May 01, 2009
Latest News & Events Migrates to Our Blog
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Contributors include Joshua Berger, Thomas Bradley, Tiffany Lee Brown,
Sarah Gottesdiener, Ian Lynam, and Jon Raymond.
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April 24, 2009
Plazm Thread launches with Art Chantry's alien abduction theme
Join plazm thread, our new t-shirt of the month club with BuyOlympia. Six incredible original designs delivered to your door, once a month, for just $99. Whenever a month passes? That shirt goes out of print, period. It's gone. So get 'em while they're fresh: truly limited edition Plazm Thread t-shirts. We're kicking off with a special alien abduction theme, designed by Art Chantry.
Future shirts include Kate Moross, Ed Fella, Hannah Stouffer and many more
to be announced.
See
www.plazmthread.com for
details.
March 23, 2009
Joshua Berger to Speak In New York
Plazm Principal and Creative Director Joshua Berger to speak at Pratt Institute, this Thursday, March 26th. The talk is free and open to the public, and is part of Niko Courtelis' advertising and design class.
Thursday, March 26th, 12:30
Pratt Institute Room 401
200
Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY
November 19, 2008
Livability ~ New collection of short stories by Jon Raymond ~ out 12/23/08 ~ Reading schedule announced
A grieving man embarks on a long-imagined affair in the months following his wife’s unexpected death. Two old friends attempt to rediscover their lost bond on a trip to remote mountain hot springs. Two teenagers, trapped in a mall after hours, push each other to new levels of honesty and sexual misconduct.
Livability A new collection of stories by Jon
Raymond
Ships 01/04/09.
Order signed first edition
copies.
In Jon Raymond’s deft, nuanced
stories, these and other characters experience the deep longings and
sudden insights of life in a modern, middle-sized city—a world of
rapidly changing neighborhoods, rising financial pressures, and chance
encounters shaped by far-distant forces. Whether kids or carpenters,
artists or drifters, all have arrived at a crossroads, seeking what they
need to survive and finding what, if necessary, they are willing to live
without. With poetic detail and a humane spirit, Livability draws a
somber, wryly observed portrait of America now.
Published to
coincide with the national release of Wendy and Lucy (directed by Kelly
Reichardt and starring Michelle Williams), these refined, elegiac stories
are the work of a writer with a long and promising career ahead of him.
** Jon will be reading from Livability at the following
fine bookstores **
1/8 PORTLAND,
OR
Powell's (Burnside) / reading / 7:30 p.m.
1/15 SEATTLE, WA
University Book Store (U
District) / reading / 7 p.m.
1/16 OLYMPIA,
WA
Orca Books / reading / 7 p.m.
1/21
NEW YORK, NY
Barnes & Noble (Greenwich Village) / reading / 7:30
p.m.
2/27 EUGENE, OR
Barnes &
Noble / reading / 7 p.m.
All events are free.
October 29, 2008
In Other's Words - Joshua Berger to exhibit work at UMASS
Joshua Berger's Collateral Damage project will be included in this exhibition about the power and reinvention of language. The exhibition runs November 17 - December 05 2008 at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
From the curator's statement: "Language means: a pattern used by a
particular group within a community (usually occupational) or a
special pattern created for communication. ‘A body of words and the
systems for their common use’. Is there truly a common language?
What happens when you take one language and ask it to describe, unite,
react or interact with another? Do they support, contradict, embrace,
confuse, or clarify one another? What new communication does this
relationship build?"
More about
"Collateral Damage," Joshua Berger's ongoing project
commemoratof the lives of civilians killed in the war in Iraq, can be
found here.
October 26, 2008
David Reed - The Lives of Paintings
Public artist talk: October 29, 7:00 p.m., Vollum Lecture Hall, Reed College campus, FREE -
Followed by a public reception at the Cooley Gallery
Show runs October 29–December 9, 2008
at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College
Exhibition curatrd by Stephanie Snyder
Renowned New York abstract painter and Reed College alumnus David Reed returns to the college for a one-person exhibition of paintings created over the last three decades, from 1965 to the immediate present.
Entitled Lives of Paintings, this diachronic installation brings together
interrelated bodies of David Reed’s work: early gestural landscapes,
time-based performative paintings from the 1970s, and large-scale,
intensely optical paintings from the last twenty years. Each body of work
illuminates the strategies and nuances of the others, exploring the
“lives” of the paintings within the intimate conversational
space of the Cooley. To investigate the lives of the paintings as social
objects, the Cooley Gallery is publishing an experimental monograph that
includes a collection of individual, large-format reproductions of each
painting in the exhibition; and the translocational “life
story” of each painting is explored through essays and photographs.
