Wednesday, August 26th
Arrive at 7:30 pm
Talk begins at 8 pm

The Police Car Quartet was the first of nine public happenings by acclaimed Mexican artist, Lázaro Valiente, including the Tamal-Car Orchestra, muchos Mexican barrel organs, visual concerts at red lights, public radio Interventions, and many others. Each is a suggestion on how to control traffic in public spaces. Please join us to hear Lázaro speak, perform, and distribute works of art.

Brandstifter, Ik-Song Jin, Pak-Kei Mak, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Julius Schmiedel, and Lázaro Valiente will be presenting recent work, and Dome Theater will perform Future Rickshaw, a play by Forrest Gillespie.  Bring some food or drinks to share!

Flux Factory, are pleased to present the exhibition: FALLOW.   Artists Mary Mattingly, Brendan Fernandes and Artemis Louis work to examine American culture from the point of our present economic state.  With uncertainty looming, the economic down fall has brought us face to face with the loss of identity as a culture. FALLOW explores the possibilities and ingenuity that arise as a result of clearings created from deconstructing established realities. Each artist touches on their own perspectives through time referencing – the past, present and future as a vehicle for investigating our society.

anonymousgallery.com
646.238.9069

Opening Tuesday 23 September 6-9pm
then Wednesday and Thursday 6-9pm

also Sarah will be talking about the work at the Flux Thursday artist salon 9pm ish.

Sarah is a prolific illustrator, with clients including Stella McCartney, The Sunday Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal. This series captures a quirky sexual beauty of 500 ’sluts’ and for  50 bucks you can take one home.

more of Sarah’s work can be seen at www.sarahbeetson.com

Artworks inspired by Peter Lynchs cult-classic film Project Grizzly
Cinematheque Ontario and Flux Factory in conjunction with TSV present  at Trinity Square Video Gallery

Opening: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 5 €“ 8pm
Exhibition: June 20 €“ July 12, 2008
Master Class with Peter Lynch: June 28, 2008, 12-5pm
Cinematheque Ontario Director Spotlight:
Weird Science: The Idiosyncratic Archaeology of Peter Lynch
June 20 €“ 28, 2008

Artists:
Dominique Blais (France), Paul Burn (USA), Lisa Dillin (USA), Marcel
Dzama (Canada), Chris Hackett (USA) & Eleanor Lovinsky (Canada),
Aya Kakeda (Japan), Katerina Lanfranco (Canada), Fabienne
Lasserre (Canada), Motomichi (Japan), Frank Olive and Rudy
Shepherd (USA), Douglas Paulson (USA), Bruno Persat (France), and
Hiroshi Shafer (Japan).

more info on Grizzly Proof, April 2007

Trinity Square Video Gallery
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 376
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
416 593-1332
www.trinitysquarevideo.com
Hours: M-F 10am -6pm, S 12-4pm

CLOSING PARTY and CATALOGUE LAUNCH THIS SATURDAY!

New York, New York, New York
So nice we named it thrice.
Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir. Original concept by Jean Barberis.

Saturday, January 12th
Free and open to the public

With a Film Program curated by Marie Losier at 7:00pm
Catalogue Launch and Closing Party at 8:00pm
Regular gallery hours beginning at 12:00pm

New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia installation. It is a continuation of Flux Factory’s interest in urban landscapes and takes inspiration from the Panorama, Robert Moses’ scale model of New York City in the Queens Museum of Art.  For this exhibition, over 100 artists from all five boroughs and around the world re-imagine the public and private spaces of New York.

LIMITED EDITION NYNYNY CATALOGUE WILL BE ON SALE FOR $25

New York Story: Today and Yesterday’s New York: The Loony Land
Curated by Marie Losier
Come share a rare evening of new and old treasures from the heart of the loopiest and most beautiful city, New York.
Total Program Time: 68 mins
all films screened digitally Anatomy of Cindy Fink
Patricia Jaffe, Richard Leacock and Paul Leaf , 11 min, 1960
Cinema verité portrait of a teenage girl’s first jazz dance audition in a Greenwich Village studio. With Larry Rivers, Al Leslie, and Louise Lassier.

Le Mal du Pays
Cecile Paris, video, 4 min 50, 2006
Brooklyn roof and nostalgic music with a New York face you will not forget.

