The Illuminator

The Illuminator is an art-activist collective comprised of visual artists, educators, filmmakers, and technologists living and working in New York City. The collective has staged hundreds of projection-interventions in public spaces, transforming the street from a space of passive consumption and transit into a site of engagement, conflict, and dialogue. Their work calls attention to the many urgent crises that confront us, in support of the ongoing struggle for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.

The Illuminator is an artist-activist collective committed to social, environmental, and political engagement and transformation. Their political principles help them draw boundaries to guide them on the projects they undertake. They fundamentally value an intersectional approach to justice and liberation: racial, climate, housing, economic, health, immigrant, gender, educational, labor, language, and disability. They believe that true change requires dismantling all systems of oppression.