Designed by Joshua Berger of PLAZM in collaboration with the artist, the
monograph includes essays by Jeffrey Kipnis, Lisa Ann Favero, and Reed
College Professor Emeritus Charles Rhyne; a conversation with exhibition
curator Stephanie Snyder; and a preface by Reed College Professor of Art
Michael Knutson.
September 15, 2008
Girls Rock! Limited edition Plazm t-shirts; soundtrack release; DVD upcoming
Girls Rock!, a documentary about Portland’s own Rock and Roll Camp for Girls, will soon be released on DVD. The soundtrack is out, featuring Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Low, and other influential bands alongside the girls’ own bands. Plazm's Sarah Gottesdiener illustrated the Plazm-designed package. Plazm also created a series of t-shirts and hoodies with all sales benefiting the rock camp.
September 03, 2008
Storm Tharp at Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
A Plazm web exclusive, in honor of Storm Tharp's exhibit September 2008 at Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland. Storm’s work was featured in Plazm’s print magazine, Issue No. 29.
Stephanie Snyder, director of the Cooley gallery authors the descriptions.
Opening September 4, 2008
The article and images can be found
at
Plazm
magazine online.
Click here for more information on
ordering
Plazm #29, which featured 10 pages of Storm's work.
August 06, 2008
Wendy and Lucy Signed with Oscilloscope Pictures
Fresh off its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, Wendy and Lucy has officially signed with Oscilloscope Pictures as its North American distributor. The film is directed by Kelly Reichardt, stars Michelle Williams and was co-written by Plazm editor Jon Raymond. Plazm designed the main titling sequence for the film.
The film will be released at the Film Forum in New York City on December
10th and will open in cities nationwide in early 2009. Between now and
then it will also screen at many festivals around the world, and in North
America, including the Toronto International Film Festival and New York
Film Festival.
View full national release schedule here:
http://www.wendyandlucy.com/n_theaters.html
July 15, 2008
Flash Choir to Perform New Choral Piece by Sarah Dougher
Flash Choir Performs New Choral Work
by Portland Musician and Composer Sarah Dougher
July 19, 2008
Reed College Chapel
7pm
Free
"Caesar's Gate" is a choral piece by musician/composer Sarah
Dougher,
commissioned by the The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art
Gallery at Reed
College to celebrate the exhibit, Jess: To and From
the Printed Page,
an immersive exhibition including painting,
sculpture, collage, book
arts and ephemera by the seminal Beat
Generation artist Jess Collins,
known as "Jess"
(1923-2004).
The piece will be debuted by the Flash Choir on
July 19th, 2008, at
7pm at the Reed College Chapel. The event is free
and open to the
public. The performance will be followed by a talk by
poetry scholar
Steve Dickison, and a reception in the Cooley Gallery,
featuring the
music of Tim DuRoche.
About the piece:
"Caesar's Gate" was the first collaboration between long-time
partners
Jess and the poet Robert Duncan. A small volume of poetry
and collage,
it was first published in 1955, and explores identity
formation,
passages, gay sexuality, and shifting perspectives.
Subsequently
published in 1972 with extensive new prologue and
epilogue, the volume
took on a self-reflective quality in which
Duncan addresses the
problem of the early work (and the early self)
in the view of the
mature poet. The libretto, excerpted by Sarah
Dougher, includes both
passages from these later additions, as well
as poems from the
original volume. The piece will be accompanied by
Marisa Anderson on
electric guitar.
July 15, 2008
Tiffany Lee Brown at Just Add Water Fest
Co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown will be performing at the Just Add Water Festival, to take place this Saturday, July 19th, at PCS.
"Play Me," a performance-installation by Tiffany Lee Brown and
2GQ, explores intimacy and communication through sound, words, voice, and
technological mediation. And Tarot cards, too. Collaborators include Jen
Folker, Eric Hausmann, Richard Kadrey, Barb Klansnic, Pecos B., Nora
Robertson, and Stephanie Snyder.
"Play Me" is part of
the You Are Here series at the JAW Festival.
You Are Here:
Saturday, July 19
11:30am-2:30pm
Free; sign up at Portland
Center Stage or at the Theatre Fair on NW Davis Street
Part of the
JAW Festival
"You Are Here" features site-specific
performances, music, and other fun stuff by 2GQ, Sarah Dougher's Flash
Choir, and Lane Hunter Dance Company.
2GQ:
http://www.2GQ.orgPortland Center
Stage:
http://www.pcs.orgMiss Tif:
http://www.magdalen.com
July 01, 2008
Comprehensive Plazm Collection Acquired by the Denver Art Museum
Plazm is proud to announce the acquisition of the complete catalog of Plazm magazine into the permanent collection of the Denver Art Museum.
