Steve Lambert has worked alongside artists and activists in 15 countries on 4 continents helping them to effect power. Trained in the arts, he is known for large scale, public projects that engage new audiences on difficult topics through the social science of comedy, games, theater, and democratic participation.
Lambert is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute to help activists be more creative and artists to be more effective.
As an artist, Lambert’s work has been shown everywhere from art galleries to protest marches to Times Square, both nationally and internationally, featured in four documentary films, and over two dozen books, and collected by museums and The Library of Congress. Lambert has presented at the United Nations several times. His research is included in a United Nations report on the impact of advertising on cultural rights and the basis of a book on popular understandings of capitalism.
He is Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College.
November 05, 2018Stephen Duncombe and I contributed a chapter for Art as Social Action, edited by Gregory Sholette and Chloe →
October 28, 2018Stephen Duncombe and I will be presenting at Guerilla Science 2018, “a conference for creatives who love science →
October 28, 201811×17 inches Two color, Risograph print on French Paper Signed and editioned Created in a limited edition and →
October 25, 2018On October 25, the C4AA was invited to give a talk and workshop at the Yale’s Jackson Institute →
October 22, 2018From October 15-21, 2018 the Center for Artistic Activism ran a new workshop in Skpoje, Macedonia. We are →
October 14, 2018Capitalism Works For Me! True/False was part of the White Night festival in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The piece →
September 03, 2018Panel as part of the “Words & Ideas” program at the Melbourne Fringe Festival Presented by The Wheeler →
September 03, 2018
September 02, 2018I’m returning the Melbourne Australia to present Capitalism Works for Me! True/False at the Melbourne Fringe Festival with →
June 17, 2018Stephen Duncombe and I will be speaking (as the Center for Artistic Activism) at this conference in Vancouver →
In May I gave this talk and did a panel (Solar Punk and going Post-Post-Apocalyptic) at the Re:Publica →
May 16, 2018I’ll be hosting this residency at the Corniolo Art Platform this summer. More info and application Practicing Decompression →
April 30, 2018I’ll be giving a Keynote at Re:Publica in Berlin. I believe all the talks at Re:Publica are live-streamed →
March 31, 2018