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Volume Seven of Neighborhood-Wide Video Art Series, Projected Onto the BQE and Bridges of Dumbo
Presented by Team Dumbo, Series is Brooklyn’s Most Expansive Video Art Series Ever
Projections are Viewable Daily
Dumbo, Brooklyn (April 8, 2026) – The upcoming seventh volume of The Dumbo Projection Project — Brooklyn’s largest-scale projection series ever — will be viewable from May 1 to 31 on Wednesdays through Sundays from dusk to 11 pm.
The Dumbo Projection Project, now in its third year and presented by Team Dumbo (the Dumbo Business Improvement District), is a neighborhood-wide, outdoor video art exhibition projected onto Dumbo's most iconic infrastructure, the Manhattan Bridge on the Plaza side, and along the BQE wall in Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward Park.
The Dumbo Projection Project: V7 | Dumbo: Past, Present & Future, launches on May 1 through 31, exploring the community of DUMBO through its history, its present self, or a proposal for the future. In an exciting evolution, all V7 works are interactive, inviting the public to contribute to this vision of Dumbo through games accessible via websites, and even just the flashlight on your smartphone.
On view are:
- SubWave by Ryan Webber, Gwen Goins, and Rafia Santana
SubWave uses the sound and waterfront ecology of DUMBO to re-present the East River’s past. Waves synchronized with the passing subway rise and recede, briefly revealing forgotten histories along the shoreline.
- Have You Eaten Yet? by Justina-Maria Soto, Ceren Eskicirak, Summer Hwang, and Ivan Abogado
Have You Eaten Yet? is a video projection about food, care, and the quiet ways we look after one another. It’s inspired by a simple question often asked by loved ones.
- Shadow Theater by Haoren Zhong, Ivy Jiang, and Zongshuai Zhang
Shadow Theater is an interactive projection where audiences use their phones as virtual flashlights to reveal the journey of a teddy bear. As multiple participants move their lights, different elements emerge as shadows, gradually revealing the full scene. The piece reflects on fleeting encounters and relationships through the bear’s silent travels.
- Behind the Bricks by Michael Culleton, Jaye Du, William Yao, and Seungmin Yeon
Behind the Bricks is an interactive installation that lets you peel back the walls of DUMBO to find out who's really been living there all along. Using your phone, you chip away at a virtual brick facade to uncover video stories from the neighborhood, told naturally by rats. It's absurd, it's a little tender, and it's a love letter to New York and the strange characters that define it.
All four works will be presented in both locations, on a loop. Run time for the full loop to be confirmed.
Volume Seven is presented with Professor Gabriel Barcia-Colombo and graduate students in the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. In this two-year, full-time graduate program at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, students explore new forms of communication and expression using interactive media technologies. The program focuses on critical thinking, creative exploration, and the ability to learn how to learn.
The Dumbo Projection Project will continue annually. The full schedule is available here. Photos available for usage are linked here.
In 2024, Team Dumbo launched The Dumbo Projection Project, an evolution of its previous video art projections programming. Team Dumbo has a long history of pioneering projection art at a monumental scale — including one hundred installments of the popular, single-channel series Light Year, which ran on the First Thursday of every month from 2015 to 2023, and previously the Dumbo Arts Festival, among other projects. Dumbo is home to many of Brooklyn’s storied studio residency programs, including Sharpe Walentas Studio Program and programs at Triangle, A.I.R. Gallery, and Smack Mellon, and to arts organizations including Photoville and St. Ann’s Warehouse, as well as a dozen art galleries and more than 175 artist studios that open annually for Dumbo Open Studios.
"It’s been fascinating to see our V7 artists create work that responds to and plays with Dumbo’s iconic spaces–a giant bridge with the subway running overhead, the BQE with trucks lumbering overhead, and pick up soccer games below,” said Clara Schuhmacher, Senior Vice President of the Dumbo Business Improvement District. “And in an exciting evolution for the Dumbo Projection Project, this show is interactive, inviting each of us to connect with our public spaces in novel ways. It’s an only-in-Dumbo moment!”
"When we activate our infrastructure with interactive artworks, we create a canvas for creativity that brings New York City’s past, present, and future vividly to life,” said NYC DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn. “We thank the DUMBO BID and the talented student artists for bringing the DUMBO Projection Project to life and engaging New Yorkers in new ways.”
V7 will be a featured stop on the First Thursday Gallery Walk Insider Tour on May 7, 2026. RSVP for this Insider Tour will be available here.
This project is made possible with support from the New York City Department of Transportation's art program (NYC DOT Art), the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and Leo Kuelbs Collection.
The schedule is listed below, and additional information on all of the artists and works can be found at dumbo.nyc/projections.
About Team Dumbo / Dumbo Business Improvement District
Team Dumbo, founded in 2006, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing and promoting DUMBO, Brooklyn—a vibrant waterfront neighborhood where historic New York architecture meets contemporary creativity. Team Dumbo advocates on behalf of local businesses, property owners, and residents while animating the public realm through Dumbo Archway programming, public art installations, video art projections, free public WiFi, streetscape maintenance and beautification, and initiatives like the #DUMBOVIP card.
Follow Team Dumbo at @dumbo_brooklyn.
About NYC DOT Art
The New York City Department of Transportation’s art program (NYC DOT Art) partners with organizations and professional artists to present temporary public art on NYC DOT property throughout the five boroughs for up to eleven months. Artists transform streets with colorful murals, dynamic projections, and eye-catching sculptures. A variety of public spaces serve as canvases for temporary arts, including sidewalks, fences, triangles, medians, bridges, jersey barriers, step streets, public plazas, and pedestrianized spaces. Since 2008, NYC DOT Art has produced over 530 temporary artworks citywide. For more information, visit nyc.gov/dotart and @nyc_DOTArt on Instagram.
Photo at top of release by Julienne Schaer
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