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TODAY is Flux Factory’s Open Studios on Governors Island. Our last event this season on Flux Island, we’ll be closing ou...
11/02/2024

TODAY is Flux Factory’s Open Studios on Governors Island. Our last event this season on Flux Island, we’ll be closing out our fourth year celebrating our beloved resident community. Explore the work of 10 artists, our season-end exhibition and Island Luminaria Two.

Participating artist post 3/3.

, originally from western North Carolina, US, is an artist, composer, and curator currently based in Philadelphia, PA. Will graduated in 2022 with a Master of Fine Arts from UPenn and received the Sprintz Prize and Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship award. Will is currently a Master’s level Thesis Advisor at NYU’s Integrated Design and Media program. Will’s work is about urgent state changes: physical, emotional, political, and environmental. Often working with historical and site specificity, Will works with many mediums to convey conceptual ideas, but returns most often to three: Sound, Sculpture, and Food.

Daria Orlova is an trancedisciplinary artist from Murmansk. At the beginning of her artistic activity, Daria built total utopian installations, placing her works and the viewer there as direct participants in the interaction process. Now her practice pays more attention to situativeness, invisible choreography and mistakes. Total installations have become routes. The artist tries to fix the movement of thoughts, bodies and their agents by drawing with her eyes closed, moving away from an open dialogue with the artistic process, turning off one of the senses.

Lera Lerner (b. 1988, Leningrad) is an artist, curator, and mediator based in Paris. Through participatory projects, she investigates the paradoxical nature of expectations, the energy of side effects, the ethics of lying, suppressed desires, distracting maneuvers, and the possibilities of interspecific and cross-disciplinary communication.

1-3 PM: Lera Lerner invites you to a participatory performance with the Non-Clairvoyant Tarot Deck

3 PM: Daria Orlova and will owen will be performing a sound composition with a collaboratively created sculpture. The sculpture itself is meant to perform on its own and collaborate with Daria and will.

Join us on November 2 for Flux Factory’s Open Studios on Governors Island. Our last event this season on Flux Island, we...
11/01/2024

Join us on November 2 for Flux Factory’s Open Studios on Governors Island. Our last event this season on Flux Island, we’ll be closing out our fourth year celebrating our beloved resident community. Explore the work of 9 artists, our season-end exhibition and Island Luminaria Two.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS (2/3)

(1) is a Jamaican-American interdisciplinary artist living and working in NYC.  Her work often explores site-specificity through performance and installation art while investigating colonial histories pertaining to her Afro-Caribbean, Asian, and European heritage. Lyn-Kee-Chow’s work has been shown internationally.

(2) is an American artist engaging with communications infrastructure to inform a speculative future. Their current project, Itinerant Signal Institute, examines the effect of local emissions on global climate change, and an ethnography to denote the changing of seasons.

(3) is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist interested in representing worlds that feel at once utopic and neptunian. In creating spaces that reflect boundless fantasy and somber interiority, Zack is possessed by the idea that emphasizing imaginal spaces can reawaken narratives for alternative futures. 

(4) Why is the sky blue water wet? These are things that Sally Beauti Twin, the world’s most vacuous artist, hasn’t considered yet…but plans to do so soon. Artists make the dreams that make the future. In the future Sally wants  some dreams. Like bubbles, her art levitates viewers to empyrean realms. Like other trans artists she paints with a love of nature and tonalist fantasy.

Our Island Luminary 2 exhibition runs through 11/5 at Flux Factory, Colonels Row 404A, Governors Island. The show is ope...
10/20/2024

Our Island Luminary 2 exhibition runs through 11/5 at Flux Factory, Colonels Row 404A, Governors Island. The show is open Fri, Sat, Sun 1-5 or by appointment.

Today is the day! FLAMING CREATURE CRAWL 5-7:30 ✨⭐️🪲🪲Governors Island, Colonels Row 404Come at 2 to make a costume! Isla...
10/19/2024

Today is the day! FLAMING CREATURE CRAWL 5-7:30 ✨⭐️🪲🪲
Governors Island, Colonels Row 404
Come at 2 to make a costume!
Island Luminaria Two is on view weekends through Nov 3, 1-5 pm

THIS SATURDAY marks our second sunset parade! The parade rolls 10/19 at 6 pm from our Governors Island house, 404A Colon...
10/17/2024

THIS SATURDAY marks our second sunset parade! The parade rolls 10/19 at 6 pm from our Governors Island house, 404A Colonels Row. Pick an island species or celestial body to represent, and come check out our corresponding Island Luminaria 2 show at the house beforehand! 300 lanterns, fabulous costumes 👀👀✨… You won’t want to miss!

