Brooklyn is a breathing, morphing container full of beauty, culture, potential, neglect, and rich sociological history. We create a story inspired by our journey around the physical and ephemeral edge traveled by foot, bicycle, automobile, boat, and subway. Through this exercise, we identify and own the territory from the outside in. Documenting both similarities and unique qualities of the outlying neighborhoods creates a new map. This map, transformed into an immersive non-linear video installation, becomes a visceral experience of the borough's perimeter bringing the viewer through transitions of color and light. The result is a revelation of Brooklyn's hidden secrets: moments only encountered by those who desire to dig deep.

http://www.BrokenLandNow.com

The Brooklyn Bridge is an example of anachronistic technology. This video celebrates it, using present and past pans of the Brooklyn Bridge at three different altitudes, as metaphor and monument. Two films in this video are panoramas from the Library of Congress's collection of early motion pictures. They are silent, but, another piece of anachronistic technology, a late 19th-century pipe organ, is overdubbed onto live audio and other early sonic material. The center video, intended as a live camera feed, has live audio. Change and continuity are suggested: up/down, across/below, past/future in the circular motion of the cameras.

http://jaredlamenzo.com

Recently, a mysterious 'woman in white' has been spotted at various toxic hot spots along the Brooklyn waterfront. Could this be Saint Agnieska, the former Brooklyn resident who died so many years ago on the shore of the East River? Through the testimonies of residents and interviews with community activists, this 'documentary' traces Agnieska's journey: searching for evidence of her presence and exploring the sites where she's appeared.

http://www.kimberlysimpson.com

'...and the flying Island being raised to a convenient Height, the Verge directly over me...' Jonathan Swift 'Guliver's Travels'

http://www.vydavy.com

'Wasted' shows the process of connecting a performance to a particular environment - my own neighborhood - Greenpoint. Greenpoint has a hundred year history of being a toxic waste ground, culminating after oil spills in the 1950's in its being named America's worst urban disaster. Currently of course, the whole neighborhood is undergoing rapid real-estate transformation. In 2004, with other artists, I wanted to make these issues the basis for a live performance at Galapagos. Outdoor on-site performances highlighted specific sites in the neighborhood, and became the gathering and learning points for the ultimate performance. These on-site events provided the basis for this video piece.

Photographs by Scott Ettin, Jake Dobkin, Nate Dorr, Nathan Kensinger

The Revere Sugar Factory was demolished by Thor Equities between December 2006 and March 2007. Set against the background of the first IKEA in Brooklyn, Red Hook Sugar uses images of the decayed sugar refinery and footage of the razed site seen through the focus of a dancer's form.

Global Flittr gathers Twitter messages from around the world and displays them in a way that immerses the viewer in an environment that reflects communication in the 21st century. The end effect will show a world that appears to be shrinking in size and time due to the modern communication technology that permeates through the lives of people around the world.

Visual/audio mix of the historical 2008 election night in Brooklyn

'Elegy' developed out of an improvisational Video Theremin piece that was presented as part of Synaesthesia month at Issue Project Room in March of '08. It has been refined into a tribute to a dear friend and neighbor - Elvira (Vera) Furey, an 88 year old born-and-bred Brooklyn Italian gal who lived across the hall from me for over twenty years. Early in 2008 she had a terrible, freak accident and was engulfed in flames in her apartment. I and another neighbor heard her screams and together we put her out and got her help. Sadly, she died the following day. Vera loved life, loved Brooklyn, and in a celebration of her energy and joie de vivre i conceived 'Elegy', a deeply emotional tribute to a fine human being and a dear, true friend.

http://www.skeletonhome.com

'Coney Island Moves' is a real time video performance environment combining prerecorded on location video with interactive 3d video animation that uses the subject of the rides in Coney Island and the waves of the ocean behind it as imagery. I will create a sensory field of visual movement that relates to the transcendental aspects of whirling rides and inviting waves and that constitute much of the coney island experience. Spinning and immersion are sensations that people are drawn to.. and are elements of various spiritual practices. Coney Island provides everyone the opportunity to experience those feelings in the same location . Is there a spiritual element to that combination... perhaps but there is certainly a dynamic visual context in the contrasting motions and their seductive qualities.

http://www.pblehrer.com

A Tiny Patch of Sky. is a video feedback loop using 16mm film of a skyline that will soon be imposed on by a 23-storey luxury condo apartment being constructed off the park.

http://www.karlmendonca.com

The project is an interactive installation using 8 screens to tell a story about two people looking for each other. The object is to make visitors to experience a new way of seeing and hearing.

An interactive video installation that takes you on a unique trip of the daily lives of eight strangers. Come in, walk around, travel through time, make some new friends. Club Hello provides an atypical multimedia experience each time you step in. Rearrange time any way you want in the virtual world of Club Hello by taking a stroll through the physical world. Everyone's presence counts and changes the timeline. Come here, you, yea you, I'm talking to you; come to Club Hello.