Artshow: Conflux Festival Sept 14th-17th

Posted on September 6, 2006
Filed Under Art Show, U.S, East Coast |

Glowlab is pleased to announce the upcoming Conflux festival in New York. We’d be happy to have you join us!

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CONFLUX 2006
September 14 – 17, 2006 . Brooklyn
http://confluxfestival.org

Conflux is the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets. Currently in its third year, Conflux will take place September 14 – 17th in Brooklyn. Over 80 artists from across the US and countries including Canada, UK, Spain, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Australia will come to Williamsburg to present projects including experimental walking, biking, boat and public-transport tours; street games and tech workshops; mobile broadcasts, performances and temporary installations.

Highlights include:

– Street art tour by Streetsy and the Graffiti Research Lab – Human-scale Othello game on the streets of Williamsburg – Museum tours by the City Reliquary – Mobile art installation in a truck by the Rider Project – Urban tourism mash-up of New York and Baghdad – Audio bus tour by The New York Society for Acoustic Ecology [NYSAE] with members of free103.9 – 24 hour road trip through the 5 boroughs – Over a dozen multimedia presentations by noted artists and writers, including the Miss Rockaway Armada crew and author Adam Greenfield – Alice Arnold’s “To Be Seen” street art film screening – Free money hidden in public space by artist Sal Randolph – Mark Tribe’s historic protest speech re-creation – Student projects and workshops from NYU’s ITP program – Events all four nights of Conflux

Conflux headquarters:
McCaig-Welles Gallery . 129 Roebling Street . Williamsburg
open 10am – 7pm.

Conflux is free and open to the public. Additional background information and press release are here: http://confluxfestival.org/about.php

Conflux is produced by Glowlab: http://glowlab.com

For further information, please contact us: http://confluxfestival.org/contact.php

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