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Cara Baldwin Favorite color combination: photo luminescent white, perriwinkle and blood red | Favorite cardinal direction: North | Favorite bird: Cardinal | Favorite flower: Dogwood | Favorite factoid of the day: The artist who designed the American flag in 1776, Francis Hopkinson, also designed US currency and official seals. His requested payment of "a quarter cast of the public wine" was denied by Congress who claimed they were unable to pay him individually for work he did in collaboration with others. | Cara Baldwin is a cultural consumer/producer who lives/works in Los Angeles |
Andrew Boyd, a pioneer of viral activism, is one of the driving forces behind Billionaires for Bush (www.billionairesforbush.com). He founded, and for several years directed, the Arts and Action program at United for a Fair Economy. He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU and lectures around the country. His writing has appeared in The Nation, the Village Voice and several anthologies on recent social movements. Andrew is also the author of The Activist Cookbook, a source book on creative direct action, as well as several odd philosophical humor books published by W. W. Norton (all of which can be sampled at www.wanderbody.com). |
Ava Bromberg and Brett Bloom live in Chicago and work together as “In The Field.” They collaborate with seven others on an experimental cultural space in Chicago called Mess Hall. Their forthcoming book Making Their Own Plans includes groups from diverse cities using creative processes to realize urban planning from below. Ava is presently organizing an exhibition with NYC's Center for Urban Pedagogy titled The City without a Ghetto: Housing Systems. Brett works with Temporary Services. Contact them: avabe4[at]ekno.com and brettbloom[at]sbcglobal.net |
Rachel Caidor has lived informative lifetimes in Miami Florida, South Bend Indiana, and Chicago Illinois and is trying to make sense of it all. In there she developed a commitment to social justice, feminism, liberatory movements of radical people of color, independent culture, learning, and tube tops. Today, Rachel lives in Chicago where she works on a rape crisis hotline and is too often found curling her hair, complaining about the cold, taking notes, and observing white people being racist. haitiansensation@pinkbloque.org |
Aimee Chang is curatorial assistant at the UCLA Hammer Museum. She has written recently on the artists Edgar Arceneaux and Song Dong. Upcoming curatorial projects include an exhibition at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis and a co-organized exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum. |
Kate Coyer is a refugee from commercial radio and is currently trying to finish her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London where she writes about community media. She has been producing radio and helping make mischief since 1986. |
Jene Despain is a SF transplant, who likes turtles, knitting and taking rich men's money and using it to collapse the ladder of privilege and capitalism they stand on. |
Colin Dickey teaches writing and literature at National University in San Bernardino. His fiction is forthcoming in TriQuarterly and smalldoggies. |
Stephen Duncombe teaches the history and politics of media and culture at the Gallatin School of New York University. He is the author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Verso, 1997), the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader (Verso, 2002), and has written for numerous publications ranging from The Baffler to Z Magazine. Stephen is also a life-long political activist, most recently working with Reclaim the Streets/New York City. |
Malik Gaines and Alex Segade have been working together on performance projects since they first met in the UCLA dorms in 1991. After college, Malik studied writing at CalArts and Alex studied film at USC. Later, they formed My Barbarian with collaborator Jade Gordon, a band and performance organization www.mybarbarian.com. In addition to their collaborative work, Malik writes for theater and contributes arts criticism to numerous publications, including ArtUS, of which he is an editor. Alex continues to work in theater, video and other visual media, having shown work in group exhibitions (American Fine Arts Co., Marc Foxx, among others), film festivals and performance spaces like the HBO Workspace. In 2003, they founded DreamCurse, a film, television, theater and performance studies think tank. DreamCurse approaches performance as an interactive medium where no distinction is made between action and critique. |
Dara Greenwald was born into a Gurdjieff-based intentional community; it was the 70's, you know. She went on to get an unofficial education in punk ethics, social service, community action, and official education in academic feminism, art and the careerist individualism that goes along with them. She now spends her time negotiating contradicting notions of the good life. dawa@pinkbloque.org |
Katie Grinnan is an artist in Los Angeles who shows at Acme gallery and is in the current Whitney Biennial. When she is not making art, favorite pastimes include gardening, making yummy pressed sandwiches, camping, and reading horoscopes. Current projects include making wizard sculptures and brewing beer. |
Colleen Hennessey lives and makes work in Los Angeles. leenhennessey@earthlink.net |
Marc Herbst will, in conversation, inevitably bring up his garden regardless of how well it grows. “I am a firm believer in the criminal element that lays weighting in my yard!” he screams in bouts between his producing the plastic arts, writing, editing and making art. He claims to imagine one day where he is writing a non-nostalgic social history of food cooperatives, in truth he is but a lowly printmaker. sparkle@c-level.cc |
Robby Herbst is for real. rherbst@journalofaestheticsandprotest.org |
