Kinfolk Tech presents Dreaming with the Archives, an augmented reality (AR) exhibition (June 19-August 30) opening at Brooklyn Bridge Park on June 19, featuring artists Olalekan Jeyifous, Hank Willis Thomas, Ari Melenciano, Kiyan Williams, Wangechi Mutu, and Jeremiah Ojo.

Join our volunteer docents for a free walking tour to learn about Kinfolk Tech Foundation’s Dreaming with the Archives exhibition! Tours will show visitors the seven AR monuments throughout the park, helping them to access the art via their devices and sharing their knowledge on the art, artist and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Tours take place twice monthly on Sundays (10:30am) and Tuesdays, with two special debut tours on Saturday, June 21st. View all tour dates here.

All tours meet outside Jane’s Carousel (unless noted otherwise in your confirmation email) and last 60 minutes. Please download the Kinfolk app ahead of the tour to view the art during the tour. Advance registration is required.

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Dreaming with the Archives is a public art exhibition that transforms Brooklyn Bridge Park into a canvas for radical imagination through augmented reality (AR). This groundbreaking exhibition invites visitors to experience digital monuments to Brooklyn’s layered histories — that exist atop and surrounding the park — while engaging with the current landscape and inspiring futures re-dreamed.

As you move through the Park, your mobile device becomes a portal through which to encounter immersive augmented reality monuments created by visionary artists Ari Melenciano, Olalekan Jeyifous, Kiyan Williams, Wangechi Mutu, Jeremiah Ojo, and Hank Willis Thomas. Each of the artists created site-specific artworks to honor the abundant flora, fauna, agriculture, skilled laborers, — enslaved and free — and the sounds that make up the rich cultural history and ecology of Brooklyn and the African diaspora.

​Dreaming with the Archives invites us all to imagine new futures for our public spaces — futures grounded in our shared pasts and radical possibility. Juneteenth 2025 marks the opening of a portal in public space for NYC to engage with our dreams of liberation and the stories powering our collective memory, through the Summer.

​Presented in collaboration with Brooklyn Bridge Park, this exhibition marks the inaugural moment of Kinfolk Tech’s year-long, multi-city initiative, Dreaming with the Archives, activating imaginations and preserving stories of place through art and technology across NYC, New Orleans, and Philadelphia.

Free and open to the public. Download the Kinfolk app and visit Brooklyn Bridge Park to experience the full exhibition, June 19 – August 30, 2025.