Christina Ray

Conflux 2008 Website

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Please visit our new site for Conflux 2008. We’ll post submissions info soon and full festival information as it becomes available.

Conflux 2008 Dates Announced

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Conflux 2008 will take place September 11–14 in New York. This will be our 5th anniversary [!!!] and we have exciting plans in the works. We’ll open submissions in the early spring. If you’d like to volunteer or intern with us, don’t be shy. We look forward to seeing you in the fall!

Conflux goes to Rome

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Conflux is taking a trip to Rome for the Enzimi 2007 urban art festival, organized to bring interactive, creative projects to the city in support of a new multimedia arts center planned for this building, the Ex Mattatoio di Testaccio. From November 28–December 02, Conflux Founder/Director Christina Ray will be there along with Conflux 2007 participants MTAA, Dana Solano, Dan Hyberts, Calvin Johnson and Scott Knowles to present new versions of the Super Slow 5k, Theft and Rescue and the Urban Disorientation Game.

Conflux 2008!

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Coming up soon we’ll have information on Conflux 2008, including the dates and how to apply. In the meantime, for news about Glowlab and Conflux, please join our mailing list.

By the way, if you’ve written us asking about the video documentation of Conflux 2007 presentations, we’re working on the final editing touches and  will have video available soon. Stay tuned.

This Friday- coworking and happy hour(s) at The Change You Want To See

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Our wonderful friends and Conflux 2007 hosts The Change You Want To See are throwing a happy hour this Friday to raise awareness about co-working and find new collaborators. Come check it out — Glowlab will be there!

“Break free from hourly coffee purchases and grab a slice of Williamsburg’s alternative working community – co-working at The Change You Want to See - a cafe-like community and collaboration space for programmers, net-artists, online organizers and independents. These types of grassroots coworking spaces are popping up all over the world, from San Francisco, to Paris, to a few here in New York City… ”

Williamsburg Co-Working Open House and Happy Hour(s)
@ The Change You Want To See Gallery and Convergence Stage
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211

Friday, September 21
10-5pm Open House
5-7pm Happy Hour(s)

Thank you!

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Big thanks to the artists who presented fantastic projects at Conflux this year and to everyone who came out to participate. Our volunteers and partners made it all possible and we’re honored to have been able to work with such a great team this year.

Here’s some recent coverage of the festival:

Wall Street Journal:
The Frontier of High-Tech Art: WSJ.com’s Andy Jordan reports from New York’s Conflux Festival, where iPods monitor air quality and cyclists create movies by pedaling.
September 17, 2007

New York Times: Art & Design
In Brooklyn, a Confluxion Junction
By Martha Schwendener
September 18, 2007
Now in its fourth year, the Conflux festival, centered mostly on the intersection of Havemeyer Street and Metropolitan Avenue, offered everything from audio graffiti to surveillance technology.

Check out the Flickr’d photos from Conflux, and if you have pictures of your own, add them and tag them conflux2007.

We look forward to keeping in touch with everyone in the Conflux community throughout the year. Do contact us with news and updates on your projects, and we hope to see you again in 2008.