Hold Me While I’m Naked
George Kuchar, 16mm, color, sound, 15 min, 1966
“A very direct and subtle, very sad and funny look at nothing more or less than sexual frustration and aloneness. In its economy and cogency of imaging, Hold Me surpasses any of Kuchar’s previous work. The odd blend of Hollywood glamour and drama with all-too-real life creates and inspires a counterpoint of unattainable desire against unbearable actuality.” — Ken Kelman

In The Street
Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, and James Agee, silent, 15min, 1945
In the Street, a short, lyrical documentary film. The Streets of the poor quarters of great cities are, above all, a theater and a battleground.

Girl with 3 Socks
Shannon Plumb, super 8, 3 min
Brooklyn Bridge, a girl and 3 socks…

On The Bowery
Lionel Rogosin, 20 mins, 1957
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray.

The Existentialist
Leon Prochnik, 10 min, 1960
Leon Prochnik’s study of non-conformity has a man walking through New York while the traffic and the city move about him in reverse!

Listen now:

download mp3 (58mb)

 In conjunction with the exhibition New York, New York, New York
 PANEL: The City from Below, Above, and Sideway

 Featuring: Julia Solis, Steve Duncan, Catherine McMahon, Douglas
Paulson and Marie Lorenz. Moderated by Chen Tamir and Jean Barberis.

 Please join us for a panel discussion and presentations by acclaimed
urban historians and artists with slightly unusual views of New York
City.

 Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
 Free and open to the public.

 Steve Duncan
 Steve Duncan is an urban explorer who has been climbing and crawling
around NYC's hidden spaces for the past decade.Steve will show images
from and discuss his two parallel projects: climbing to the tops of
NYC bridges over the city's major waterways and spelunking in the
tunnels that hold the city's lost and forgotten underground rivers.

 Catherine McMahon
 Catherine McMahon will discuss the amazing history of the New York
City panorama at the Queens Museum.

 Doug Paulson and Marie Lorenz
 Doug Paulson and Marie Lorenz discuss their adventures exploring the
lost, forgotten, and submerged islands at the northern edge of New
York City.

 Julia Solis
 Julia Solis organizes scavenger hunts and exhibitions in abandoned
spaces. She is the founder of Ars Subterranea, an artists' group
dedicated to the creative exploration of ruins, and the author of "New
York Underground: The Anatomy of a City."

 ________________________________
 New York, New York, New York
  So nice we named it thrice.
  Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir. Original
concept by Jean Barberis.

 New York, New York, New York is an interactive, multimedia
installation. It is a continuation of Flux Factory's interest in urban
landscapes and takes inspiration from the Panorama, Robert Moses'
scale model of New York City in the Queens Museum of Art. Members of
the Flux Factory art collective will work in collaboration with over
100 artists from all five boroughs and around the world to re-imagine
the public and private spaces of New York.

 Gallery hours: Fridays €“ Sundays, 1-5pm. Closed Dec. 23rd and 30th.

 New York, New York, New York is made possible with public funds from
New York State Council on the Arts,
  New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on
the Arts, as well as generous support from
  the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation,
  Materials for the Arts, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Archives:

December 18, 2007

Hungarian Cultural Center
447 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10013

Special Thank to Flux Factory’s sponsors:
New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Queens Council on the Arts, as well as generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Materials for the Arts, and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Here’s the guideline for this one-month long film program: bad taste, saturated levels of color, heavy make-up, cartoonish characters, theatrical violence, domineeringly psychosexual women, larger than life pop art settings, & a healthy disregard for all forms of authority: religious, moral, legal, political, and last but not least, the authority of the established aesthetic tradition! And yes you can bring your mum: there’ll be make-up for everyone!

Admission: Free. Popcorn is on us.

	Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007 at 9pm ‘ World Famous *BOB*’ with special guests in a special performance Be ready for glamour! One of the New York City’s finest burlesque acts kicks off the Fat Lipstick Program. With a larger than life attitude and even bigger appetite towards life, *BOB* has been entertaining the troops in burlesque haunts, and all over the world, with unforgettable acts such as Topless Aerobics in 6 inch Heels While Eating Cheeseburgers to AC/DC and Martini Time where she mixes a martini in her ample cleavage! > MySpace
	Terrifying Girls  High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973) by Norifumi Suzuki Three new students at a super-strict girl’s school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They’re approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike). The film opens with a female school clique bloodletting a fellow student amidst verbal abuse and harsh accusation. The terrified girl breaks free of the life-draining vacuum syringe and races to the roof, where her tormentors force her off the ledge and stomp on her fingers until she falls to her death. This is all before the main titles! And that clique? They aren’t even the real bad girls! This is reform school, and the new crop of inmates. Featuring some dazzling torture set pieces, including a tense €˜blood draining ceremony’, genital electrocution, as well as a disturbing scene featuring a light bulb. Suzuki’s trademark seems to be the bladder trick, where some hapless girl is forced to hold her water while a clock ticks in the background. > extrait
	Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 at 9pm Female Trouble (1974) by John Waters, Pope of Trash & Prince of Puke A high point in low taste .The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer – all of which stems from her parents’ refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous model before her inevitable rendezvous with the electric chair. Throughout the film, imagery of motherhood & procreation recur, often with pure crazy irony. Edith Massey’s character is imprisoned in a cage & offered eggs €” abortions are mentioned multiple times as preferable to child birth. The professed, and questioned, values of the film are all about the meaning of norms in the modern world €” and how both the norms and the alternatives may both be insane choices in capitalist society. > extrait
	Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007 at 9pm Andy Warhol’s Bad (1977) Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the local cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he’s actually doing his job, but she doesn’t want to sacrifice any of her associates. Several other side plots are woven in, populated with characters from the sleazy side of life. Although Andy Warhol’s association with this movie was merely nominal, the late Jed Johnson and his screenplay writers produced, this subversive movie. This film is filled with abuse that good people everywhere proclaim they are incapable of fathoming. It is the realm of sick people with evil imaginations that prey on the weak, homely, helpless. However, because it is cinema, Bad should be viewed with a discerning mind. It is very funny at times to watch human folly in all its excesses. This film takes bad human behaviour to the extreme. > extrait
	Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007 at 9pm Double Features Night Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) by The Fellini of the sex-industry Russ Meyer Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna & Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not Lamar’s obsession with rear entry. After submitting to the one last time Levonna comes up with a plan. While Lamar is trying find other tail to try his technique on, Levonna becomes Lola with aid of a wig and a Mexican accent. A Mexican cocktail later Lola finally has Lamar straight, but he wasn’t awake for it. The gay marriage counselor, attracted to Lamar’s problem, couldn’t help them and Lemar must finally seek redemption at the church of Rio Dio Radio and the laying on of hands by Sister Eufaula Roo. Nothing is obscene providing it is done in bad taste. Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and voluptuous actresses. He was also adept at mocking moral stereotypes and actively lampooning conservative American values. Many of his films feature a narrator who attempts to give the audience a moral roadmap of what they are watching. Like contemporary Terry Southern, Meyer realized that sex €” as one of the few common interests among most humans €” was a natural vehicle for satirizing values and conventions held by the Greatest Generation. > extrait
	Show Girls (1995) by Paul Verhoeven Worst Director and Worst Picture of The 16th Annual RAZZIE Awards Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) travel to Las Vages to become an exotic dancer- a showgirl. She is doing very well at the beginning, and striding step by step towards the top of the stripper’s clubs in Las Vegas. But when she meets a new lead showgirl, named Cristal Conners (Gina Gershon) and they have to work and show together, the competition between those two best showgirls begin. Enthralled by the glamorous life of Las Vegas, Nomi Malone is prepared to do everything to be the leading showgirl, also if some very dirty steps must be taken from her side. Written by Joe Eszterhas who came up with the idea for this script while on vacation at his home in Maui, Hawaii. Based on the idea he scribbled on a napkin, he was advanced $2 million to write the script and picked up an additional $1.7 million when the studio produced it into a film. Another thing: the only time actresses complained that they felt uncomfortable was during the scenes with the monkeys, who constantly stared at their bare breasts. > extrait

Curated by François Leloup-Collet . Thanks to Tubby Carroll for his great help.

