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:::: Floating Lab Collective _BIO_ ::::

The Floating Lab Collective is a Metropolitan Washington DC area-based group of artists. They began their activities as a collective in 2007 during Multimediale, a new media art show in Washington DC. Their first piece was titled “Protesting on Demand.” In 2007 they participated in a TRANSITiO_MX, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico, a media art festival, with a localized version of the piece “Protesting on Demand”. In 2008 The Floating Lab Collective was awarded a grant by The Creative Communities Initiative Program, from the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region Washington, DC in collaboration with Provisions Library and Gallery. For the creation of a Floating Museum, a food delivery truck was transformed into a mobile museum. The Floating Lab Collective has been invited to participate in the “Brushfire Project” a public art series to be displayed nationwide during 2008. The Floating Lab Collective is currently preparing a show titled 43.5 actions in Usonia, a series of participatory art pieces in collaboration with various communities. An in progress version was displayed at the Katzen Museum in Washington DC, as part of the show “Close Encounters: Facing the Future.” in Sept. 2008. Show Let's Talk!, The World Bank Art Program, World Bank Main Complex, Preston Lounge May 28 - June 28, 2009. Silver Spring Handmade Mart, May 30 2009. Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination in NYC, in Nathan Cummings Foundation, another look at the ongoing 43.5 actions in Usonia, took opened in June, 2009 and runs until Aug 28th, 2009.

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	:::: Floating Lab Collective _BIO_ :::: The Floating Lab Collective is a Metropolitan Washington DC area-based group of artists. They began their activities as a collective in 2007 during Multimediale, a new media art show in Washington DC. Their first piece was titled “Protesting on Demand.” In 2007 they participated in a TRANSITiO_MX, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico, a media art festival, with a localized version of the piece “Protesting on Demand”. In 2008 The Floating Lab Collective was awarded a grant by The Creative Communities Initiative Program, from the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region Washington, DC in collaboration with Provisions Library and Gallery. For the creation of a Floating Museum, a food delivery truck was transformed into a mobile museum. The Floating Lab Collective has been invited to participate in the “Brushfire Project” a public art series to be displayed nationwide during 2008. The Floating Lab Collective is currently preparing a show titled 43.5 actions in Usonia, a series of participatory art pieces in collaboration with various communities. An in progress version was displayed at the Katzen Museum in Washington DC, as part of the show “Close Encounters: Facing the Future.” in Sept. 2008. Show Let's Talk!, The World Bank Art Program, World Bank Main Complex, Preston Lounge May 28 - June 28, 2009. Silver Spring Handmade Mart, May 30 2009. Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination in NYC, in Nathan Cummings Foundation, another look at the ongoing 43.5 actions in Usonia, took opened in June, 2009 and runs until Aug 28th, 2009.