The IMC Lab + Gallery
We are a media lab + gallery focused on VR/AR + Mixed Reality in NY City. Since 2001 we've collaborated with artists + coders from 20+ countries, consulted for the Whitehouse + United Nations, producing 100+ exhibitions, education events, enterprise software, apps + interactive experiences.
Our work has been featured in parks, museums, movie theaters, stadiums, concerts, on buildings in Times Square and billboards on 7 continents, as well as in our loft space in Manhattan.
Mission
We support artists + coders who explore imaginative uses for new technologies. Together with these diverse teams of designers, programmers and entrepreneurs, we create new works, disruptive tools and killer apps that enable more open forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, expression and education.
We invest in mixed-media that blends virtual and real, bringing new work to market, seeking artists + coders who mix the tactility of objects with the intangibility of virtual spaces, and building augmented, interactive experiences that link people and inspire magic.
Our goal is to keep fueling the growth of robust start-up ecosystems and creative collectives via new funding models, agile methodologies, unique exhibits in our lab space, research and commercial projects with partner museums, art collectors, investors, Universities, software firms, governments and NGOs.
Background
As a hub for creatives and software developers, The IMC Lab + Gallery aims to connect art, tech research, and education in meaningful ways. Inspired in-part by institutions like Ars Electronica and Tisch ITP, our interdisciplinary studios, lab, and exhibition space, our multimedia shows and live performances, tools and online platforms, all serve to educate and engage the public while helping artists + coders realize new ideas.
See examples of our art-related work below, or visit StudioIMC.com to learn more about our commercial projects, IMC Expositions and other research areas.
The IMC Lab + Gallery endeavors to help artists & engineers develop & showcase new technologies through shows in our New York City loft, in museums, in public spaces & with firms & non-profits all over the globe.
Past Shows at the IMC Lab + Gallery in NYC
2010-2014
Trash Tara: It Starts With An Inhale
Mixed Messages: The New School Media Studies Graduate Student Showcase
Climate Art: New Ways Of Seeing Data
Abstractions: The Films & Paintings of Antonio Ferrera
Masqueraders Are the Ancestors of Protestors: A Celebration of the Mask as a Tool of Social Change
Bohemian Nights 4: The Secret Life of Artists
Lightyears: The Art of Rudie Berkhout
"Harbingers & Psychopomps" |
Multimedia Event for Haiti Circle of Friends |
"Light Years: The Art of Rudie Berkhout" |
"Elastic Identity" |
The 3rd IMC Exposition |
See other shows and talks below, or visit StudioIMC.com, to learn more about events IMC artists and engineers have contributed to since 2001. |
Google Talk
"The 3rd IMC Exposition"
"Beyond TV" at Paley Center for Media
"The 2nd IMC Exposition" at Chelsea Art Museum
"Stereovision" at USF Contemporary Art Museum

"Convergence" at Chelsea Art Museum

Other Events, Awards & Press
Park of the Future in LA Times
Park of the Future proposal for interactive art works in a park in LA finalist in compeitions with UCSD and featured in the LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-grandproposals25dec25,0,7318537.htmlstory
CINE in SOP III
CINE (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment) finalist in SOP III Design Competition with Yale Law School & Harvard Berkman Center.
http://dotank.nyls.edu/SOP/Arch/CINE.html
Infinite City in Book by Jean-Marc Gauthier
Infinite City published in Jean-Marc Gauthier's book, "Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web" (2005).
Interactive 9/11 Sculpture in Rollingstone Magazine
9/11 Sculpture featured in full page photograph in Rolling Stone Magazine, November 22nd issue.
Other Shows, Events, Talks & Distinctions
IMC Solo Shows
2009: 3rd IMC Exposition, StudioIMC Lab & Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006: Beyond TV, The Paley Center for Media (formely the Museum of TV & Radio), New York, NY, USA
2005: 2nd IMC Exposition, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2004: Convergence, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2003: 1st IMC Exposition, Remote Lounge, New York, NY, USA
Group Shows
2011: ABOUT FACE - No Longer Empty, New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York, NY, USA
2010: Digital Art @ Google: We Write This to You From the Distant Future, Google Inc., New York, NY, USA
2010: The World in 100 Years, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
2009: Add-Art, Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA
2009: Artists and Innovators for the Environment, Streaming Museum, 7 Continents
2008: From Fluxus to Media Art, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007: Stereovision, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
2002: 9/11 interactive memorial sculpture "WHY", in large format photograph in 9/11 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Other Distinctions
2006: Park of the Future proposal for interactive art works in a park in LA finalist in compeitions with UCSD and featured in the LA Times.
2005: CINE (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment) finalist in SOP III Design Competition w/ Yale Law School & Harvard Berkman Center.
2004: Infinite City published in Jean-Marc Gauthier's book, "Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web" (2005).
2001: 9/11 Sculpture featured in full page photograph in Rolling Stone Magazine, November 22nd issue.
2003-2009
2009: 3rd IMC Exposition, StudioIMC Lab & Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006: Beyond TV, The Paley Center for Media (formely the Museum of TV & Radio), New York, NY, USA
2005: 2nd IMC Exposition, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2004: Convergence, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
2003: 1st IMC Exposition, Remote Lounge, New York, NY, USA
Visit StudioIMC.com to learn more about our commercial projects, IMC Expositions and other research areas.
Additional Exhibitions
2011: ABOUT FACE - No Longer Empty, New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City, New York, NY, USA
2010: Digital Art @ Google: We Write This to You From the Distant Future, Google Inc., New York, NY, USA
2010: The World in 100 Years, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
2009: Add-Art, Eyebeam, New York, NY, USA
2009: Artists and Innovators for the Environment, Streaming Museum, 7 Continents
2008: From Fluxus to Media Art, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007: Stereovision, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
2002: 9/11 interactive memorial sculpture "WHY", in large format photograph in 9/11 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Other
2006: Park of the Future proposal for interactive art works in a park in LA finalist in compeitions with UCSD and featured in the LA Times.
2005: CINE (Collaborative Immersive Networked Environment) finalist in SOP III Design Competition w/ Yale Law School & Harvard Berkman Center.
2004: Infinite City published in Jean-Marc Gauthier's book, "Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web" (2005).
2001: 9/11 Sculpture featured in full page photograph in Rolling Stone Magazine, November 22nd issue.