free103point9 is pleased to be covering this year's Conflux festival based on themes of INVESTIGATION, ACTION and TRANSMISSION. We'll be on site to record performances and interview participating artists. Conflux is accepting submissions for the 7th Annual Conflux Festival, which will run October 08-10! Through an open submissions process, Conflux will provide a platform for artists, urban geographers, technologists and others to organize and produce innovative activities dedicated to the examination, celebration and (re)construction of everyday urban life. Conflux proposals must be submitted by August 15 ($10 administrative fee). All proposals will be judged based on artistic merit, originality, and feasibility. Check the FAQ for guidelines and details. Conflux participants will transform New York’s East Village into a laboratory for creative experimentation and civic action. Through public interventions, artist-facilitated walks and tours, interactive performances and installations, bike and subway expeditions, and more, Conflux artists will confront and rewrite the rules of urban public space. The Conflux headquarters will be located in NYU Steinhardt’s Barney Building and will include a festival cafe and lounge. The HQ will serve as a central communications hub during the festival where artists and attendees can meet, swap ideas, and establish new communities of practice. Cutting-edge public space artists will be available in the headquarters throughout the weekend to skillshare, engage in conversation, entertain and provoke.

An evening of new instrumentalists and explorers of exotic sounds, organized by Hudson-based guitarist Alexander Turnquist featuring Liam Singer, Dream Massage, Summer Mummy, Alexander Turnquist, and Noveller. Live webstream on WGXC Online Radio at www.wgxc.org. Tune in by clicking here or pasting the following url into your computer's media player: http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/hudson.mp3.m3u

Join free103point9's Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter for an application seminar for the next cycle of Distribution Grants to New York State Artists.The deadline for online proposal submission is October 31. The 2011 Distribution Grant for New York State Artists provides support for the distribution of new works in film, video, sound, new-media, and media-installation. Funding is available from free103point9 through a regrant from New York State Council on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film Program. Grant awards will assist artists in making works available to public audiences and may include, but are not limited to: moving image and sound works; duplication of preview, screening and exhibition copies; promotional materials including documentation and schematics of media-installation and new-media works. The rental or purchase of equipment essential for exhibition/distribution by individual artists is also eligible. Artists may request funding support up to a maximum amount of $10,000.

Successful grantees will also be awarded the opportunity to work with a project mentor who will offer guidance as grantees execute their distribution and exhibition plans. This mentor will have expertise in the grantees' specific genre of media art.

This seminar is being presented as part this year's Conflux festival based on themes of INVESTIGATION, ACTION and TRANSMISSION. (http://confluxfestival.org/)