news and announcements
I’m participating in the Response to Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International Conceived in the Mood of Ambivalence over at Flux Factory. It’s going to be a strange and wonderful show. The opening party will be on Friday Dec. 1, 7-10pm.
More pictures after the opening!
Listen to music and live audio from the gallery thusly
Wheeze “Misericordiam” (new name! “Cordy” for short.), the hovering accordion from the Fluxbox project, will be groaning and heaving at the Artbots 2006 NYC show. As the ArtBots page says:
ArtBots is very happy to announce a regional NYC show as part of the science+art festival 2006 this fall. The show will feature works old and new by eight New York artists who have appeared in previous ArtBots shows.
When:
Thursday-Sunday November 9-12, 2006, Noon-6pm
Opening reception Thursday November 9th, 6-8pmWhere:
Location One
26 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand)
New York City!How much:
$$$FREE$$$
Come see wheeze and a bunch of other marvelous art machines!
I’ll be presenting Lev, the theremin-playing robot, at the AUTO+MATOS show at New York University on Thursday, Oct. 19. Come see singing, dancing, performing robots! Best of all, it’s free!
Behold sensational innovations in the fields of movement, science, and art in an evening of noise, high impact dance, and robotics. Visitors are encouraged to interact with robots, experimenting with noise and paint, and to observe the vigorous and propellent dance of STREB.
– from the AUTO+MATOS web site
The exhibition will take place the evening of Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 6:30pm in the Eisner Lubin Auditorium of the NYU Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor). Get tickets at the door or from NYU Ticket Central.
An exhibit of some of my Brooklyn photos has been installed in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue subway station through the MTA’s Arts for Transit program. The exhibit is open 24 hours a day through 2007 for the price of a subway ride, so go take a look!
after a few years of neglect, I finally relaunched moonmilk.com today! See the about page for a bit of moonmilk history.
I attended the Sketching in Hardware conference, ably organized by Judith, Mike, and Liz. My presentation was about being a cheapskate. Also I got to see the Wienermobile.
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
SD#1 got a gig at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA:
Art Meets Science, May 18, 2006
My class’s band Mister Resistor played a noisy and inspiring gig at the Flux Factory tonight.
The sketching machine was exhibited as part of the Robotix’s Festival at Parc d’aventures scientifiques, a Belgian science museum.
See all the other installations at the Robotix’s site
Our massive musical installation, fluxbox, was up at the Flux Factory from March 25th to April 29th.
[more details to come]
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…