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Tag archive for ‘interact’
TourIna Box
This project will appear in the gallery space of Conflux HQ for the duration of the festival.
Project Description::
TourIna Box is a multimedia, interactive tool used to map a series of destinations that narrate a personal experience. Using audio recording, maps and artifacts the user tells a story that can be passed on and experienced by [...]
Back-to-Back Massager (Free Mobile Massage)
This project will take place near Conflux headquarters throughout the weekend.
Project Description::
The Back-to-Back Massager is a battery powered mobile massaging vest. Instead of massaging the wearer, the electric massagers are pointed outward in order to massage others. The wearer is able to give a massage to others by pressing her back against theirs. [...]
Sit Projects
This outdoor installation will appear in the area around Conflux HQ for the duration of the festival.
Project Description::
Each installation is site specific; utilizing/recycling chairs that have been locally disposed of and arranging them at strategically determined locations.
Pragmatically, this arose from the pressing need for an array of benches/seats at bus and subway stops within New [...]
New York Public Domain (NYPD)
This project will take place in the area around Conflux HQ for the duration of the festival.
Project Description::
Due to all kind of changes in society, the public domain is under a lot of stress. There is almost no room for ‘play’ anymore and social interaction in the streets is vanishing. One of the main reasons [...]
Cartography of Protest and Social Changes
This panel discussion will take place at Conflux HQ on Sunday, September 14, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Project Description::
The spread of global positioning systems, interactive geolocating tools and social networks have ensured that mapping is even more fashionable than the new black.
New technologies have not just freed us from the curse of impossibly [...]
Open House
This off-site event will take place Saturday, September 13, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the home of Matt Fisher and Todd Cooper, 130 Barrow St #209.
Project Description::
The mission of Open House is to facilitate a temporary coalition of people from various networks of experience, framed in a domestic setting for the simple purpose [...]
Light-Mobs
This scheduled off-site event will begin at Conflux HQ - Zone B on Sunday, September 14, and will run from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
Project Description::
The Light Mobs are actions communicated between their participants in morse code. Using the pocket Lightcoder and sunlight to transmit information. The action performed will be a playful exploration around [...]
Helmet Piece
This scheduled event will appear in and around Conflux HQ on Thursday, September 11, from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
and on Friday, September 12, from 6pm to 7pm on East 10th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
Project Description::
Helmet Piece is an interactive embodied installation. The work is made up of a group of performers outfitted [...]
The Name on the Sign
This scheduled event will take place Saturday, September 13, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. It will begin at Conflux HQ - Zone A.
Project Description::
Walking in a city neighborhood, we pass dry cleaners, pizza parlors, beauty salons, often named for someone. Within a few blocks of Conflux HQ there is Sam’s Falafel, Steve’s Deli [...]
Self-Sustainable Chair
This scheduled off-site event will take place at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street, on Saturday, September 13th, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
Project Description::
Self-Sustainable Chair, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress [...]
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