video_dumbo was an annual festival of international contemporary moving image, as well as a large-scale exhibition, and a platform for multimedia live performance. Curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy.
The 2011 edition was held on September 23rd – 25th, 2011, in Dumbo, Brooklyn as part of the 9th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival.
The 2011 full program of screenings can be seen here:
http://www.videodumbo.org/11-festival-program.html
video_dumbo took place in Dumbo, Brooklyn from 2005 until 2013. Throughout this time, we presented artists such as John Smith, Yang Zhenzhong, Christian Jankowski, and Basma Alsharif. next to prominent New York artists such as Tony Conrad, Ken Jacobs, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Shelly Silver, and Sharon Hayes, amongst many others. Some artists grew with the festival like Rashaad Newsome, Jon Rafman or Andrew Norman Wilson who showed their very first works here.
video_dumbo was presented in collaboration with the Dumbo Art Center (DAC) until its final edition in 2013 in Chelsea, Manhattan, in collaboration with Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology.