"Come on Franz. You don't come here to be sad. People come here to be happy, to dance and laugh. Understand?"

"Yeah, but . . . the world . . ."

"What do you mean the world? This is the New World. Come on. Let's have a drink."

From Berlin Alexanderplatz, (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany:939 min,1980).

Night is the background against which dream-like fantasies and nocturnal fears are described, where the language is the material of play, and where identity is asserted, celebrated, discarded and extinguished. The city at night is the new world – a world of shifting and ephemeral forms and desire mingled with existential anxiety.

The artists of The New World engage the city's public spaces and arenas on a large scale. They respond to the city at night as simultaneously both subject and medium, adapting the city surfaces for video projections, using its public spaces as sites for sculptural installations and interactive performances, and its landmarks as subjects of digital manipulation. These projects will layer unexpected textures and narratives on familiar concrete and glass, destabilize the authority and the immutability of the architecture, and speak to the dynamic, fugitive experience of living in the city.

— Gordon Hatt