One week until our October 19 sunset parade! Come by our Governors Island house this weekend and build a costume or lumi...
10/12/2024

One week until our October 19 sunset parade! Come by our Governors Island house this weekend and build a costume or luminary: 404A Colonels Row. Dig into our Island Luminaria 2 art show and our brilliant neighbors shows too!

The parade rolls at 6pm Saturday 10/19 and you'll want ro be there early to get into this harp and marimba 300 lantern propelled procession. Pick an island species or celestial body to represent. Secretly you can drop in and make something any day this week - give us a DM, we'll be there building this up

OPENING SATURDAY! 🦩 𝕀𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝟚 🦩Oct 5 - Nov 3, 2024Curated by  Join for ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕖 + 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝕄𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕤 — S...
10/04/2024

OPENING SATURDAY!

🦩 𝕀𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝟚 🦩
Oct 5 - Nov 3, 2024
Curated by

Join for ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕖 + 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝕄𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕤 — Saturday & Sundays, October 5, 6, 12, and 13 from 1-5 PM—where you can create light art and costumes for the 𝔽𝕝𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 ℂ𝕣𝕒𝕨𝕝 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝟚, a nighttime luminary parade on October 19, 5-7:30 PM.

More information 🔗 on the link in our bio!

Image: Flamingo costume

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📯 Opening Oct 5 📯𝕀𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝟚 Curated by Sally Beauti Twin On view: October 5 - November 3, 2024Hours: Sat&Sun, 1-...
09/29/2024

📯 Opening Oct 5 📯
𝕀𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝟚
Curated by Sally Beauti Twin

On view: October 5 - November 3, 2024
Hours: Sat&Sun, 1-5 PM
Flux Factory, 404A Colonels Row
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𝕀𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝟚 🦩 is a group art show composed of art representing species of Governors Island, emitting light or depicting luminescent bodies (sun, moon, stars). Rooms within Colonels Row House 404A will have art categorically by room (costumes, projections, celestial bodies painting and sculpture room, fluorescent art room, lamp art room, neon art room, etc).

ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕖 + 𝕃𝕦𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕒 𝕄𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕡𝕤 — Saturday & Sundays, October 5, 6, 12, and 13 from 1-5 PM, where you can create light art and costumes for the forthcoming 𝔽𝕝𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 ℂ𝕣𝕒𝕨𝕝 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝟚, a nighttime luminary parade. Lanterns will be held depicting the flora, fauna and celestial bodies of Governors Island accompanied by quiet acoustic music. For the fifth time in three years, we will parade maximum quality art of ecological reverence.

Image: Flamingo costume

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𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌: 𝑨 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 
October 1, 7 PM
📍RSVP to info@fluxfactory.org
Join our Russian residents & US hosts in a conversatio...
09/28/2024

𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌: 𝑨 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 
October 1, 7 PM
📍RSVP to [email protected]
Join our Russian residents & US hosts in a conversation about A New Future collaborative residencies. 

✨ABOUT A NEW FUTURE✨
Flux Factory is excited and honored to welcome thirteen Russian artists and curators to the United States for month-long residencies with US artists and arts institutions across the US in September and October. Titled A New Future, this residency brings together twenty-four US and Russian cultural practitioners in a hybrid, year-long program to discuss common concerns about our global future, build transnational relationships, and plan future collaboration.

Four of the artists and curators will be residents of Flux, learning the arts ecosystem with New York-based hosts Kendal Henry (Assistant Commissioner of Public Art, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs), Allen Frame (Artist), Clarinda Mac Low (Executive Director, Culture Push), and Will Owen (Artist). Other hosts across the US include:

• Joshua Goode
Artist — Fort Worth
• Tavia LaFollette
Art Up — Baltimore
• Tom Pearson
Global Performance Studio — New York
• Lisa Marr
Echo Park Film Center — Los Angeles
• Farrah Karapetian
Los Angeles / San Diego
• Clare Dolan
Museum of Everyday Life — Glover

This Saturday at the Flux house on Governors Island, 12-4pm!Fun, fashion & friends old and new will gather for an improm...
09/25/2024

This Saturday at the Flux house on Governors Island, 12-4pm!
Fun, fashion & friends old and new will gather for an impromptu atelier experience followed by a fashion walk down Colonel’s Row!

