Glowlab

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1 About
2 Projects and Artists
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] About

Glowlab is an artist-run initiative that produces and presents experimental work related to cities and psychogeography. Founded in 2001 by Christina Ray, Glowlab is the producer of the Psy-Geo-Conflux, currently known as the Conflux Festival, which takes place annually in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The Village Voice described Glowlab's Conflux as a "network of maverick artists and unorthodox urban investigators… making fresh, if underground, contributions to pedestrian life in New York City, and upping the ante on today’s fight for the soul of high-density metropolises.” ^[1] Proflux, an annual festival based out of Providence, Rhode Island and developed by the Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies is an offshoot of the Conflux Festival. Glowlab develops interactive artworks and projects, curates events and exhibitions, hosts artists gatherings, and maintains a web-based magazine.

[edit] Projects and Artists

In addition to the annual Conflux Festival, Glowlab has initiated a number of projects that focus on the exploration of public space.

One Block Radius, produced for The New Museum in 2004 by Christina Ray and David Mandl created a web based "psychogeographic portrait of a single Bowery block" with the help of media contributions from artists and the public.^[2] in Manhattan. Open Lab, at Art Interactive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a nine-week series of "deceptively simple, playful investigations of site and the social fabric of Central Square, Cambridge" ^[3]. At Southern Exposure in San Francisco, Ray and Kurt Bigenho invited people to step away from the intensive social networking of internet sites like Myspace and Friendster, and engage in non-social meetups in real space in their project Noso^[4].

Artists and groups who have been associated with Glowlab include Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Bethany Bristow, D. Jean Hester, Brian House, Catherine D'Ignazio (aka Kanarinka), Steve Lambert, David Mandl, Marisa Olson, Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, Sal Randolph, Jesse Shapins, Swoon, Jessica Thompson, Lee Walton, and Wooster Collective.