What is our work worth to each other?
I'm a co-founder of OurGoods.org and Trade School.
Social Practice MFA Lecture @ PSU
http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/portland-state-university-art-and-social-practice-mfa-lecture-series/
Trade School 3 opens? TBA…
http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/
I’m presenting @ MIT’s Center for Civic Media
http://civic.mit.edu/
I’m representing Trade School in Delhi, India
check back for more info…
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/10/175676.htm
Rich Watts and I have furniture @ The Milan Furniture Fair
http://www.publicdesignfestival.org/portal/IT/contents/generic_home.php
I’m presenting my work @ MoMA’s Think Tank called Audience Experiments: Contemporary Art in the Age of the Spectacle
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/8586
I’m speaking about OurGoods @ The Walker Art Center.
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5666
I’m speaking about value and connection @ The Feast Salon. http://feastsalon4.eventbrite.com/.
Let’s have a three-hour conversation about value, alternative economies, and the problems of exchange.
http://welcomedoubleagent.com/2010/radicalcitizenship.html
Idea Party @ Taller Bouricua, run by myself and curator Erin Marie Sickler
http://www.thefield.org/p-701-skills-swap-idea-party.aspx
http://www.tallerboricua.org/
The school lunchroom is a barter market place…
http://www.beamcamp.com/beam-summer_camp-blog/
Come to BEAM Camp for a trading post run by 6-16 year olds.
Dinner and Presentation, 7pm @ Mildred’s Lane
http://www.mildredslane.com/projects/2010_retail21c/index.php
I’m presenting my work for the Retail 21st Century think tank.
What do I do?
I am a co-organizer of a barter network for artists, designers, and craftspeople in NYC and beyond (http://ourgoods.org/). Bartering skills, spaces, and objects based on mutual agreement rather than market value allows social, environmental, and ethical rationales to drive exchange behavior. The other co-founders of OurGoods are: Carl Tashian, the senior site engineer from Zip Car, Rich Watts and Louise Ma, two of the best designers in NYC, and Jen Abrams, a self production expert. After a year and a half of research and development, we are in the alpha stage and a plan to launch to the public with OurGoods beta this fall!
To get the word out about barter, Rich, Louise, Saul Melman and myself run an alternative learning environment called Trade School, where students barter for instruction. We introduce the idea of alternative value systems by asking students to agree to “pay” the teacher with barter items that the teacher requests. All students can become teachers, as everyone is invited to teach a class on a technique, tradition, or tactic. We had 76 classes in a month on everything from grassroots organizing to making butter, and will open again soon! http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/
P2P Fashion @ Nightwood, 7-9pm
http://www.nightwoodny.com/html_pages/news.html
Pascale Gatzen invited me to participate in this celebration of small scale fashion production. I’m working with Adriana Young, Huong Ngo, and Andrea Loest.
Collaborative Consumption Panel 7pm @ The Parsons School of Design, Kellen Auditorium
http://parsonsriseofcollaborativeconsumption.eventbrite.com/
I’ll be speaking on this panel. It’s focused on “a new realm of consumerism, one marked by trust between strangers, shared access instead of ownership, and the primacy of experience over “more stuff”. It will be highly interactive with the audience driving the Q&A session, moderated by Bruce Nussbaum.
TradeUP 4pm @ LittleField (622 Degraw, Brooklyn)
I donated a WorkDress to this swap-meet for foodies.
http://tradeup.bigcartel.com/
ERPA Book Launch 7pm @ OpenPlans Penthouse
https://www.thefield.org/t-erpa.aspx
A Celebration of Cultural Entrepreneurship
I wrote a chapter of this book!
Live Barter Network @ PRELUDE from 5-8pm (3-5 = Action Tank)
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Mestc/events/f10/prelude/program.html#thursday
Who has what you want? Who wants what you have? Visit our live barter network to trade skills, spaces, and objects with other creative people. Co-founders of OurGoods.org will map your skills and needs to connect you to your barter matches in real time. Exchange with others and visualize the diversity of goods and services available in the community right now.
Aesthletics Workshop from 1-2:30pm @ Conflux
Make uniforms with Tom Russotti, a BIG bodybuilder, and me!
http://confluxfestival.org/
The table Rich and I made was selected for The International Symposium on Food Experience Design in London. It’s November 9-28 http://ifooddesign.org/events/symposium2010.php#welcome
and also at Salone del Gusto in Turin from October 18-28 http://www.salonedelgusto.it/
10-5 @ Sponge
I am an expert at Hope Ginsburg’s Sponge at Curiouser (hosted by VCU)
http://www.curiouser.vcu.edu/schedule.shtml
‘The Currency Makers’ 6:30-8 @ DotDotDot
Louise and I will present Trade School at DotDotDot, SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design Lecture Series, at SVA.
