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Press Coverage
- “Fluid on Staten Island,” Staten Island Advance, Michael J. Fressola, 10/17/2014
- “Open Engagement Saturday: Focus on Newtown Creek Armada,” Art F City, Paddy Johnson, 5/21/2013
- “Combined Overflow: Artists Take on NYC’s Two Big Superfund Sites,” Untapped Cities, Alexander McQuilkin, 5/21/2013
- “Combined Overflow,” Urban Omnibus, 6/13/2014
- “Remote Voyages Exhibit Shows the Outcome of a Participatory Art Project Exploring Newtown Creek in Brooklyn,” Untapped Cities, Laura Itzkowitz, 11/18/2013
- “Spotlight: Superfund Research Fleet,” Imagine Science Films, Nate Dorr, 11/15/2013
- “Famed Sewer Explorer and Other Aquatic Artists Confront City’s Waterfront,” DNA Info, Meredith Hoffman, 11/5/2013
- “The murky depths below: Remote boats scan Gowanus,” Brooklyn Paper, Natalie Musumeci, 7/23/2013
- “Pilot Remote-Controlled Boats In The Gowanus,” Gothamist, Christopher Robbins, 7/12/2013
- “Arts & Sciences + Agreeing To Disagree,” AudioFiles, Eli Chen, 11/28/12
- “Caught in the Act: Art in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Independent Television, Abbey Adkinson, 10/24/12
- “On The Beat: Newtown Creek,” Municipal Art Society, Kate Lenahan, 10/8/12
- “What To Do This Weekend: Newtown Creek Armada, Dumbo Arts Festival, Atlantic Antic, And More!” Gothamist, Nell Casey, 9/28/12
- “New York Photos of the Week,” Wall Street Journal, 9/21/12
- “Poverty and the Ballot and Participatory Budgets,” CUNY TV, Brian Lehrer, 9/19/12
- “Floating Down Newtown Creek, Boats Made From its Trash,” The Wall Street Journal, Joshua Dawsey, 9/18/12
- “Goings On About Town: Above And Beyond,” The New Yorker, 9/17/12 (illustration, above, by David Sandlin)
- “Sail Away: Up A Creek,” NY Post, Chris Erikson, 9/14/12
- “Virtually Immersed in Toxic Waters,” Urban Omnibus, 9/14/12
- “Battleship Brooklyn: Mini Armada Attacks Superfund Site With Cameras,” Good, 9/14/12
- “Remote controlled boats make use of polluted water,” ABC News, Lauren Glassberg, 9/13/12
- “The Newtown Creek Armada,” Greenpoint Gazette, D. Perez, 9/13/12
- “Art installation teaches awareness on creek,” Greenpoint Star, Kathleen Lees, 9/12/12
- “Under the Muck,” Brooklyn Paper, Natalie O’Neill, 9/10/12
- “Pollution as Art: Radio-Controlled Armada Floats Where Canoes Dare Not Go,” Wired, Nathan Hurst, 9/8/12
- “Model Boats Set to Launch From Polluted Newtown Creek,” WNYC News, Annmarie Fertoli, 9/8/12
- “Artists Bring Attention to ‘One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Waterways’ With Art Boat Project,” Art Info, Allison Meier, 9/6/12
- “Model boats will explore contaminated New York City waterway,” Boing Boing, Mark Frauenfelder, 9/5/12
- “Dive Into Newtown Creek’s Toxic Waters,” Gothamist, Garth Johnston, 9/5/12
- “The Newtown Creek Armada Lets You Explore Some of the Filthiest Water in the City With Remote Controlled Boats,” Super Chief, 9/5/12
- “Newtown Creek Remote Control Boats Set to Launch,” DNA Info, Meredith Hoffman, 08/31/12
- “Boat on Newtown Creek Without Actually Boating on It,” Curbed NY, Sara Polsky, 08/08/12
- “Kickstarter Campaign Seeks to Bring Some Beauty to Newtown Creek,” Animal New York, Jane-Claire Quigley, 07/31/12
- “Dark Legacy, Points of Light: Photographers and Newtown Creek,” Professional Women Photographers, Catherine Kirkpatrick, 07/08/12
- “Newtown Creek Armada Project and the Black Mayonnaise,” Arts in Bushwick, Kerosene Rose, 05/31/12
- “Brooklyn Artists to Film Newtown Creek Filth with Remote-Control Boats,” DNA Info, Meredith Hoffman, 02/14/12
- “Newtown Creek Armada art project to set sail on polluted Greenpoint waterway,” New York Daily News, Erin Durkin, 11/22/11
- “Newtown Creek Armada to Sail Miniature Fleet on Polluted Waterway,” L Magazine, Benjamin Sutton, 11/11/11
- “Artists will put cameras on boats in the Newtown Creek,” The Brooklyn Paper, Aaron Short, 11/11/11
- “Public Art Project for Greenpoint Announced,” The Greenpoint Gazette, Jeff Mann, 11/09/11s
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