While You Were Playing Rubik's Cube

An art show capturing the energy of the 80's, reconnecting to the era and transforming the experience into something new. Featuring artists presenting to you a 3D wall mural, a Space Invasion of NYC, video art through modified Nintendo, rebuilt Ataris, electronic musical devices, and more. www.fluxfactory.org Opening July 5th, 8pm Flux Factory, 38-38 43rd St, Long Island City (Queens)

While You Were Playing Rubik's Cube
@Flux Factory Gallery, 38-38 43rd Street, Long Island City (Queens)
opening July 5th, 8pm
closing tba
curated by Jean Barberis

www.fluxfactory.org

There was a day When Super Mario's last level was the Final frontier.
Nothing mattered more than saving the earth from Space Invaders.
Existence was a three dimensional world lived within comic books.
It was never so good to be a teenager.

These days are gone and Nintendo nes, Atari, and Commodore 64 are long forgotten. Except, maybe, for a few obscure Nerds and a handful of artists.
This show presents a selection of works emanating from that era, works that reflect and build on the particular feel of the 80s and what experience was like then. This is those teenagers grown up and reprocessing their childhoods. This show is not about nostalgia, it is about reconnecting to the specificity of that era through the medium of art and it is about transforming that experience into something new.

Game as a culture, binary as a language, pixel as an aesthetic.

Featuring artists Beige, Space Invader, Nathan Fox, Machismo, Justin Braun, Benjamin Heckendorn, Paul Slocum, David Griffin, and Brody Condon presenting to you a 3D wall mural, a Space Invasion of NYC, video art through modified Nintendo, rebuilt Ataris, electronic musical devices, and more.
http://www.beigerecords.com, www.space-invaders.com, www.machismoart.com

Take the V, R or G train to 36th Street. Walk east on Northern Blvd (towards the car billboard). Proceed down Northern to 42nd Place (there is a huge Pathmark on the corner, you can't miss it). Make a right on 42nd Place. Walk up the hill and across the train tracks to 38-38. (Please note: Our address is 38-38 43rd Street because 42nd Place turns into 43rd Street. This has been the source of some confusion.)
You can also take the 7 train to 40th St on Queens Boulevard, walk up to 43rd St and take a left. Once on 43rd, walk about three or four blocks passing under the train track bridge and presto. Both walks are about 5 minutes.

The door says Flux Factory.