October 2010
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Geotagging gets sexy this weekend
Sure, you can check in to Foursquare and so virtually mark that you were someplace, but with Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown’s installation, you can add the personal touch – stories of past sexcapades! The Love Box (free!) iPhone app will let you know when you are near a geotagged location, which will allow you to hear audio stories relating to people’s personal impressions of that place. You can...
Urban logos as hiking map
Consolidated Edison company throughout the urban landscape. ConEd’s presence can be found on personhole covers, hard hats, and cloth covers protecting open subterranean power lines. Public Utility Trail Network plays with these symbols, reimagining them as a trail map. Join the adventure this weekend by following small, temporary signs attached to actual signposts throughout the Lower East Side.
Psychogeographic drift to the Barney Building!
Via Urban Omnibus: http://bit.ly/bK6Yuc
Creative Time Summit and Conflux
Conflux is pleased to announce that we will honor Creative Time Summit tickets for free entry to the Conflux Café on Saturday 10/09 and Sunday 10/10. Bring your Summit ticket and stop by the Conflux Café - a 2 minute walk away - where you can drop in on artist talks and workshops, enjoy complimentary beverages, free wifi, live updates of Conflux events presented by Artlog and more.
September 2010
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Can't make it NYC for Conflux? Watch the action... →
Watch Steve Duncan’s keynote, Reverend Billy’s sermon, Dennis Crowley of Foursquare and Conflux Cafe’s conversation series live on Ustream during the festival!
Hike the island of Mannahatas!
What do you think when you hear the word, “hike?” I’d imagine lots of sky and green things that may or may not be filled with crawling critters are in your mental picture. Certainly not sidewalks. Which is odd; why not hike on sidewalks? Matt Green hosted 20 mile walks across the city once upon a time. Shouldn’t they count as “hikes?”
It’s a tough call....
Conflux wants YOU to volunteer!
Hello Conflux friends! Conflux 2010 is only 2 weeks away! While we’re all very excited about the lineup of presenters and events, we need your help to make sure the whole shebang goes off without a hitch. Volunteer! While the benefits of volunteering are innumerable, allow me to list a few for you anyhow: #1, you get in free (at a whopping $15 for the whole weekend it wouldn’t...
Ashley Pigford does bookish performance art this...
It’s cool how performance art de-commodifies art by removing the lasting physical object, but Ashley John Pigford’s work goes in reverse in a sense. Verbiage, something that defies physicality, is symbolized by beautifully printed cards in the piece Lexicology which will be performed at Conflux on October 9 and 10. Tricia Treacey will be collaborating on this with the assistance of...
WatchYou know those great little desktop gardens with waterfalls making nice, soothing sounds? Imagine being able to play with the sound on one of those. And you have the Tone Garden. The Tone Garden will be among the fabulous interactive projects at Conflux this October, don’t miss it!
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Soundwalk will perform Ulysses Syndrome live at...
In the fall of 2009 the Soundwalk collective embarked on a journey aboard an old gaff-rigged sailboat equipped with scanners and aerial antennae for a sound odyssey recording the hertzian frequencies along the shores of the Mediterranean basin. Soundwalk continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 miles around the boat while close to shore and far...
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August 2010
5 posts
Psychogeographic tour guides and Conflux 2010...
The Stories in Reserve series released its first volume earlier this month, and one of our Conversation and Skillshare presenters has a tour in this volume! Ricardo Miranda Zuniga presented the http://votemos.us/ project for last year’s Conflux Festival, and we’re excited to welcome him back to Conflux 2010.
Stories in Reserve are the Lonely Planets of the psychogeographic world. As...
Submissions CLOSED
aaaand we are done taking submissions for Conflux 2010! Stay tuned for deets on the exciting folks who will be investigating, acting and transmitting with us.
All the cool kids are doing it
Submitting to Conflux 2010, that is. And you only have three days left to do it in. Just look at all the good company you’ll be in…
Mr. Jason Eppink! You may have seen his Pixelator turning vaguely annoying video screens on subway stops into mesmerizing artistic distraction a couple of years ago. Go skim his back catalogue: http://jasoneppink.com/
Mr. Tom Peyton and Friends! This...
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WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
At Conflux 2009 you turned your Probability performance into a workshop which introduced participants to the ways of Google Earth pro, Google Sketchup and the nuances of a successful flythrough—so what did they come up with?
WWKSF: Since we started working on Probability about a year ago we’ve been keeping our eyes open for other people using Google Earth as a glorified...
Steve Duncan is Conflux 2010's keynote speaker
Artist, historian and urban spelunker Steve Duncan will be giving a keynote talk October 8 in the auditorium at Conflux HQ.
Steve’s photography explores the hidden side of quotidian urban life, taking his audience to the forgotten spaces of New York, Paris, Rome and beyond. As of late you may have caught him talking about the Paris catacombs over at Flux Factory.
Beyond making pretty...
July 2010
4 posts
Conflux Festival Submissions are now Open!
Conflux proposals must be submitted by August 15 ($10 administrative fee). All proposals will be judged based on artistic merit, originality, and feasibility. Check the FAQ for guidelines and details.
This year’s festival is based on themes of INVESTIGATION, ACTION and TRANSMISSION. Conflux participants will transform New York’s East Village into a laboratory for creative experimentation and...
Marc Horowitz
At Conflux 2009 how did you and your workshop participants decide what was the definitive commercial for NYC? MH: Anyone who wanted to participate in the making of a commercial for NYC met outside the Barney building at NYU and we brainstormed ideas. Collectively we came up with the concept, then immediately went out and shot it, and edited that evening. It’s not the best thing I’ve...
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Jason Eppink
So last year, you gave visitors an intro to urban alchemy, the transmogrification of common public infrastructure into rare moments of unauthorized culture. Did your group create or discover any urban alchemy? What inspired you to make the first pixelator?
JE: I focused on developing a way of seeing, so we didn’t actually transmogrify anything during our walk, but we did brainstorm a lot...
April 2010
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Conflux Festival 2010 is coming! →