John Jordan spends his time trying to find a space where the imagination of art and the social engagement of politics can be brought together. For 10 years he was a co-director of Platform, the London based art and social science group. Since 1994 he has worked in the direct action movements, principally with Reclaim the Streets (1995-2001). He has written and lectured extensively about the anti-capitalist movement and was a senior lecturer in fine art at Sheffield-Hallam University (1994-2003). He lives in London and mixes his time between trying to creatively overthrow capitalism and looking after his son Jack. He has just co-edited We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism put out by Verso, and is now busy mustering the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. www.weareeverywhere.org |
Twenty-some-odd years ago a young and bookish Felicia Luna Lemus convinced herself Patti Smith growled “Free Money” just for her. Punk worshipper from that day forward, Lemus lives to write about subversive and blessedly tangled lives. Her first novel, Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2003). When she’s not busy writing smutty short stories, Lemus works on her second novel. |
Kevin Lindamood writes: I've got a degree in journalism from the Universtity of Georgia and am a principal partner/owner in OfficeOps. Video and photography are my primary pursuits and I've been living in New York for five years. I'm from Waynesboro Virginia |
Lize Mogel is an artist who is interested in maps as a populist tool for intervening into public space. She has a collection of three cartons of de-acquisitioned maps from the Los Angeles Public Library which she will someday do something with. www.publicgreen.com |
Graciela Monteagudo is an Argentinean organizer, street theater maker and performer who has coordinated puppet and street theater actions in Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico, the US and Canada against the WEF, the SOA and G8. She also works with Bread and Puppet in Glover, Vermont. Her use of art and theater grew out of her organizing for human rights in post-dictatorship Argentina. She coordinates the argentina autonomista project (www.autonomista.org), an exchange program between Americans and Argentina. Her recent show "Que se vayan tod@s, a cardboard piece" is currently touring the US and Europe. She spends time in Vermont and Buenos Aires with her 8-year-old son, Jan. |
Oliver Ressler (born 1970) lives and works as an artist in Vienna. He carries out exhibitions, site-specific projects and videos on issues such as racism, economic globalization and forms of resistance. His ongoing exhibition project "Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies" has been realized in Galerija Skuc in Ljubljana Slovenia and Kunstraum Lueneburg Germany. www.ressler.at |
Victor Hugo Sanchez Resendez is a writer and researcher who lives in the state of Morelos, Mexico. His extensive writings on the radical roots of the 1911 Zapatista rebellion include the recently published book, De Rebeldes, Fe (From Rebellion Comes Faith). He has also co-produced several documentary videos on the subject. |
Damon Rich is a former municipal bureaucrat who designs, teaches, writes, and sometimes consults. More information about the Center For Urban Pedagogy can be found at www.anothercupdevelopment.org. |
Benjamin Shepard works by day at a syringe exchange; by night he struggles to beat off the blue meanies looming large. He also works for Radical Society (formerly Socialist Review), writes pamphlets, a book review here and there and struggles against the eminent gloom. He is author/co-editor of two books: White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (Cassell, 1997) and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (Cassell, 2002). He can be reached at benshepard@mindspring.com. |
Gregory Sholette is an artist, writer, activist and founding member of Political Art Documentation and Distribution and the REPOhistory. He is the Batza Family Chair of Art and Art History at Colgate University for Spring, 2004. |
Marina Sitrin is an anti-authoritarian activist, writer and dreamer based in NYC. She has spent a good part of the last year in Argentina working with the autonomous social movements to develop an oral history of both the practice and the process of creation. The book will be published in Spanish and English in the fall of 2004. |
Emilio Sparato. Soy militante desde los 13 años, comencé en el ecologismo dentro de Greenpeace Argentina, siempre intentando vincular las causas ambientales con lo sectores sociales. Posteriormente participe en ocupaciones con fines políticos y viví de muy cerca los desalojos producidos por el anterior gobierno de Eduardo Duhalde. Actualmente vivo y trabajo en un espacio social ocupado en el barrio Porteño de la Boca, donde estamos empezando a hacer talleres y funciones artísticas, a la vez que agitamos y nos relacionamos con las familias del barrio que al igual que nosotros están en situación de ocupación. |
Nato Thompson is Assistant Curator at MASS MoCA. His writings on contemporary art and politics have appeared in Parkett, New Art Examiner, tema celeste and In These Times. He is currently curating an exhibition surveying the political art of the ‘90s titled “The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere.” |
United- Networks is run by Sofie Sweger and
is based in Stockholm. |
Christina Ulke is an artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. Dedicated to the public domain, she likes to work collaboratively and site-specifically. Her public art installations utilize technology to create participatory spaces that open up possibilities for public discourse. A recent work, Electricity Fountain in collaboration with Marc Herbst, proposes free access to electricity generated by near-by solar sculptures. In 2004 she and Ashok Sukumaran received the David Bermant Foundation Grant for The Savant Guard, their interactive public sculpture in Pasadena. |
Kimberly Varella likes to read, smell, hold, and design books. kimberly@varelladesignstudio.com |