By Bus
From Port Authority, take the 190 bus to Paterson. For Paterson Museum, take the bus to the end of the line, Broadway. Buses usually leave every 15 minutes. Go to www.njtransit.com for more info.
Cost: $4.50 each way

By Train
From Penn Station. Must switch trains in Secaucus. Go to www.njtransit.com for more info and schedules.
Cost: $5.25 each way

By Car
Follow Route 80 West and signs to Paterson. For the Paterson Museum, get off at Exit 57-A/B, to Downtown Paterson.

For detailed driving directions to the Paterson Museum, visit www.thepatersonmuseum.com

*PLEASE NOTE: Schedules may be subject to change. Most tours, unless otherwise indicated, are walking tours. Please wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to walk.

Town Hall Meetings
Discuss the project with the design team. This is open to the general public€”Patersonians and New Yorkers alike. Make your voice heard!
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Dates: Every Thursday evening from June 7-July 12
Time: 7:00pm

Opening Party
Reception and introduction to the project
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Saturday, June 2
Time: 4:00pm

Paterson reading group with Joe Milutis
The Paterson Reading Group will be an informal discussion of William Carlos Williams’ epic poem Paterson, meeting on throughout June, and featuring tours and special guests. Participants will be expected to furnish their own copy of €˜Paterson’; we’ll be using the revised edition with annotations by Christopher MacGowan.

To register for the reading group and receive updates, please email joe_milutis@brown.edu.
Where to meet: Ivanhoe Wheelhouse, Spruce Street between Market St. and McBride Ave, next to Burger King

Monday, June 11; 7pm
Discussion of Book I of Paterson.

Monday, June 25; 7pm
Discussion of Book II of Paterson;
walk on Garrett Mountain

Monday, July 2; 7pm
Discussion of Book III of Paterson;
visit to Paterson Public Library

This Monday’s discussion group will meet early at 5:30 at Lambert Castle, Paterson, NJ for a quick walk on the mountain. Then, for those of you who will just be coming to the reading group, convene at 7 (regular time) at the Ivanhoe for our “cool of books.”

A recording of some of last week’s discussion is on the latest entry of New Jersey as An Impossible Object. http://impossibleobject.blogspot.com/2007/06/walking.html
Monday, July 9; 7pm
Discussion of Books IV and V of Paterson

Stadium Reverberator Tour with artist duo eteam
On June 9th, 2007 we’ll test the reverberant effect of the deserted Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, NJ.

Looking at the stadium from above, it reminds of a huge loudspeaker. Unfortunately this loudspeaker hasn’t been used in a long time. On Saturday we will try to use this dormant possibility and trigger a composition, which will be created through knocking, jumping, scratching and clapping on the outside walls of the stadium. These sounds and movements will be captured on video and later on edited into a musical composition. Once this process is completed, options for screening the music video are: inside the Hinchliffe Stadium, the Paterson Museum, Ivanhoe artists mosaic and other venues in the NYC metropolitan area. Refreshments and snacks will be available.
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Saturday, June 9
Time: 1:00pm

The Expert’s Historic Tour
Tour the magnificent Falls area with Paterson Museum Director Giacomo De Stefano
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Dates: Sunday, June 10
Time: 2:00pm

The Pilgrimage Tour
Native New Jersians tell us it can’t be done.
Be there to prove them wrong or perish trying.
We will walk from Grand Central Station to Paterson.
A modern day pilgrimage that will be talked about for generations!!!!
Jean Barberis takes you on a stroll that starts in Grand Central Station and leads you all the way to the Great Falls in Paterson. Actually, it’s only 20 miles, so don’t be shy! Beverages are on us.
Where to meet: Grand Central Station, NYC
Date: Saturday, June 16
Time: 10:00am

The Paterson Art Scene-War Stories from Those Who Know
Artists Joe Ruffilo and Don Kommit give you the lowdown on Paterson’s rich artistic and literary history, from personal stories of Kerouac and Ginsburg to the present.
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Saturday, June 23
Time: 2:00pm

The Religious Institutions of Paterson: Their Architecture and Influence on the Community
The city of Paterson has nearly 140 places of worship. This tour will focus on the design of a few of the institutions and their effects on the growth and development of the community. Led by Leonora Retsas.
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Sunday, June 24
Time: 2:00pm

