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REV- is composed of individuals and organizations who use art as form of social practice. We are artists, community organizers, youths & families, architects, socially-responsible businesses, botanists, designers, educators, activists, & *$#(@!!.

Who We Are
Marisa Jahn, Artistic Co-Director
Rachel McIntire, Artistic Co-Director
Stephanie Rothenberg, Artistic Co-Director
Merve Unsal, Editorial Assistant
Lisa Larson Walker, Editorial Assistant

Collaborators & Partners
REV- is composed of individuals and organizations from varying ages, ethnic/cultural backgrounds, and fields—artists, activists, botanists, designers, engineers, architects, educators, youth, and &*$#(@!!. REV-‘s collaborators, supportors, and partners include:
• Non-profit art organizations: Western Front (Vancouver), YYZBOOKS (Toronto), Arttexte (Montreal), the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), Not An Alternative (NYC)
• Advocacy groups: NYC Park Advocates, Retail Action Project (NYC)
• Artists: Reverend Billy & The Church of Stopshopping
• Youth and Community-Based Organizations: Un Mundo (El Pital, Honduras), Bactria (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), Sogdiana Cultural Center (Khojand, Tajikistan)

Marisa Jahn - Artistic Director
Of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Jahn is an artist/writer/activist whose work explores, constructs, and intervenes systems. In 2009, with Stephanie Rothenberg and Rachel McIntire, Jahn founded REV-, a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. From 2000-2009, Jahn co-directed “Pond: art, activism, & ideas,” an organization dedicated to experimental public art. Her work has been presented in public spaces and venues such as the The MIT Museum (Cambridge, US); ICA (Philadelphia, US); ISEA/Zero One (San Jose, US); Eyebeam (New York, US); MOCANOMI (Miami, US); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan), and in San Francisco, US At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Asian Art Museum, and more. Jahn received a MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has received awards and grants from UNESCO, Robert & Eileen Haas Foundation, CEC Artslink, Franklin Furnace, Canada Council, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and more. In 2009 Jahn is an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Media Lab, the Headlands Center for the Arts, an artist participating in CEC Artslink/Global Art Lab’s project in Tajikistan, and the inaugural curatorial fellow at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. She is the co-editor of the online journal Where We Are Now: Locating Art & Politics in NYC (www.wherewearenow.org) and two books—‘Recipes for an Encounter’ (Western Front, 2009) and ‘Byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices’ (YYZ Books, 2010). www.marisajahn.com

Rachel McIntire - Artistic Director
Rachel McIntire has been engaged in the study of art, education and culture for over ten years. These studies have been guided by questions that explore how the arts are used in providing narrative generating opportunities for individuals and groups. Before pursuing her Master’s Degree from Harvard’s School of Education, Rachel played a fundamental role in developing a cadre of art-based programs serving youth throughout the Bay Area, including the art program at the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, The International Art Alliance, East Palo Alto Mural Art Project, and the International Mural Campesino, which was created to promote the use of visual representation as an agent for social change and youth leadership in the rural towns of eastern Honduras. Upon graduating, Rachel lived in Mexico City where she continued her research of the role of the arts in community development examining how the arts can promote transformative dialogues in public space. While in Mexico she worked with La Secretaria de Educacion Publica in Mexico City in the Department of International Relations developing public arts curricula that supports youth in transmigration between the US and Mexico for largest binational education program, PROBEM. Also in Mexico, Rachel collaborated with numerous arts groups and artists that serve marginalized youth. Since 2005 Rachel and partner Amanda Lichtenstein have worked to develop Break Arts. Rachel’s holds brings over ten years of experience non-profit management, program development and curriculum design and program assessment. This work has led to diverse projects in Honduras, New York and Northern California serving Catholic Social Services, Art Up, Pond: Ideas Art & Activism, Hope Inc, St. Francis of Assisi Boy’s Club, Zero One, Brooklyn Fireproof, and internationally, Un Mundo, Jacaranda Education and La Secreta.

Stephanie Rothenberg - Artistic Director
Stephanie Rothenberg is an artist and educator using performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. She has lectured and exhibited at venues including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Zer01 Festival, Banff New Media Institute, Hallwalls Media Art Center, ConFlux Festival, Amsterdam International Film Festival and the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. Recent awards include a 2009 Creative Capital, 2008 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist award (NYSCA), a 2007 Eyebeam Artist-in-Residence in NYC and a free103point9 Artist-in-Residence. She received her MFA in 2003 from The Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo.

Merve Ünsal - Editorial Assistant
Merve Ünsal is an artist/writer based in New York. Native of Istanbul, Turkey, she has recently finished an Internet-based artist’s project questioning the nature of political crime and is currently working on various writing/research/editorial projects: www.merveunsal.com, www.merveunsal.com/try.

Lisa Larson Walker - Editorial Assistant