Christina Ray

Current

• Founder/Executive Producer at Conflux Festival
• Founder/Gallery Director at Glowlab Productions LLC

Education

• Connecticut College

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Industry

Fine Art

Christina Ray’s Summary

Christina Ray has produced artist projects, performances and site-specific interventions for city streets and exhibition spaces since founding Glowlab in 2002. She currently serves as the gallery's Director. As a consultant and educator, Ray has participated on panels and juries with Rhizome, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Eyebeam, the Van Alen Institute and others, and has taught interactive media at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Ray is also the founder of Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, and has led the festival as Director since its inauguration in 2003. She is currently serving as Key Artistic Advisor for Times Square Public Art Planning with the Times Square Alliance and recently became a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue.

Christina Ray’s Specialties:

Art consulting and curating, art acquisition, exhibition and festival production, large-scale public space art project commissioning

Christina Ray’s Experience

• Founder/Executive Producer

  Conflux Festival

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

  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. With tools ranging from traditional paper maps to high-tech mobile devices, artists present walking tours, public installations and interactive performance, as well as bike and subway expeditions, workshops, a lecture series, a film program and live music performances at night.

• Founder/Gallery Director

  Glowlab Productions LLC

  (Fine Art industry)

  April 2002 — Present (7 years 8 months)

  Glowlab is an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York. We collaborate with and present the works and projects of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.

Christina Ray’s Education

• Connecticut College

  BA , Japanese Studies , 1987 — 1991

Additional Information

Christina Ray’s Interests:

URBAN EXPERIENCE AND DESIGN, Psychogeography, Cartography, Interaction Design, Experimental Travel, Innovative Shelter, Radical Architecture, Mental-Mapping, Experimental Urbanism, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC, CITIZEN MEDIA, Open-source, Culture Jamming, Creative Activism, Skill-sharing, Community-building, DIY, Crowdsourcing, Change Agents, PLACE/TIME-BASED ART, Contemporary Art, Street art, Photography, Screen-printing, Drawing, Artist Books, Installation, Interactive Art, Social Intervention, Urban Exploration, Collaborative Performance, Play, Storytelling, Soundscapes, Industrial Archaeology, Graffiti, Relational Aesthetics, Documentary Filmmaking, Participatory Experiments, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, Mixed-Reality Gaming, Ubiquitous Computing, Augmented Reality, Social Networks, Pervasive Tech, Immersive Narrative, Wearable Tech, GREEN FUTURE, Urban Gardening, Transportation Alternatives, Sustainable Development, Social Entrepreneurship, Creative Re-use, Freecycling, Urban Gardening

Christina Ray’s Groups:

92Y Tribeca [Advisory Board Member], Glowlab, Conflux Festival, Ladies Lotto, Girls in Tech, SXSWi 2007, Dodgeball, ZeroOne San Jose, Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies [KCJS], American Field Service

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•    MuseumLink
•    BizBash—Event Planners Gather
•    American Field Service (AFS)
•    Brand 3.0
•    Connecticut College
•    Conflux Festival
•    Technology in the Arts
•    Contemporary Art network group
•    Art Collecting Network
•    Mavin Digital Mashup
•    Ladies Lotto
•    Green Events Guide

Christina Ray’s Honors:

Grants/Commissions include: Puffin Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Southern Exposure, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Artists Space

Christina Ray’s Contact Settings

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