Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Environment 

Mixed Media Performance and Installation

Installation: 26 x 16 x 10 ft.
Performance: 45-50 min.

Created with support from the St. Ann’s Warehouse, City Arts Corps. NY. , Wavefarm NY., and the Henson Foundation NY.

Presented in the 50th st. Columbus Circle Subway Mall, New York, NY. 

Audio score composed and performed live by Sean Petell

2021


Buena Vista: The Audio Visual Environment was an immersive, multimedia public art installation created onsite within a storefront retail space at the Columbus Circle 59th St. Subway Station in New York, NY. The installation and performance space operated for one month as funded by a grant via the City Arts Corps, NY. 

The video projections in the installation were sourced from video cameras fixed upon homemade plexiglas dioramas. This signal was altered with analog video filters and image generators, using the video itself as a sculptural medium. Free weekly performances were held on Sunday evenings for the commuting public.






This project is made possible, in part, with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant partnership of the New York State Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program and Wave Farm, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, the St. Ann’s Warehouse, the Henson Foundation, and a City Arts Corps Grant.