LIC / Long Island City Queens / March 5, 2010.
At long last I made a connection with the Flux Factory. They’d been on my radar for about two years, during which time I had made several feeble attempts to contact them via email and telephone. Over the course of those two years, I remotely watched [...]

From liQcity, March 11, 2010
By Audrey Dimola
Despite the many changes our little-nabe-that-could is constantly undergoing, Long Island City’s arts community still finds a way to endure – always seeming to discover new ways to express itself. Last week’s Armory Fest did much to drive this point home, especially on a Long Island City Night art-hop [...]

BY BARNABE GEISWEILLER
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 6:24 PM
Across New York City, arts organizations have needed to tighten their budgets, reduce staff and cutback on programs or events. In fact, 80 percent of arts groups surveyed by the Alliance for the Arts, a New York-based research and advocacy organization, said they were trimming down their budgets, [...]

Eat to the Beat with Sarah Obraitis focuses on community artists and foodies that seem to be equally dedicated to both subjects. The show offers them a venue to perform, discuss their art, their thoughts on culinary and “green” issues, and explore the enmeshed worlds of food and music.
This episode features Flux’s very own Chen [...]

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Arctic Book Club: Artists Respond to An African in Greenland
By Nancy Campbell

This autumn, Flux Factory and EFA Project Space presented Arctic Book Club in Manhattan. Curated by Jean Barberis and Michelle Levy, the exhibition was the result of an epic several-month long journey by a group of artists responding to Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s [...]

Editor’s Pick

Arctic Book Club: Artists Respond to An African in Greenland
Wednesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Oct. 24 2009
212-563-5855

Flux Factory and EFA Project Space present this collective exhibition based on artists’ responses to the titular book by Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s book, developed during a series of book club-style meetings.

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

323 W 39th St, between [...]

From TimeOut NY!
Fifteen years old this year, Flux Factory is a nonprofit organization devoted to artist growth and general wackiness. Artwork is available year-round at fluxfactory.org, and the annual art auction, for which 125 artists submit one or two pieces for bidding, is scheduled to take place in February.

In the late 1950s, a West African boy reads a book about Greenland.  He dreams to someday travel there.  And he does.  Then, in the late 70s, he writes a book about his unique ten-year journey from his native Togo to Greenland.  The book goes on to win awards, including being one of The New [...]

From Flavorpill.com:
To most ears, the police siren is simply a cacophonous necessity. But Mexico-born musician Lazaro Valiente – better described as a purveyor of funky, found sounds – appropriates that wail and other cop-car noises for an amusing, chaotic, and unusual experiment in composition. For example, in Police Car Quartet – the first of nine [...]

A dirty secret and devout dishes for JOSH BERNSTEIN and his crew on a trip to Flushing’s Hindu Temple Society
LIKE EVERY JEW worth his weight in gefilte fish and matzo balls, I put my full blind faith behind Moses.
“You have my personal fun guarantee,” proclaims the bearded Moses Gates, that is. The miracle maker is [...]

Lazaro Valiente performing at Flux Thursday, July 9th, 2009.
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Daily News, Queens
BY Pauline Pechin
Tuesday, July 21st 2009, 10:11 AM
NEW YORK CITY is home to cultural organizations in just about every medium. But the recession has forced local groups to find alternative solutions to stretch scarce resources.
One example is the Center for the Holographic Arts in Long Island City, the only program in the city [...]

Flux Factory
After six years in its old space, Flux Factory is opening anew near Queens Plaza on July 1. In addition to art shows at the multipurpose space, look for Flux-led bus tours and a science fair later this year. 39-31 29th St between 39th and 40th Aves, Long Island City, Queens (fluxfactory.org)
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/features/74835/new-places-in-nyc/2.html

Time Out NY
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/own-this-city/72053/your-perfect-nyc-weekend/3.html
PDF
NY Times – Urban Eye Weekend
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/urbaneye/index.html

PDF

Make Money/Save Money: This multitalented Frenchman proves that home is where the art is.

Time Out New York / Issue 714 : Jun 4€“10, 2009
By Jonathan Bender
The laws of physics state that bodies in motion come to rest only when an external force stops them. But Newton’s theory would have required tweaking had he [...]

Flux Factory is Moving, from FreeDimensional
By Todd Lester, March 19, 2009.
As with many civil society initiatives, it is sometimes necessary to change space … and sometimes necessary to fight for the one you already have. Herewith I am re-posting two notes from the Flux Factory and SFAI:
[Flux Factory]
After our recent eviction in October, Flux Factory [...]

