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February 4, 2011

Award for Event Horizon!

Last year, 31 life-size human figures inhabited park pathways, sidewalks, streets and the skyline of the Flatiron District, as part of Mad. Sq. Art’s exhibition of Event Horizon, the U.S. public art debut of renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley.  One of the most talked about art events of 2010, Event Horizon generated worldwide attention, sparked… Read more

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January 6, 2011

Mad. Sq. Kids: Explore!

The Mad. Sq. Kids: Explore! program lets you and your little ones learn about the park first hand by using fun, self-guided worksheets. Go on a scavenger hunt! Learn about local flora and fauna! Get to know our park monuments! Start your adventure by visiting the playground, where our playground associate will get you started… Read more

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December 30, 2010

A Look at Mad. Sq. Art: 2004 – 2010

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December 7, 2010

Scattered Light in Time Out New York’s 101 Things to do in New York City in the Winter

101 things to do in New York City in the winter – New media artist Jim Campbell’s mesmerizing piece consists of 2,000 flickering LED bulbs that create the illusion of figures and shadows…

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November 19, 2010

Jim Campbell featured in Elle Decor’s November issue

Engineering-minded artist Jim Campbell is the latest to set up shop in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, fusing light and motion in a trio of installations. A colossal matrix of 2,000 LED bulbs—20′ high by 80′ wide—hovers over the Oval Lawn…

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November 8, 2010

New York Magazine Presents the Making of Jim Campbell’s ‘Scattered Light’

At first glance, the hundreds of dangling lightbulbs that make up Jim Campbell’s monumental, three-dimensional Madison Square Park installation Scattered Light seem to flicker at random. Look closer, though, and you’ll soon make out…

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November 1, 2010

Jim Campbell in November issue of Sculpture Magazine

Campbell, who studied electrical engineering and mathematics at MIT, holds more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing – many of which find use in his high-tech artworks. His new commission, Scattered Light, blankets Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn with a 3-d matrix of nearly 2,000 LED lights suspended within a… Read more

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Jim Campbell: New York Magazine

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October 29, 2010

Artnet featuring Scattered Light

If you are going to artist Jim Campbell’s extraordinary installation “Scattered Light” at Madison Square Park in Manhattan, do it as I did, ’round midnight with someone you love. From different perspectives, this expanse of 2,000 randomly blinking white lights turns from a block of romantic ice to a marvelous frieze that projects the shadows… Read more

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October 25, 2010

Jim Campbell featured in ArtDaily.org

Madison Square Park Conservancy presents Scattered Light, a new site-specific public art installation by pioneering new media artist Jim Campbell. Marking the artist’s most ambitious public art project to date, Scattered Light features three installations of orchestrated light incorporating elements of computer programming and high-technology for a public art installation which literally lights up Madison… Read more