Join Sally Beauty Twin and Yasmeen Abdallah as they celebrate Textile Month and make space for slow fashion & good energy. See you on the island!

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FASHION WALK - October 28th - Noon to 5pmThis Saturday  Textile Month celebration at Flux Factory this Saturday with Yas...
09/24/2024

FASHION WALK - October 28th - Noon to 5pm
This Saturday

Textile Month celebration at Flux Factory this Saturday with Yasmeen Abdallah and Sally Twin . We will be up-cycling material, sewing, threading, stitching and more then head out for a walk around the island.

12-3pm: workshop
4pm: walk

Flux Factory
404A Colonels Row
Governors Island

09/24/2024

Thanks to all who visited SPIRITUAL MACHINES this past Saturday Sept 21 for our closing performances curated by and which opened on August 17th. In case you missed… Here’s our spotlight on the closing performance of our program by . Thank you all for watching! 🙏🏽👾💞💓🤩💐

On view Aug 17-Sept 22 with performances on Sept 21 by MIDHEAVEN OR NAH , Ursula Endlicher and Adelle Lin Yingxi .

POWERED BY THE GLITCH

3:15-4:30pm

2024, screen, computer, we**am, custom 3D models, AR software
Powered by the Glitch explores the intersection of art, technology, and social activism through feminist cyborg theory and an interactive augmented reality (AR) installation. Audiences engage with their inner glitch, becoming feminist cyborgs through AR, challenging norms, and embracing identity fluidity.

The project interrogates how virtual personas influence real-life identities, proposing a synthesized identity merging both realms. Embracing the glitch as resistance and transformation, it disrupts binary logic, celebrating hybridity and the in-between, aiming to dismantle societal expectations of women’s perfection and constant performance for the world’s gaze.

Rooted in Legacy Russell’s concept of the glitch as “a form of refusal, a strategy of non-performance,” the project interrogates the possibilities within conformist systems. Participants will explore new forms of identity that emerge from the disruptions and imperfections inherent in both technology and nature. Additionally, the project will feature a cyborg feminist AR performance, offering a dynamic exploration of these themes.

Thanks to all who visited SPIRITUAL MACHINES this past Saturday Sept 21 for our closing performances curated by  and  wh...
09/23/2024

Thanks to all who visited SPIRITUAL MACHINES this past Saturday Sept 21 for our closing performances curated by and which opened on August 17th. In case you missed… Here’s our spotlight on the performance by .

On view Aug 17-Sept 22 with performances on Sept 21 by MIDHEAVEN OR NAH , Ursula Endlicher and Adelle Lin Yingxi .
THE HTMLGARDENESS — SOWING HTML BUT HARVESTING AI

2:00pm, 4:00pm

2024, WebAR, gif animation; acorn coffee, dried pears and cherries
The HTMLgardeness - Sowing HTML but Harvesting AI is a series of AR-Walks and experiences triggered by scanning the bark of trees, a natural QR-code. A critical yet playful series, it features the HTMLgardeness, a character played by the artist, reflecting on climate and systems, code and fragility, while offering AI-generated harvest.

In these walks guests are invited to venture out into different neighborhoods to discover, with smart phone and the artist’s WebAR “bARk” in hand, the HTMLgardeness’ trees and portals to reveal her tree-inspired AR dances, while sampling tree-specific drinks and snacks offered along the way.

For Spiritual Machines the HTMLgardeness’ surroundings will be extended to the Colonels Row neighborhood on Governors Island where she’ll inhabit five trees!

The augmented trees continue to be active and can be visited also after the event using the artist’s WebAR “bARk” at: https://html.bark.garden.

Thanks to all who visited SPIRITUAL MACHINES this past Saturday Sept 21 for our closing performances curated by  and  wh...
09/23/2024

Thanks to all who visited SPIRITUAL MACHINES this past Saturday Sept 21 for our closing performances curated by and which opened on August 17th. In case you missed… Here’s our spotlight on the performance by .

On view Aug 17-Sept 22 with performances on Sept 21 by MIDHEAVEN OR NAH , Ursula Endlicher and Adelle Lin Yingxi .
MIDHEAVEN OR NAH
VENUS RX

Noon-3:00pm 2022-2024 (ongoing), Fabric, candles, idols, Goddess paraphernalia, ritual items, cardboard, tinsel, mylar and other household bric-a-brac
Solidarity requires a felt connection displaced by techno-capitalism. Venus Rx is a performance that happens within 1-on-1 encounters which invite participants to tap into their interior feminine energy represented by planet Venus. While I am using technology to quickly ‘read the stars’ from a hand-held device, the exchange requires an element of sharing, storytelling, vulnerability and empathy which challenges the absence of human feeling promoted by artificial intelligence and Big Tech.