Wednesdays at the Ivanhoe
Visit the one and only Ivanhoe Artists Mosaic, a nonprofit arts organization, meeting house, and gallery in Paterson, for their monthly “Open Mike” with the opening reception for “Love Affair with Paterson” a tribute to all there is to love about the world’s first planned industrial city. See website for details and directions to all events, www.ivanhoeartists.org.
Where to meet: Ivanhoe Wheelhouse, Spruce Street between Market St. and McBride Ave, next to Burger King
Date: Wednesday, June 27
Time: 8:00pm

Industrial Archaeology Tour
Tour the city’s unbelievable old mill buildings and industrial architecture.
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Saturday, June 30
Time: 1:00pm

Cinematic Visions of Paterson
Films about Paterson, films by Patersonians, and unexpected films€¦
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Sunday, July 1
Time: 3:00pm

A Re-Tour Of The Monuments Of The Passaic
Re-create, re-walk, and re-photograph Robert Smithson’s experience of monumental discovery through Passaic, New Jersey. What are today’s New Monuments? Lets find out.
Where to meet: Port Authority NYC. Meet at the 190 bus gate going to Paterson. Roundtrip tickets between NYC and Paterson are $9.00 and can be purchased at the bus station.

Date: Saturday, July 7
Time: 10:45am

The Paterson Mystery Tour
Stefany Anne Golberg and Morgan Meis take you on a tour of Paterson full of special discoveries and hidden places€¦To be followed by drinks and more at The Ivanhoe.
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Sunday, July 8
Time: 2:00pm

Closing Party
The day has arrived! Join us for a thrilling PowerPoint presentation of the initial designs for the Paterson Monument. Curious what all the hullabaloo has been about? Can’t stand the suspense? Come to the Paterson Museum this Saturday and find out… What IS the monument to Paterson?
Free falafel and drinks will be served.
Where to meet: Paterson Museum
Date: Saturday, July 14
Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm

There are a number of great festivals happening in Paterson this summer! Check them out:

African American Heritage Parade
June 16, 2007, beginning at 10:00am
Parade starts at the Masonic Temple on Broadway

Puerto Rican Parade and Festival
The festival will happen on Marshall Street from August 24-16

The parade will be on Main Street on August 26

Flux Factory is participating in the Whitney’s Family Day, October 7th!

pictures coming soon!

END-OF-SUMMER-BOOTY-BASS-DANCE-PARTY

Mr Andersonic (GhettoAss Productions)
DJ Goon (The Glimmer Twins Of Booty Music)
DJ Unicorn (East Coast Unicorns)
DJ Pizza Party (Fiesta Pizza Crew)
y otras!!

directions here

click on image for timelapse movie!!!

paintballbynumbers.com

Office Ops, 57 Thames St., Williamsburg -
Take the L to Morgan Ave, walk 2 blks South, left on Thames -
718-418-2509 €“ http//:www.officeops.org/directions/

The Critical Arts Ensemble are a group of cultural critics who are suffering ongoing harassment by the federal government, first with absurd ‘bioterrorism’ allegations, now with baseless mail fraud charges. On August 30th, as the Republicans swarm over NYC, Flux Factory offers up a hectic little oasis of noise and solidarity at Williamsburg’s Office Ops Arts Space

All proceeds go to the CAEs legal defense.

Featuring performances by USAISAMONSTER, Man in Gray, Drayton Sawyer Gang, and other special guests.

For more on Steve Kurtz and the Critical Arts Ensemble:
http://www.caedefensefund.org

see polariods (of Helen), cartoons (by Helen), and stenciles (of Helen’s friends!!)

listen to the funny and beautiful songs she sings (originals and covers)

music time is at 8pm

Ian Dreiblatt, Robyn Carliss, and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein will be reading recent works.

This will be the first of many Flux Salon evenings where genius people will read genius works or art.

click here for directions

… and many authors!

A workshop joining both coasts of the US plus the south of Brazil.
All working on a single story at the same time.

When: June 30th 2004 7 PM – 10 PM
Where: Flux Factory – New York, NY
The Know – Portland, OR
Unisinos – Porto Alegre, Brazil
How: using the Shuffleupagus collaboration method!

MORE INFO HERE

All Fluxers are more or less blankety blank, honkey kike frenchies, lazy asses, poorly dressed, weird freaky alien beings.

These are stereotypes.

