Peter Edwards’s orbs will light up Flux Factory in sound-influenced installation
Flux Factory
39-31 29th St., Long Island City
July 2-3, free, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
www.fluxfactory.org
For the holiday weekend, creative electronics and circuit-bending artist, teacher, and writer Peter Edwards has installed “Specter Flux” at Flux Factory in Long Island City, on view Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 6:00 pm. Also known as casperelectronics, the Flux artist-in-residence has constructed three interactive orbs that glow and change colors based on the noise in its environment, with digital and analog technology transforming the sound of visitors (who are encouraged to make any noise they want) as well as Edwards’s playing of a synthesizer, into LED-generated light. In addition, Flux Factory will be holding Hackposium on July 2, featuring multimedia presentations, workshops, and performance art by Zacqary Adam Green and Plankhead, Jascon Tschantre, Syed Salahuddin and Joe Salina, Jordan Seiler, Benjamin Gaulon, Nick Normal, Ed Bear and Lea Bertucci, Jamie O’shea, Jeff Donaldson, Phil Stearns, and TwistyCat. In addition, Hope Ginsburg and SP Weather Station have teamed up with Beka Goedde, Nim Lee, and Marie Lorenz for the illustrated lecture “Water: Sponge” on July 3 at 4:00. The nonprofit Flux Factory is also hosting “Sea Worthy, Excursions,” in which visitors can sail on New York waterways in specially built seaworthy boats from the Gowanus Studio Space located at 166 Seventh St. in Brooklyn, including helping Natalia Porter and Ben Cohen build the Mexican watercraft the Trajinera (July 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, $65 donation).