GLOWLAB

Christina Ray is an independent curator and festival producer based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2002 she launched Glowlab as her platform for presenting site-specific art and technology projects and nurturing the cutting-edge work of artists inspired by urban life.

Ray has curated exhibitions for New York galleries including DCKT Contemporary, Leo Kesting Gallery and Gitana Rosa Gallery. Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach in 2007, she co-produced Fountain Miami, an independent art fair presenting ambitious installations by up-and-coming Williamsburg galleries. Ray recently collaborated with Scope Art Fair for a special project in Basel, Switzerland and has presented the work of Glowlab’s represented artists at Bridge Art Fair in New York.

Ray’s current projects include her role as founder and director of Conflux, the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. The festival is now expanding internationally to present satellite events in other cities following a successful collaboration with the Enzimi Festival in Rome in late 2007. Fall 2008 will mark Conflux’s five-year anniversary and the growth of the festival into an independent non-profit organization.

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. Fluent in Japanese, Ray traveled to live in Japan for four years where she worked with artists and cultivated a keen aesthetic and cultural awareness that has influenced the growth of Glowlab’s international focus. Her projects have been featured extensively in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Time Out, New York Press, Flash Art, Art Review, Adbusters and many others.

Ray has collaborated with and received support from respected organizations including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Puffin Foundation, The Independence Community Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Williamsburg Gallery Association, Intel’s Berkeley Research Lab, Southern Exposure, ISEA, Art Interactive, ABC No Rio, Participant Inc., DCKT Contemporary, Parsons School of Design, Hunter College, the Cooper Union, the University of Pennsylvania Design School and more.

Ray recently became a founding member of the Advisory Committee of the new 92YTribeca arts and entertainment venue, opening in the fall of 2008. In 2009, Ray’s work will be included in the books A Guide to Democracy in America, published by Creative Time, and Critical Play, written by Mary Flanagan and published by MIT Press.