Urban historian and guerrilla photographer Steve Duncan will give keynote address at seventh annual Conflux Festival (“Sewer, NYC” photo © Steve Duncan)
NYU Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant St.
October 8-10, $5-$9
www.confluxfestival.org
More than seventy-five digital artists will converge on the East Village and the Lower East Side for the seventh annual Conflux festival, which focuses on “contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological, and social practice.” The festivities begin Friday night with the keynote address from urban historian and guerrilla photographer Steve Duncan, followed by a live multimedia performance of “Ulysses Syndrome” by the Soundwalk collective. Saturday’s activities include a sermon and walking tour with Reverend Billy and Savitri D and the panel discussions “FlowSlow,” “Super G Residency,” and “Public-Space Art and Foursquare,” ending with a live performance by Fall on Your Sword. There will be more panel discussions on Sunday, including one hotly anticipated gathering of Duncan, Moses Gates, Julia Solis, and twi-ny fave Miru Kim, in addition to a live “Forwards/Backwards” performance by Mike Rugnetta and Patrick Davison. Another cool aspect of Conflux is a group of site-specific installations, workshops, and performances, including “Tone Garden” by Stephanie McCarty and Andrew Siu, “Barcode Cinema” by Kristin Lucas and Lee Montgomery, “I cannot compete with this” by Rebecca Nagle (in Times Square), “Six Degrees of Attachment” by Nathaniel Lieb and Sarah Nelson Wright, “Love Box” by Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown, “Urban Hobo” by Betsy Davis, “Public Utility Trail Network” by Katarina Jerinic, “Knish Alley Revival” by Laura Silver, and “Telepresence” by Derek Lerner, among dozens of others.