昨日のパーティーは、ものすごかったです。とっても広ーい会場に、何百人かのアーティストとその友人が詰めかけていました。この会場となったFlux Factoryは、パーフォーミングアーティストを支援するNPOらしく、そのせいか、広い倉庫のような場所が、細かくたくさんの部屋に仕切られていて、今回のパーティーでは、それぞれの部屋をそれぞれのアーティストが飾り付けし、それらの小部屋ごとに、パフォーマンスやらライブやらが繰り広げられていました。オルタナティブジャズの部屋、ノイズ系テクノでダンスする部屋、アコースティックな女の子の歌の部屋、エレクトリックな民族音楽系バンドの部屋、ビデオアートの部屋、DJ付きのダンスの部屋３つ、、、などなどなど。屋上＋大小２０個くらいの部屋で大変なことになっていました。
呼ばれていたミュージシャンがみんなレベルが高く、アーティストも納得のカッティングエッジな ライブパフォーマンスが同時に各部屋で行われていて、長居しても全然飽きないパーティーでした。結局、夜９時くらいから行って、３時くらいまでパーティー にいました。６時間も同じパーティーにいて飽きないなんてなかなかないので、とても良いパーティーだったのだと思います。人生のなかのCrazy parties トップ３にランクインするような楽しいパーティーでした。
また、さらに素晴らしいのが、このパーティー、入場料が一般１０ドル、学生５ドル。さらに、ハンターMFAでは生徒会のお金でビールが既に買ってあって飲み放題、たった５ドルで６時間も楽しみました。コストパフォーマンスのことも考慮すると、間違いなく今までに行ったパーティーの中では一番のパーティーだったと言えます。
携帯でとった写真しかありませんが。載せておきます。
バンドの名前がわからないのですが、そのうち調べてまた改めて紹介します。

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PERFORMANCE, NIGHTLIFE
Resquiescat in Flux
By MELENA RYZIK
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Betty Alexandra Bastidas for The New York Times
Artists at work in the Flux Factory.

The Flux Factory, a long-running artists’ collective in Queens, has lost its building to the M.T.A. Friday they hand over the keys, but Thursday night they’re [...]

WNYC – The Flux Factory is Going Places
August 6, 2008
L Magazine – July 29, 2008
Matt Levy’s Lost in History: All Boro Bonanza
Spare Times – NYTIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/11wspare.html?ex=1373515200&en=5ddc117d0609ba4c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Flux Factory Is Hoping To Take You Away
http://www.queenstribune.com/leisure/FluxFactoryIsHopingToTakeY.html
A Couple Weekend Ideas
http://www.thelmagazine.com/lmag_blog/blog/post__06130801.cfm

full recount of “Action & Direction” with Matt Levy, Saturday, June 14th:
Lost in History vol. 65: Staten Island Adventures!
First grand tour of the Going Places (Doing Stuff) project

Art factory still in Flux about move
BY LISA L. COLANGELO
Tuesday, April 29th 2008, 4:00 AM

[...]

You may have heard already, we are loosing our space in Long island City.
you can read more about it here:
amNY/Newsday
http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-flux1219,0,1036878.story

Queens Chronicle

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19186405&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574903&rfi=6′

Queens Courier

http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2008/01/10/news/regional/northwest_west/news04.txt

Stamford Advocate

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/newyork/am-flux1219,0,7215939.story?coll=ny_news_local_newyork_head_1

BLOGS
http://curbed.com/archives/2007/12/19/lics_flux_factory_to_fall_for_commuter_tunnel.php/

http://gothamist.com/2007/12/20/in_flux.php

http://www.nolandgrab.org/archives/2007/12/eminent_domaini_56.html

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19186405&BRD=2731&PAG=461&dept_id=574903&rfi=6′
http://www.liqcity.com/arts/
http://queens.about.com/b/2007/12/19/vote-for-the-worst-of-queens-2007.htm

“Flux Factory” (NYC Media Group)

 
19/03/07 – NEW YORK DIARY

One man’s failure is another man’s work of art

[...]

Rueters News on Grizzly Proof
DIRECT LINK TO VIDEO

TRANSCRIPT – Grizzly bear art, 10 Mar 2007

Tucked away in an industrial section of Long Island City, New York, an art Gallery called the ‘Flux Factory’ is launching an unusual art exhibit.
‘Grizzly Proof’ draws together works from over 20 artists inspired the film ‘Project Grizzly, a documentary about [...]

