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Conflux Starts Today!

Chris Kennedy wrote this post at 8:57 am on September 18th, 2009.

(Artist and Groundswell guest blogger Chris Kennedy makes projects for the land and for situated communities. His ongoing projects include Artiscycle, Groups and Spaces, and the Institute for Applied Aesthetics.)

The annual Conflux festival starts today in New York City…oddly sponsored by NYU an institutional monopoly of real estate and education in New York. But there are some great workshops to check out! Particularly Steve Lambert’s College of Tactical Culture: The CTC is a think tank on creative activism led by Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert, where participants traded experiences in order to inform practices, build relationships, and create space for new projects and collaborations.

Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment.

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