Please Note: Syracuse Stage is currently undergoing interior renovations during the summer months, and the UVP screens will temporarily be removed until renovations are completed. 

Syracuse Stage hosts one of four Urban Video Project (UVP) installations planned for the Connective Corridor.  UVP is a public arts and cultural initiative bringing art and community together in a dynamic series of video displays on the sides of buildings in Syracuse.  UVP marks the first major installation on the Connective Corridor, and UVP Stage presents a large-scale visual installation in the windows of the Regent Theater Complex, 820 E. Genesee St.

An initiative of Syracuse University with technology partner Time Warner Cable, the display will be active daily from dusk to 11 p.m. throughout the year. The display uses new LED technology covering a surface area of 300 square feet. Approximately 5,000 individual lights hang on transparent curtains, each comprised of a red, green and blue LED, for an approximate total of 15,000 bulbs capable of producing 16 million color combinations. The result is a carefully controlled sequence timed to the millisecond that creates moving images.

Images include artwork created by students and faculty in SU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) and Educated Guess Work, an interactive design firm from Philadelphia that is providing project management and support to UVP.  UVP will hold workshops for local artists and art educators interested in providing artwork; dates and times will be posted on this website closer to the event.

First established in 2007 by the student artist team Avalanche Collective in VPA’s Department of Transmedia, UVP has developed into one of the first permanent series of urban projection installations in the United States. Several UVP venues along the Corridor are being developed, including the Monroe Building at 333 E. Onondaga St., the Onondaga Historical Association building at 321 Montgomery St., and the John H. Mulroy Civic Center Theatres at Oncenter.