March 9, 7:54 AM
Grizzly Proof Exhibit Comes To Flux Factory

Katerina Lanfranco’s bear diorama.

By JENNIFER POLLAND

Jean Barberis, the head curator at Flux Factory, was casually browsing through a thrift shop in Montreal when he stumbled on “a childish drawing of a grizzly bear fighting a robot.” Intrigued, he asked the clerk about the drawing. That led [...]

Time Out New York / Issue 597: March 8€“14, 2007
Kodiak moment
Eleven years after its release, Peter Lynch’s man-versus-bear documentary inspires artists at Flux Factory.
By Dan Avery
When Canadian documentary filmmaker Peter Lynch completed work on Project Grizzly in 1996, he knew he had something special on his hands. Detailing Troy Hurtubise’s quest to create the ultimate [...]

MONUMENTAL MOMENT
A playful approach to Tatlin’s Monument
By Aileen Torres
When I heard the title of Flux Factory’s latest show, Response to Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International Conceived in the Mood of Ambivalence, or R.T.T.M.T.T.T.I.C.I.T.M.O.A. for short, I thought I was going off to see a ridiculous, pretentious show full of highfalutin communist propaganda. I’m happy [...]

DAZED & CONFUSED
September 2006 Issue *41

In “Flux” with New York’s Coolest Factory
The Flux Factory
By Noah Davis
Flux Factory, a combination living space/art gallery housed in a warehouse in Queens, is located far enough from the worn hipster pathways of Manhattan and Brooklyn that Hopstopping directions to my cell phone is a necessity. Despite my foresight, I still end up lost in [...]

JULY 12, 2006
C. EDWARDS
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
On the corner of Broadway and Jay Street a paranoid loner wanders an office complex at night; across town, on Rue de Poire, Julia Child is born and dies at the age of 92. Meanwhile, on Aggravation Alley, Nadia Comaneci and a group of costumed bunnies drift through heaven, hell [...]

07/06/2006
Flux Factory Breathes Life Into Mini City
by Farida Hariyanawala
Peering inside each window of “November House” to see a dream sequence played out frame by frame is one of the many sites in the Flux Factory.
It’s fall in the city of Opolis. Natasha is taking a leisurely walk in the J.B. Liminal Park. She’s the same [...]

FluxBox: Exploding the Miniature
by Bethany Ryker

Drawing by Stefany Anne Goldberg
The crank on the side of a wind-up toy or a music box is not just a mechanical device that sets things in motion; it is a generator of suspense. You give it a few turns and the tension mounts. When you get to the point [...]

Thursday, April 20, 2006
Fluxbox
A look at a sound installation in Queens known as Fluxbox.
click to listen

issue of 2006-04-24
Posted 2006-04-17
(link)
“FLUXBOX”
Flux Factory offers a taste of authentic contemporary bohemianism, with a collective of seventeen-odd artists living in a warrenlike loft near the railroad tracks (and next to a Korean mega-church) and creating work together. The current project, “FluxBox,” is a room-size music box that uses homemade and found instruments – everything from [...]

L.I.C. art show
is dill-harmonic
BY CAITLIN KELLY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
It starts with – what else? – an electric pickle. A giant dill, replaced daily, contains enough salt converted into electrical impulses to power a roomful of funky, homemade musical instruments.
The dill is the opening act for Fluxbox, an art exhibition open until Saturday at the Flux [...]

direct link to online article..

Flux Factory is delighted to have been chosen to be a STAR participant in WNYC’s excellent program to support small non-profit cultural organizations.
We have been annointed, and we shall do our best to live up to the hopes and dreams of the entire WNYC listening community (and if we fail, please know that it was [...]

Ruminations On Replication: ‘Repeat After Me’ Opens At Flux Factory
by Jennifer Manley, Assistant Editor

Imagine for a moment molecular nanotechnology gone horribly awry: Through an accidental mutation or malicious act, the infinitesimally tiny machines (built to cure human disease, enable space travel and eliminate pollution) learn to self-replicate, systematically consuming all carbon matter and blanketing [...]

INS & OUTS MAGAZINE
ART WORK IN PROGRESS
By Justina Williams
Flux Factory’s warren of rooms unwinds like a Dr. Seuss landscape made manifest. Numerous small studio spaces spin off of common areas such as a library, darkroom, office, silkscreen area, well appointed shop, and a large exhibit/performance area.
Flux Factory began in 1994 in Williamsburg when a group [...]