Join Anheiser Busch and Jabz Joint, a new Cajun restaurant, in the old Flux Hood at Jabz Joint,
as they help to break stereotypes and support the Flux Factory, and a new documentary film which focuses on Stereotypes. The film (not yet titled), produced and directed by Sally W. Herships will look at stereotypes – what they are, where they came from, and how to break them

You get: Food, Beer, Live Music and “Stereotype Trivia”, Corn on the Cob Eating Contest, Fortune telling, Face Painting, Caricatures

JabzJoint will be providing lip smacking snacks suchas hot wings, Cajun fried potatos, etc..
Anheiser Busch will be bringingthe kegs and one free Budweiser to each guest! Eat,
drink and be merry – half the bar goes to the Flux Factory and Sally’s
movie so we encourage heavy drinking!

While you indulge catch the entertainment below.

7:00 – 8:00pm Jake Leg, Jake Leg is dedicated to preserving and re-interpreting the songs of America’s great musicaltraditions. Focusing on Country, Bluegrass, and Blues, they sing of the finer things in life: love, liquor, freight trains and Jesus.

9:00 – 9:30pm Stereotype Triva, Every wondered where the term “Honky” came from? Do you already know? Now’s your chance to find out! Show up and join a team. **WINNING TEAM gets a set of Mugpies from designer Daniel Harper!!
(These mugs sold at the Whitney Museum design store for $50 so now’s your chance to nab a set for free!)

9:30 Corn on the Cob Eating Contest,Flux’s own Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria will face off contestants in a timed display of gluttony. Who ever thought Corn on the Cob could be so suspenseful?

10:00 – 10:25pm Another Band (Clifford Lane – guitar/vocal, Megan Pearl – bass, Spencer Cohen – drums)
flows from quiet lyric passages to fuzzy epic rock. Each song feels like a journey,but is crafted like a pop song. They have been playing the New York City area for four years.

11:00 – 11:25 Another Band

AND Fortune Telling by Madam Irina. Sit down with the lovely gypsy, Madam Irina,
and listen as she reads your fortune in her cards.

ALSO If you’re not music or kern-ally inclined get your face made fun of in
permanent ink by Fred Harper (www.fredharper.com).
Fred has done illustrations for The New York Times, The Wall Street
Journal, D.C. Comics and countless other impressive
publications – now it’s your turn – let Fred draw your caricature.

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Questions about the project please contact: sally@sohosally.com

ABOUT THE FILM

About a week and half after September 11, in 2001, I began working on an
oral history project, “Tell Us Your Story”, collecting people’s thoughts and
reactions to the events of that day. One evening, while interviewing in
Union Square Park, in New York City, I met a group of Sikhs. The men wore
turbans and many of them told similar stories of being mistaken by ignorant
people, unfamiliar with the traditional Sikh headdress, for Muslims or
residents of the Middle East. Men were forced to hide out in their
apartments, to remove their turbans, unthinkable in the Sikh religion, all
for fear of being attacked. Some even told of being chased down the street.

So many battles that are fought, both abroad and at home, are born out of
fear and ignorance. Fear of what we think we know about each race, age group
and cultural enclave, and fear of what we don’t. What will happen if one
group is allowed to marry? Or if another moves into a neighborhood?
Stereotypes stunt our education about each other and propagate fear of one
another. Therefore while our country is engaged in a physical war, we need
to be at war with stereotypes and learn to embrace our common humanity.

Across cultures, religions, ages and races, New Yorkers from the youngest to
the oldest are celebrating life not necessarily in ways you would imagine.
Through interviews and footage, this film seeks to embrace the joy of New
York City while waging war on stereotypes by exploring and archiving the
amazing array of New Yorker’s experiences during their days and nights out.
“A Night Out” will ultimately break down the preconceived notions that are
often assigned not only to race, but also to age, occupation and
socio-economic level.

Every day the contemporary man encounters tens, even hundreds of designed images produced by the advertising, entertainment, politics, sports, and media industries. To accomplish their task of selling specific products or behavior these images must have an intensity that produces a fast, almost immediate impact on the not-so-innocent gaze of the spectator. As an artist concerned with the creation of stable and lasting image-objects, I decided to survey the reverse relation between an image’s intensity and its possible exposure time. The works in this exhibition are based on the assumption that reducing an image’s intensity increases its resistance. Thus pictures as reduced intensity images are more able to bear and attract a viewer’s multifaceted approach and recurring interest, allowing them to function as works of art today.

