[About]
Who we are, where we come from, why it matters now.
FLUX Art Space is a New York City nonprofit arts organization. We foster, create and support experimental work through interdisciplinary projects in the digital arts and education.
[Mission]
Our projects reach people and youth at the margins by building open platforms, open knowledge and civic dialogue: spaces where a teenager, an artist and a neighbor make culture on equal terms. We present established and emerging artists next to first-time makers. We teach technology as a medium for thinking, and we ask who owns the tools, who writes the rules and who gets to be in the room.
[Vision]
"A city where access to technology, to knowledge and to the making of culture belongs to everyone who lives in it."
[What we hold to]
Every project leaves something others can use, remix and continue.
Methods, research and results are shared with the communities they come from.
Art is the occasion for public conversation about technology, access and economy.
Process is the work. Unfinished ideas are welcome here.
Digital culture needs a physical room, and ours is open to those who come to build.
[History]
Founded in 2002. Returning now.
FLUX Art Space was founded in 2002 as a New York City nonprofit and has been active as a project since 2001. It began with a plain conviction: digital art is a public good, and the communities furthest from technology should be the first invited to shape it.
In its first years FLUX presented digital works and interdisciplinary projects by established and emerging artists, and built youth programs with museums, galleries and international art centers. Young people aged 13 to 17 collaborated across borders, curated virtual exhibitions on the FLUX web site, and researched the Digital Divide and its creative twin, the Creative Divide.
The questions FLUX began with have grown sharper. Access now means access to networks, to AI, and to the knowledge that decides how both are used. FLUX answers with the same method: open platforms, open knowledge and civic dialogue, made together with the people they are meant for.
[Leadership]
Natalia Ivanova
Co-founder and Executive Director
Curator, writer and cultural theorist. Natalia has led Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland and Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, where she founded Redhouse Art Radio. She is the author of The Commons: of Friends and Lovers (Pro Arts COMMONS Press, 2022), co-authored with Marc Herbst, and served as an international curatorial fellow in Berlin from 2023 to 2024.
FLUX Art Space is a 501(c)(3) public charity. EIN available upon request.
[Headquarters]
The Office — 50 East Broadway, Room 201
Chinatown, New York City
50 East Broadway, Room 201
New York, NY
Chinatown
Visits by appointment and for scheduled programs. Write to us to arrange one.
FLUX Art Space is headquartered at The Office, 50 East Broadway, Room 201, in New York's Chinatown, the home of Art Agency Reframed. The Office began as a private, by-invitation research studio and conceptual art agency. It works like a book, a live essay or a play, and each artist or collaborator who enters adds a chapter.
We chose a physical room on purpose. As AI takes over more of what happens on screens, people gathering in one place, sharing a table and a question, is the most valuable infrastructure a cultural organization can hold. Chinatown, with its history of mutual aid, small enterprise and neighborhood institutions, is the right place to hold it.
FLUX Art Space and Art Agency Reframed are separate organizations that share a space. FLUX is a nonprofit and its programs serve the public.
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