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events/entry/dot_dot_dot_lecture_the_currency_makers/
Barter Workshop from 3-6pm @ DTW
rsvp http://www.thefield.org/p-709-barter-a-budget-supplement.aspx
Dance Theater Workshop is at http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/
Barter Workshop from 12-2:30pm @ WOW
12:00-1:00 Self Production 101 (led by Jen Abrams)
1:00-2:30 Live Barter Network
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WOW is at http://www.wowcafe.org/
Idea Party and Barter Workshop from 3-6pm @ EFA
3:00-4:30 Idea Party (led by Erin Marie Sickler)
4:30-6:00 Live Barter Network
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EFA is at http://efa1.org/gallery
Barter Workshop from 12-2:30pm @ BAX
12:00-1:00 Self Production 101 (led by Jen Abrams)
1:00-2:30 Live Barter Network
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BAX is http://bax.org/
Jen and I will present OurGoods @ Parsons from 3-6pm
Pascale Gatzen asked us to share barter ideas with her students.
http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/profiles_program.aspx?id=42775
Two groups are studying OurGoods.org for Cameron Tonkinwise sharing class @ New School.
http://www.newschool.edu/facultyexperts/faculty.aspx?id=23672
NYU Psychology Students studied OurGoods.org for their Group Dynamics MA class. Helene, Yi, Gaelle, and Zanna made a research packet for us. Thank you!
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/courses/graduatecatalog.html
Meeting with organizers of the Solidarity NYC Project.
http://www.geo.coop/
Idea Party and Barter Workshop from 3-6pm @ Eyebeam
3:00-4:30 Idea Party (led by Erin Marie Sickler)
4:30-6:00 Live Barter Network
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http://eyebeam.org/events/ourgoodsorg-idea-party-and-live-barter
Accounting in a Solidarity Economy @ Hunter College Gallery (450 West 41st Street) From 2-4pm, drop in for a 15-30 minute introduction to accounting where people matter more than profits. Working with Michael Johnson, a representative from Solidarity NYC, you and others will identify economic activities outside of regular paid work, articulating diverse economies by sharing stories and mapping paid/unpaid labor, market/non-market transactions, private/common property, and private/state infrastructure. This is an exercise in consciousness raising around work and consumption.
Chazan Gallery Show, March 17-April 9
with Mary Paula Hunter/JUMP!
“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”
-Jean Cocteau
http://www.paulahunterperformances.com/kids.html
Pace University @ 10am 1 Pace Plaza, Room E328
I’m representing Trade School in a panel about the critical tensions between volunteer collectives and paid staff, what it means to build collective infrastructure, and how to pay the bills. Also on the panel: Kazembe Balagun (Brecht Forum), Jessica Green & Philip Maysles (Maysles Cinema), Quinn Hechtkopf (Surreal Estate), and more.
Trade School will hold 16 classes inside the Whitney Museum. As payment for the class, students bring objects they’ve made, to be prominently displayed. Sign up for a class by agreeing to bring an object of your own creation at http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/whitney
Presenting OurGoods for Alternative Economies @ 1mile2
http://www.musagetes.ca/news_data.php?idArticle_=797
Ontario, CA
Trade School presents @ The Smithsonian
http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Ignite+Smithsonian
Trade School is open from February 2nd until April 17th at 32 Prince Street. Sign up by bringing a good/service that your teacher requests.
http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/
What is our work worth to each other? Join me from 1-3pm @ Momenta Art http://theiwt.com/hometab-exhibition/modeling-alternatives-april-22nd-may-8th/
I’m presenting @ Design for Social Change (a research group at Eyebeam) http://www.eyebeam.org/research/open-culture
Trade School opens in Milan!
I’ve been advising this group:
http://milano.tradeschool.it/
OurGoods is at the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas
http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/program#event-1244
Real Community Engagement @ Creative Time
I’m representing OurGoods at this social practice workshop.
I’m presenting @ Mildred’s Lane
http://www.mildredslane.com/projects/2011_retail21c/index.php
I’m presenting @ Fieldwork
http://www.thefield.org/t-Workshops_Fieldwork.aspx
LMCC & Creative Capital @ Governor’s Island
For The Artists Summer Institute, I’ll use my life as a case study for the artist as entrepreneur.
http://www.lmcc.net/arts_services/summer_institute
I’m speaking @ CCA
Amy Whitaker invited me to speak at her Creative Economics class
http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/awhitaker
I’m in a show with Amy Whitaker: the DMBA Faculty Art Exhibition at CCA August 16-August 30, 2011 Opening Saturday August 20 6-8pm
This Fall, I’m teaching a class called BARTER: The Social Practice of Non-Monetary Exchange. This is a course about cooperative and ethical exchange. Working in teams, students will research existing models for barter and worker-cooperatives in NYC, experiment with these models at Parsons, and then implement barter or cooperative exchange experiments with a wider public. https://alvin.newschool.edu/prbn/bwckschd.p_disp_detail_sched?term_in=201110&crn_in=7382
OurGoods + The Greenhorns: a celebration of food and resource sharing! Come to the northern pavilion in Union Square to cook, eat, and connect with artists and farmers. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160580554019390
I’m presenting Trade School @ 3pm at Maker Faire, with Anya Kamenetz of DIYU and Generation Debt
http://fora.tv/2011/09/18/DIY_U_Designing_Self_Organized_Education
I’m organizing a project room for OurGoods @ “Living As Form”
a show curated by Nato Thompson @ Essex Market
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/
OurGoods @ Exit Art
We’re in a group show about alternative economies.
http://www.exitart.org/exhibition_programs/upcoming_programs/new_money.html
Every weekend until October 16th, OurGoods is at 80 Essex Street for Living as Form
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/
Featured Participant @ Contact
(Douglas Rushkoff is organizing it)
http://contactcon.com/
I’m speaking on LMCC’s artists and entrepreneurship panel with Stephanie Diamond, Amy Whitaker, and Matthew Deleget.
6:30-8:30pm RSVP http://www.tfaforms.com/217695
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
125 Maiden Lane, 2nd Floor, Between Pearl and Water Streets