In addition to copies of Plazm magazine issues 1–29, the museum has
acquired over 40 assorted handbills, limited edition posters, books, and
other printed ephemera created by Plazm from 1991–2008.
April 05, 2008
Joshua Berger Receives Honorary Exhibit at ZGRAF in Croatia
ZGRAF is an international triennial exhibition of graphic design and visual communications held in Zagreb, Croatia since 1975. Plazm's Joshua Berger was invited to exhibit recent work as part of an honorary exhibition.
Exhibition details:
Opening:
May 6, 2008
Duration:
7 May – 25,
2008
venue
HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual Artists)
House of Croatian Artists, Trg žrtava fašizma bb, Zagreb
For more information:
www.zgraf.hr
February 18, 2008
House Bound: a Kinesthetic Salon
Advance reservations required - now available
Installation, food, and performance by the artists of Works Corps
including Plazm co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown
At Performance Works NW, Portland, Oregon
Co-presented by 2GQ and PWNW's Alembic Series
Details below or at
http://www.2GQ.orgThe artists of Work
Corps present "House Bound," an intimate kinesthetic salon of
installation and performance with roving audience participation.
Co-presented by 2GQ, "House Bound" investigates the tension
between solo and connectivity, individual and relationship, freedom and
claustrophobia.
Work Corps artists are Clare Carpenter, Emily
Stone, Lilian Gael, Nora Robertson and Tiffany Lee Brown. The group first
came together to perform in 2GQ's works-in-progress series, Public Works,
at the Someday Lounge.
Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres,
chocolates, tea, and wine; $15 advance, $20 at the door. Volunteer
opportunities available. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
"House
Bound" by the artists of Works Corps
April 13, 2008
Various
showtimes - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
at Performance Works NW
4625 SE
67th Avenue, Portland, 97206
RESERVATIONS & INFORMATION
+1 503 475 2306
housebound@2GQ.org
February 10, 2008
WNTR WRKS: Music & Video Event
WNTR WRKS: music & video event
e*rock (Plazm 28 contributor)
Hooliganship (Plazm 29 release party performers)
Gay Deceivers (Plazm superstar Sarah Gottensdiener's band)
At Holocene, Portland, Oregon
Presented by PICA, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Details below or at
http://www.pica.org or
http://www.holocene.orgCARTUNE XPREZ and
PICA present...
WNTR WRKS
E*Rock
Hooliganship
Gay Deceivers
Nollifur
DJ Beyonda
With a special presentation of short films by:
Takeshi Murata
Bruce Bickford
Amy Lockhart
Barry Doupe
Lief Hall
Peter Burr
Josh Mannis
Adrian Freeman
Sunday
February 24
9 PM
Holocene
$6 Cover
February 01, 2008
Girls Rock! The Movie: National Release
Plazm designed a logo, limited edition poster, and other pieces for this documentary film about the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls.
Opens March 7 at select theaters.
After touring the festival circuit for the past year to rave reviews, Girls
Rock is getting a full national release. The documentary film by Arne
Johnson and Shane King follows the stories of kids age 7–17
attending the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Oregon. Plazm
designed a logo, a limited edition silkscreen poster and a number of other
pieces for the film. You can see those
designs here.
Opening weekend theaters -
March 7th
New York: Angelika Film Center
San Francisco:
Embarcadero Center Cinemas
Los Angeles: NuArt Cinema
Chicago:
Music Box Theater
Berkeley: Shattuck Cinemas
Portland: Cinema
21
Seattle: SIFF Cinema
For more information and to get
involved:
http://www.girlsrockmovie.com **
Also, stay tuned for Girls Rock! The Soundtrack on
Cherchez la
Femme Records due out in June. Designed by Plazm featuring
illustrations by Plazm's Sarah Gottesdiener. Contains music from camper
bands as well as heavy hitters such as Sonic Youth, The Gossip, Low, and
many more.
January 15, 2008
Stimulating Sales: Sex and Design
Now open at the Museum of Sex, New York City
Curated by Plazm's Joshua Berger and Sarah Dougher
Introduction by Steven Heller
Open now at the Museum of Sex as part of the Spotlight on the Permanent
Collection.
In concert with the Pentagram-designed exhibition space.
233 Fifth Avenue, New York
Hours: Sun-Fri 11am-6:30pm / Sat
11am-8pm
http://mos.dreamhosters.com/exhibit/spotlight
November 05, 2007
Plazm at the Backroom January 11, 2008
THE WIFE, THE MISTRESS, AND THE PROSTITUTE:
PLAZM AT THE BACKROOM
Curator Stephanie Snyder in conversation with Plazm editors Joshua
Berger, Jonathan Raymond, and Tiffany Lee Brown.
