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Tues Dec 27, 2011 (7-9:30 pm) A Winter Gumbo + Cider Cocktail Fundraiser to benefit REV's partner, Newsmotion. Newsmotion is an innovative platform for civic media, public art, and documentary reportage.
Oct 27, 2011 El Bibliobandido Siting at MIT's Center for Civic Media - El Bibliobandido crashed a recent talk at MIT's Media Lab, bedevilling and beguiling audience members until they coughed up a few stories including this one by Ethan Zuckerman.
Sat Dec 3, 2011 (8 pm)

Best Practices in Banana Time at MASS MoCA

. Early Dec - ongoing through 2012

New Day New Standard, an audio talk show produced by Marisa Jahn for People's Production House that informs domestic workers and their employers about the new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. More soon!

. Sat Feb 25, 2012 (10am - noon) Marisa Jahn presents in "Art in the Public Realm: Activism and Interventions"- College Art Association (Los Angeles)
. Sat Feb 25, 2012 (3-5 pm) Marisa Jahn presents in"Art in the Public Realm: Creating New Paradigms for the Future" and Open Forum discussion - College Art Association (Los Angeles)
. Feb 22-25, 2012 Stephanie Rothenberg and Dan Wang present in "Tourism and Culture" - College Art Association (Los Angeles)
. Fall 2012 In World's Fair 2.0, Stephanie Rothenberg and youth reporters from People's Production House create an augmented reality tour of World's Fair 2012 for Regeneration, an exhibition curated by Steve Dietz and Amanda Parkes at The New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY) Fall 2012

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A Winter Gumbo + Cider Martini Fundraiser
to benefit REV-'s partner, Newsmotion

Co-founded by Julian Rubinstein, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Marisa Jahn, Newsmotion is an innovative platform for civic media, public art, and documentary reportage.
 . Best Practices in Banana Time
A mixed reality talk show exploring new forms of online labor in the global, digital workplace.
. New Day New Standard
Produced by People's Production House with REV-, this humorous and creative audio campaign accessible by web and telephone call-in informs domestic workers (nannies, housekeepers, elder caregivers) and their employers about the landmark Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights. Stay tuned for more information soon!
. World's Fair 2.0
A partnership with People's Production House to create a virtual "augmented-reality" vision of a 2012 World's Fair located on the former fairgrounds.The goal—a World's Fair created not by corporations or the government, but by the community of Queens.
 . Byproduct: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices
A series of texts by artists, activists, curators, and interdisciplinary thinkers that interrogate projects by cultural practitioners “embedded” in industries, the government, and other non-art sectors.
Ticketing Jessica Lappin
A public art project drawing attention to the recent attempt to legislatively criminalize food vendors in New York City.
Bibliobandido
Recently, in El Pital, a village in rural Honduras, a masked bandit calling himself the Bibliobandido ambled through town in broad daylight, mounted on a burro.
10 sec. 1 bayt
A competition for the best 10 second poem inspired by the Persian/Tajik tradition of the 2-line poem ('bayt') and the emergent art form developed by Tajiks whose cell phone plan includes the first 10 secs. for free...
Recipes for an Encounter
An interdisciplinary exploration of the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed...
Where We Are Now
A network and online journal with the mission to illuminate, deepen and amplify the discourse of aesthetic and political practices in New York City.
Companion | Parafacts & Parafictions
If a ‘parafiction’ operates in that space between fictional and real, alongside this term we might position a second: a ‘parafact’—an artwork that more stringently draws from the real—but a ‘real’ whose narrative is so curious, exquisite, or implausible so as to call into question its own veracity...


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