Flatbush Library
22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11226
American Artist’s Faraday Study is a small room library visitors can use to read, study, and plan, absent of any cell service or WiFi signal. The room uses a signal-blocking fabric associated with survivalist practices of eliminating radio waves or protection from lightning strikes. While we find more innovative ways to maintain privacy in digital space, the only way to truly find privacy is through escape.
About American Artist
American Artist is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work extends Black radicalism and organized labor into a context of networked virtual life. American attended the Whitney Independent Study program and has exhibited at The Kitchen (New York), the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
About Flatbush Library
Brooklyn Public Library’s Flatbush Library serves one of Brooklyn’s most diverse communities. Its patrons include native speakers of English, Spanish, Kreyol and various African dialects, among other languages, and the library offers multilingual collections and programs to meet their needs.
Flatbush Library has served patrons in its present location on Linden Boulevard since 1905; it was the sixth library built in Brooklyn with funds from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.