TIMES SQUARE — Battle a Kraken, explore a shipwreck and tour a lost civilization next month — without leaving Midtown.
Between 11:57 p.m. and midnight each night in July, Times Square’s billboards will stream “Voyage,” a video installation that takes viewers “on an adventure deep under the sea.”
“With a whimsical and somewhat Victorian feel, ‘Voyage’ combines ancient maritime legends, man’s eternal struggle with nature and current environmental concerns with our everlasting thirst for discovery,” Times Square Arts and the Times Square Advertising Coalition said in a release.
Red Hook-based artist Beau Stanton, whose work is “heavily informed by historic ornamentation, religious iconography and classical painting,” created the piece, which is this month’s “Midnight Moment.”
“The main idea for 'Voyage' was to create an immersive experience where the viewer feels like they have just wandered into another world by visually submerging Times Square below the sea,” Stanton said in a statement.
More than a dozen screens in the Crossroads of the World will broadcast the project.
“Brilliantly, the artist takes our everyday place and turns it inside out to take us on a mythical voyage in which we battle a kraken and the high seas through a Victorian graphic lens,” Times Square Alliance President Tim Tompkins said in a statement.