Includes Series Strokes A/G €“ 7 sheets, 50×65cm each, 2003
Series Observations A/F €“ 6 sheets, 50×65cm each, 2003
Generic/Genetic€“ 50×65cm
Series Squares A/D €“ 4 sheets, 50×60cm each, 2004

For more information: http://gallery.passion4art.com/members/kolio/index.html

UbiSACArtists from all over are coming together to face the first UbiSAC challenge. Each piece addresses a specific challenge put forth by this year’s host organization, The Holders of the Sac `04.
More information about this year’s exhibition can be found at http://www.ubisac.org

Artists Include:
sliv and dulet from SF,CA: “as of May 29, 2004″
Randy Sarafin from NYC: “The Most Important Statement About the Speed of Time Ever ”
Made by Me
Donnie Bugden from NYC: “Everyone’s a Weiner!”
Ubicomp Krew from Berlin,DE: “RIPLfield”
James Rouvelle from NYC: “Robotomy”
Holders of the SAC ‘04 from NYC:
“Haptic Experiment in Transmission of Volumetric Spheres”
Holders of the SAC’04 from NYC: “Voting Tool”

The hosts: The Flux Factory, James Rouvelle, Nurit Bar-Shai, Michael Bernstein, Mark Driscoll, Carlos Giffoni, Clay Johnson, Itti Karuson, Jason Lee, Alison Lewis, Yeonju Shim, Dong Jun Song

April 24th 2004
Pierre Bastien
Guillermo Brown

May 15th 2004
Free103point9
Damian Catera guitar drone in D
neuroTransmitter
Ben Owen
Radio Ruido
Matt Bua + Matt Mikas + Tom Roe “Of The Bridge in D” (10 mins.)

May 22nd 2004
Stefany Golberg

Admission: $7
Starting time: 9 pm

Satoshi Takeishi (Laptop audio processing & Percs)
Shoko Nagai (E.Piano, Toy piano & Concertina)
w/Special guest Al Griffin on improvised visual projection

vSoon (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai) explores the possibility of sound sculpting through 20th century music, free improvisation and real-time audio processing. By extracting, magnifying and modifying the past musical event, they make “passing of time” a visual experience.

*Andy Hawkins (guitar) and James Plotkin (laptop) – overpowering amplifier abuse with digital manipulation and disintegration (members of Blind Idiot God, Down River, Khanate, Atomsmasher, Old). ?

*Human Adult Band – homemade instrument anti-rock New Jersey expressionism.

*Steven O’Malley (guitar)/ Tim Hawkins (drums)/ Gerritt (live processing) side project of local metal/drone bands Khanate and Sunn))) with Gerritt, who is on tour from Houston and runs Misanthropic Agenda label.
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www.southernlord.com
www.misanthropicagenda.com

*Sean Meehan (snaredrum) – master of ascetic minimalism

*psi – Jaime Fennelly (electronics), Chris Forsyth (guitar), Fritz Welch (drums & amplified percussion) – Cathartic, hermetic, meditative noise that slowly evolves into nothing. www.antiopic.com/allegorical/september2003.html

*special guest DJ Teeth

WINTER SCREENINGS
- A December film/video show hosted collectively
by the Flux Factory, and the Sunnyside Film Festival.

Sat 13th & Sun 14th
6:30pm at Flux Factory
- Free Admission

A collaborative experience between two Sunnyside-based organizations. Films will be a blend of work brought in by The Sunnyside Film Festival, an activity of the Humanist Center of Cultures, and Flux Factory, a not-for-profit arts organization/collective supporting innovation in things through diverse mediums.

presenting:

from Flux Factory:

Miracle Mischief 23:00 min Flux Factory
Kick Ass 1:00 min – Jean Barberis
Hello Titty 5:00 – Anne-Lisa Breuning
Double Workout – 45 sec Flux Factory
Jollyship the Whizbang – Episode 1 9:00 min Nick Jones
Walk in the Park – 4 mins Flux Factory
Kick Ass 1:00 min – Jean Barberis
Queen of the Beach 3:00 min – Anne-Lisa Breuning
Tour de QMA – 45 sec – Flux Factory
and possible surprise!..

