Professor.
Volume Four brings the Wet Nose Pawject to Dumbo, showcasing and celebrating the local pups who walk the same sidewalks, ride the same transportation, and sniff the same air as we do. Dogs are as integral to New York City’s culture and community as the people that make up this great city. Whether they are new to the city, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, or born right under the Manhattan Bridge, dogs always find their way to our hearts. Dumbo’s dog community is wonderfully diverse, full of tricks, and always a howling good time – and all are invited to delight in their antics, beauty, and joyful essence on the largest of screens, the BQE and Bridges of Dumbo. “Making dogs happy makes us happy,” says artist Kholood Eid. “We don’t deserve them.”
Artists: Kholood Eid, Matthew Gilbertson, and Professor
Run Time: 6:00 minutes
VOLUME THREE: OUT HERE
MARCH 21 – APRIL 20, 2024
VOLUME TWO: RHYTHMS OF THE CITY
FEBRUARY 15 – MARCH 18, 2024
VOLUME ONE: NATURAL POSSIBILITIES
JANUARY 18 – FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Speculative Geologies & Speculative Geologies (Triptych)
2023, 21:44 minutes
ARTIST BIOS & PRESS STILLS
VOLUME FOUR ARTISTS
Kholood Eid is a documentary photographer, educator and filmmaker based in New York. Regular clients include National Geographic, The New York Times and The New Yorker. In February 2023, Eid—along with husband and fellow photographer/videographer Matthew Gilbertson—launched Wet Nose Pawject as a way to intentionally incorporate more joy and levity in their lives. Their dog Professor, a 14 year old Westie Terrier mix, is LTO—Lead Treats Operator.
Photoville is a New York-based non-profit organization that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of photography for all. Founded in 2011 in Dumbo, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion by ensuring that the artists it exhibits are diverse in gender, class, and race. In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open-air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
VOLUME FIVE ARTISTS
Smack Mellon is a nonprofit arts organization located in Dumbo. It was founded in Dumbo in 1995 and moved to its current location on Washington Street in 2005. Smack Mellon’s mission is to nurture and support emerging, under-recognized mid-career, and women artists in the creation and exhibition of new work by providing exhibition opportunities, studio workspace, and access to equipment and technical assistance for the realization of ambitious projects.
Juan José Cielo (b. 1996, Medellin, Colombia) is a Colombian American artist, based in New York working in painting, photography, and short films. In 2017, Juan was selected as an artist-in-residence with scientists and researchers at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Hanksville, Utah. MDRS is a full-scale analog facility simulating living on Mars that receives partial research funding from NASA. Juan is a graduate of The Cooper Union in New York, with studies at the École nationale supérieure beaux-arts in Paris. His work has been featured in group exhibitions in New York, Bogota, and Miami. His work has been exhibited at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Consulate of Colombia in New York, the Alliance Français in Bogota, and the XVII Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. His work was featured on Univision 41 news and published in National Geographic Traveler magazine, El Heraldo Newspaper and ARTnews.
VOLUME SIX ARTISTS
The NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program is a two-year, full-time graduate program at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where the students explore new forms of communications and expression using interactive media technologies. The program focuses on critical thinking, creative exploration, and the ability to learn how to learn.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo is a mixed-media artist whose work focuses on collections, memorialization, and the act of leaving one’s digital imprint for the next generation. His work takes the form of video sculptures, immersive performances, large-scale projections, and vending machines that sell human DNA. In all of his projects, Gabe explores and plays with the digitization of memories, our changing relationship to technology in society, and the virtual and physical identities we create across platforms