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brooklyn in color on flickr blogOctober 14th, 2006

The Brooklyn in Color exhibit made an appearance in the Flickr Blog– appropriately, since the flickr photography site was instrumental in making the exhibit happen!

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brooklyn in color in gothamistSeptember 23rd, 2006

…a much-needed splash of color for commuters

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fluxbox reviewed in RailJune 12th, 2006

There’s a nice review of the Fluxbox in the June issue of the Brooklyn Rail.

The FluxBox, which was on view at the Flux Factory in Queens from March 25 to April 29, triggered a greater feeling of suspense than your everyday automata. Not because it was a room-sized version of something that usually fits in your hand, but because the only visible part of the box from the entrance was the crank, and the crank was wired to a kosher pickle. more…
- Bethany Ryker

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minireview of fluxbox in New YorkerApril 24th, 2006

GALLERIES-QUEENS: 'FLUXBOX' - Flux Factory offers a taste of authentic contemporary bohemianism, with a collective of seventeen-odd artists living in a warrenlike loft near the railroad tracks (and next to a Korean megachurch) and creating work together.  The current project, 'FluxBox,' is a room-size music box that uses homemade and found instruments--everything from an old boot striking wood to an accordion suspended from the ceiling--to tinkle, wheeze, and bellow out versions of one simple tune (written by the project's organizer, Stefany Anne Golberg).  The effect is somewhere between Kurt Schwitter's Merzbau and Tim Hawkinson's sculptural constructions, without the novelty of Schwitters's found objects or the artless sophistication of Hawkinson's machines.  Through April 29.  (Flux Factory, 38-38 43rd St., Long Island City.  718-707-3362.)
–The New Yorker, April 24, 2006

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john schaefer interviews stefany golberg about the fluxbox on wnyc’s soundcheckApril 20th, 2006

Listen to it on wnyc.org

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fluxbox preview in Time OutMarch 23rd, 2006

Time Out New York has a nice preview of our fluxbox installation.

Music boxes are typically small, delicate items, but imagine creating one large enough to walk through. The Flux Factory, a Queens-based nonprofit exhibition space and artists collective/habitat, has done just that with its latest installation, FluxBox. Instead of a standard “tooth and comb” apparatus, however, seven acoustic sculptures produce the show’s simple 16-bar melody. more…

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sketching device and artbots in NY TimesMay 25th, 2002

Read about the first Artbots exhibit and Sketching Device #1 in the New York Times!

Most entries fell into the category that Mr. Galanter called ”punk-rock robotics,” emphasizing cheap components and a playful do-it-yourself approach.

Ranjit Bhatnagar said he had torn apart his stereo speakers to build Sketching Device No. 1, which used patterns of vibration to move pens across a sheet of paper. David Webber’s AO2000, which visitors picked as their favorite, made chaotic music with a blender, an adding machine, two laptop computers, an old television and some coffee cans, among other things. Symet Studio, by Stefan Prosky, a family of simple solar-powered robots that left trails of dots as they hopped around, was voted best of show by the robot-builders.

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innovative instruments reviewed in philadelphia weeklyJuly 12th, 1995

Musical Objects/Sculptural Sound: Strange music fills Nexus this month.  It flows irregularly from the cone of frozen pebbles dripping into Mineko Grimmer's North American Woods-Ash.  It rattles from the forest of more than 20 whimsically floral sculptures Dan Senn has scattered on the floor.  It rings from the pots and pans deftly played by Wm. Houck in his Wearever Blues AV Black Box.  Most of the sculpture in the Innovative Instruments exhibit can be played by gallery visitors, though some pieces are presented with recordings which give an idea of how they might sound.  It's amusing to compare Robert Roesch's severely angular Moonharp to Cynthia Norton's loopy Bread Badmitton Blues Rackets.  In a video recording her performance on one of her sculpture/instruments, Norton (in the persona of Ninne Naive) is refreshingly unpretentious--as is the best work in this small show.  Thru July 28 at Nexus, 137 N. Second St.  --Gerald Brown
Philadelphia Weekly

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