from SunnySide Film Festival:

saturday:
Except My Soul by Catalina Santamaria
Rage Master – America Maldonado
The Heir by Lorenzo Colcado
Cracking the Shell by Shinichi Murato
Drain by Santiago Caicedo
A Big Misunderstanding by Carmel Balfe
and a film by – Carolina Caycedo

sunday:
Free Advice by Sherry Gamlin
Happiness by William Zapata
Sin Ti by Leslie Casillas
7 Train Movie by Josh Crockett
Solo by Wilson Burbano
GI JOE – Paloma Campo
Int. apt. Night – Robert Hamilton
Rolling – Mig$

Sunnyside Film Festival is a community-based Film&Video Show, free and open to anyone. Sunnyside Film Festival aims to build bridges between cultures by celebrating diversity of our neighborhood and connect our neighbors through artistic experience. Humanist Center of Cultures- Sunnyside has been building multicultural community in Sunnyside since 1999. Our mission is to “Humanize Sunnyside,” means we promote integration of our neighbors. Since Sunnyside is a very diverse community, our volunteers are from many different cultural backgrounds, and we learn a lot from each other by organizing activities together. In a big cities like New York City, we would like to work towards people with openness to different values and norms. We invite you to participate in our mission!

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The SunnySide Film Festival is soliciting films/videos
from around the neighborhood, and beyond the East River and Atlantic Ocean.

for more info please contact:
santiagocaicedo@hotmail.com
45-18 40th ST (1R)
Sunnyside, NY
11104
USA

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A project that will provide a forum for artists whose work slips between the cracks that open between galleries/museums, art cinema houses, and music clubs. The events are intended to foster a dialogue between artist and audience to increase understanding of the methods and theories used in the performances and installations.

Soundscrape will be a venue for national and international media artists. New No York and f-matic will be working in conjunction with Flux Factory to bring high-quality intermedia art to the Queens community.

It has been possible for this series to take place with the generous help from the Experimental Television Center

The Soporific Festival
features installations, theater, performance art, dance, and more that explore the theme of sleep/ the unconscious.

Because, really, what could be more exciting than sleeping?
Meet at 7pm outside of the Union Square Barnes & Nobles to catch the subway performance to Flux Factory. Installations and drinks starting at 8pm. More performances at 8:30.

All for just $5.00!

This Philly quartet imagines rock as chamber music, all sculpted and meticulous. What that means is that the guitars, keyboard and violin rip and run together, with help from a hip-shaking backbeat” – Time Out New York

“The most subversive music you can listen to with Grandma”. – Ben Morgan, Philadelphia Weekly.
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read great feedback from visitors!

Including: Fever Monument, Massachusetts based post punk with powerful lyrics. T.K. Webb, Brooklyn based spooky blues singer/ songwriter. Gene Dreamy and Gary Sincere, poppy Brooklyn duo with hauntingly catchy songs. The Fontaine Toups, female fronted pop group featuring Fontaine of Versus. The Anomoanon, Ned Oldham’s southern rock project on palace records. German Cars vs. American Homes schizophrenic, politically active, visually exciting Brooklyn Mega Group. Dynamite Club, obscure punk band fronted by a crazy Japanese guy and rounded out with dissonant horns. Bailies Band, Massachusetts based punky 3 piece featuring big metal grooves. Neptune, Boston based art punk, featuring all scrap metal instruments and a great live show. Modern Day Urban Barbarians, Brooklyn based live drum and bass duo playing effects-heavy noise rock. Centuries, tense, exciting electronic 2 piece from NYC. The Negatones, NYC’s noise pop heroes unleash their dissonant guitar and quirky keyboard sounds to make this set a noisy one. The Ex Models, NYC quirky, raucous, frenetic math rock. Flux Information Sciences hard driving electronic act from Brooklyn with a showy live presence. Ghost Exits, Brooklyn based electronic 3 piece featuring dancey beats and a guitar that sounds like glass shattering.

Stefany Anne Golberg in collaboration with Flux Factory, Inc. presents:

JEWISH MUSICIANS AGAINST ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
$5.00 admission

BANDS: Jewlia Eisenberg’s Charming Hostess, The Galerkin Method, Krakatoa, TBA
INFORMATION: There will also be a number of groups tabling in order to provide further information about this issue.