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Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 4: The Billboard Hot 100
This episode we had author, philosopher, and punk rock drummer Max Trembley tour us through hit songs on the Billboard…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 3: Mini-sode, 50 Shades of Grey
Recorded live in South Africa. 50 Shades of Grey, a series of books and a movie dealing with “deviant” or…
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 2: TGI Fridays
This month the Center for Artistic Activism heads to TGI Friday’s in New York’s Union Square.
Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions 1: Transformers Age of Extinction
In our first expedition the Center for Artistic Activism will watch the highest grossing worldwide movie of 2014, and one…
School for Creative Activism Barcelona
At the School for Creative Activism in Barcelona, we created a carnival outside a hospital to demonstrate the arbitrary pricing…
We built a beach in St. Petersburg
Stephen Duncombe and I did a Center for Artistic Activism, Arts Action Academy workshop in St. Petersburg. The culmination was…
Center for Artistic Activism interview in We Make Money Not Art
An interview Stephen Duncombe and I did about the Center for Artistic Activism was published on the site We Make…
The School for Creative Activism in Scotland
This is a short video about out work around democracy in Scotland last November. It gives an idea of what…
Activist Art: Does it Work? | open!
Stephen Duncombe and I published a column called “Activist Art: Does it Work?” for Open! Magazine. It begins like this:…
For Pakistani Artists, an Exercise in Creative Activism
Midway through a workshop on creative activism the morning of November 22, a group of Pakistani visual artists visiting NYU…
MediaImpact: International Festival of Activist Art
MediaImpact: International Festival of Activist Art Festival presentation, talks and debates 16 November 2012, 7:00pm 34 Stuyvesant Street, Barney Building…
Creative Time Summit Presentation
A short talk on Capitalism Works For Me! True/False given at the annual Creative Time Summit.
Creative Activism Thursdays at NYU: Steve Lambert
I’m speaking at the Hemispheric Institute on April 19. Steve Lambert made international news after the 2008 US election with…
“Political Expressionism” and Other Fallacies of Political Art
Speaking with Stephen Duncombe at Carnegie Mellon University Stephen Duncombe and Steve Lambert are directors of the new Center for…
I have a piece in the upcoming Beautiful Trouble book
Beautiful Trouble is a collection of tactics and strategies for Creative Activism. Seven grassroots groups are contributing their best ideas,…