CONFLUX 2006 - September 14 - 17. 2006
Conflux is the annual New York City festival where visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers, researchers, and the public gather for four days to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city.
Say hello to Brooklyn! In 2006, Conflux will be held in Brooklyn for the first time. McCaig-Welles Gallery in Williamsburg will serve as our headquarters, with events taking place in and around the gallery.
Conflux 2006 is produced by Glowlab, a collective that deals with the hidden (e.g., emotional) qualities of “community” (more to follow in a subsequent posting). It's curated by Glowlab and iKatun, a nonprofit organization focusing on art and community.
PROJECT SUBMISSION DEADLINE
10 April, 2006, 11:59pm EST
Visit the Conflux website for more details.
Thanks to Regine Debatty's We-Make-Money-Not-Art for the tip.
BOB JACOBSON is fascinated by the experience of experience. A planner and technologist, Bob has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from UCLA. He's been a policy researcher, technology CEO, science writer, and consultant. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied cellular telephony's impacts on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic Circle. Bob edited Information Design (MIT Press 2000) and is now writing a book on the theory and practice of creating edifying, transformative experiences.
PAULA THORNTON says, "Understanding human behavior (economics), optimizing interactions (design) and facilitating conversations (markets), are the means to achieve strategic differentiation. This is the focus of our discipline. It is not a 'nice to have'‚ and is not, like documentation once was, an afterthought. It is the means by which to start a strategic discussion and the means by which to drive a tactical initiative. All design should be evidence-based."