Thanks to all who visited us so far at SPIRITUAL MACHINES curated by  and  which opened on August 17th. In case you miss...
09/20/2024

Thanks to all who visited us so far at SPIRITUAL MACHINES curated by and which opened on August 17th. In case you missed… Here’s our spotlight on works by Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga .

On view Aug 17-Sept 22 with performances on Sept 21 by MIDHEAVEN OR NAH, Ursula Endlicher and Adelle Lin Yingxi .

2024, 2D video game, newsprint poster. Music by: Huang Luming
esfuerzo (effort) is a multimedia project consisting of public workshops, a print publication, an informational website, and a narrative-based video game informed by the history of U.S. immigration policy to solicit ideas for new immigration policies and visas that reflect today’s reality. Conceived during the summer of 2022 when more than 152,000 unaccompanied migrant minors reached the Mexico/U.S. border seeking asylum, the project is two-fold: to present an accessible dual-language index of U.S. immigration history and to workshop ideas for a lasting, functional immigration policy. The 2022 wave of unaccompanied migrant minors to the United States were primarily from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras- lands that were largely Mayan. esfuerzo’svisual language is informed by Mayan art and culture. The platformer-style video game draws from Mayan religious traditions as a framework to present a hero’s journey. Elements of Mayan mythology are dovetailed with a history of U.S. immigration to reflect a continuum of the human experience and a fluidity of culture.
Exhibition Hours: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, noon-5pm
For more information: spiritualmachines.neocities.org
Exhibition featuring works by: carlosdavidtc
Thanks to

Thanks to all who visited us so far at SPIRITUAL MACHINES curated by  and  which opened on August 17th. In case you miss...
09/19/2024

Thanks to all who visited us so far at SPIRITUAL MACHINES curated by and which opened on August 17th. In case you missed… Here’s our spotlight on a work by Lee Tusman.

On view Aug 17-Sept 22 with performances on Sept 21 by MIDHEAVEN OR NAH, Ursula Endlicher and Adelle Lin Yingxi .

2024, Custom Software (p5.js), Digital Drawings, ML-assisted drawing
Borscht Belt System is an infinite-running software system. The term Borscht Belt references the informal and now defunct community in upstate New York that was home to Jewish immigrant families on vacation in resorts catering to the community. This Borscht Belt System is a simulation, a self-playing AI repeatedly prompting itself with psychological questions, never answered, inside a digital ecosystem. The characters in the system include traditional Orthodox shtetl inhabitants from the pale of settlement from previous centuries, wandering among modern assimilated characters, turned loose inside the bowels of a computer. Over time, characters degrade or are hollowed out. Their form becomes harder to identify, or they become more distinctive. The soundtrack is a 1919 recording by Joseph Frankel’s Orchestra playing an improvised Jewish nigun, an ancient wordless melody traditionally sung by a synagogue, here performed as if in joyous celebration.
Exhibition Hours: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, noon-5pm
For more information: spiritualmachines.neocities.org
Exhibition featuring works by: carlosdavidtc
Thanks to

Thanks to all who visited us so far at SPIRITUAL MACHINES curated by  and  which opened on August 17th. In case you miss...
09/18/2024

Thanks to all who visited us so far at SPIRITUAL MACHINES curated by and which opened on August 17th. In case you missed… Here’s our spotlight on works by Carlos David Trujillo.

On view Aug 17-Sept 22 with performances on Sept 21 by MIDHEAVEN OR NAH, Ursula Endlicher and Adelle Lin Yingxi .

2022, Archive footage, AI produced voiceovers, screenrecordings. Duration: 3:21
In Social Mediums, a fictional company named: FOREVERPOST ® hires salesmen to sell “afterdeath” social media packages, “to keep the memories of those we’ve lost, alive.”
Comprised of archival footage from corporate sales training videos used by the Ford company in the 80’s, as well as AI produced voiceovers and screen recordings, the video serves a teaser for a script currently in development.
Exhibition Hours: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, noon-5pm
For more information: spiritualmachines.neocities.org
Exhibition featuring works by: carlosdavidtc
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09/17/2024

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