Musical guest Tara Jane O'Neil.
Dinner planned and prepared by Tastebud Farm.
The back room is an occasional series of presentations/symposia/
bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and
general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright
intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in
conversation,
and screening or presenting various textual and
visual delights.
For more details, check
www.thebackroompdx.com in the coming weeks.
January 11, 2008. Save the date.
Podkrepa Hall, 2116 North
Killingsworth Street, Portland
October 10, 2007
Plazm at Wordstock November 11th
PLAZM magazine has brought words to the page with a unique vision since 1991. From artist/writer collaborations to experiments in typography and design, PLAZM provides a platform for local and international art, design, and culture, along with nonfiction, creative, and critical writing.
Longtime Plazm editor Jonathan Raymond, author of
The Half Life,
and co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown, author of
A Compendium of
Miniatures, lead a one-hour talk and reading of works from Plazm.
Contributing writers will be on-hand to read as well; drop by the PLAZM
booth for details.
Wordstock runs November 9-11
The
Plazm event is at 5pm on November 11th.
The event takes place
at the Oregon Convention Center
777 NE MLK, Jr. Blvd.,
Portland, OR 97232
For complete schedule:
wordstockfestival.com
September 28, 2007
Plazm + PNCA present an evening with Art Chantry
Mr. Chantry is one of the most gifted designers in America. His posters are in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among others. He will visit Portland for a free lecture October 18.
Art will spend three days in Portland working with MFA and BFA students at
PNCA. In addition he will be giving a free lecture open to the public on
October 18.
Art Chantry
Free lecture
October
18
6:30 pm
Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW
Johnson
Check out Art's web site:
www.artchantry.comOr PNCA for more details:
www.pnca.edu
September 14, 2007
Plazm 29 Release Party
People in the Portland area can get the first chance to pick up a copy at our September 26th release party at the Ace Hotel. It is going to be a blast, with performances from Evolutionary Jass Band, Hooliganship, Glass Candy, a Vanessa Renwick screening +
The End of War Art exhibit & sale with contributions from David Eckard,
Art Chantry, Storm Tharp, Kristan Kennedy, Philip Iosca, Horatio Law, Sam
Gould, and more, to benefit Veterans for Peace, and DJ BJ, DJ Linoleum,
and DJ Girlfriends, Cupcakes courtesy of
Saint
Cupcake.
Doors: 8 pm
$3 cover
ALL AGES
Ace
Hotel (1022 SW Stark St., Portland)
Sponsored by
New
Deal Vodka,
New
Belgium Brewing,
Guayaki
Yerba Mate, and
Phoenix
Media. Doors at 8pm, bands at 9pm. Hope to see you there!
**
If you are out of town or can't make it to the party, you can
preorder
Plazm #29 today and have it delivered to your doorstep.
**
post-facto: here's a nice image from
the night of the event, courtesy of Jeremy Pelley.
August 01, 2007
This is Your Brain on Theater
Portland's premier theater company kicks off their second season in the renovated Armory Building. The space is beautiful and the season looks to be fantastic. First up: Cabaret.
This year Plazm teamed up with Studio J to create all
nine of the season's posters. We got a chance to work with a number of
great illustrators including Winston Smith, Edwin Fotheringham, Cho-Chan,
Michael Brophy, and more. View posters.
Make ticket reservations: Portland Center Stage
July 30, 2007
Funbook #2 Release Party + Darfur Benefit
Funbook #2 Release Party + Darfur Benefit
Friends of Plazm, Psilo Design have put together a second Funbook to raise
money and awareness about the genocide that is going on in Darfur. The
release party will be the 8th of August at Holocene. Show Me the Pink is
headlining (their last show ever!). Old Growth, Here Comes a Big Black
Cloud, and Mustaphamond will also be playing. There will be giant posters
to color with crayons galore. An $8 admission will include a copy of the
book.
August 8, 2007
Holocene
Portland, Oregon
July 17, 2007
Book Release: Compendium of Miniatures
Tiffany Lee Brown, editor of Plazm and 2Grylz Quarterly, is coming out with a new limited edition book this fall.
A Compendium of Miniatures
by Tiffany Lee Brown
(Portland:
2GQ/Tiger Food Press, 2007)
Miniature narratives and rhythmic
metaphors redefine the words that tell life's big stories. Limited edition
of 50 signed, numbered books hand-bound in silk. Hand-set in Deepdene and
letterpress printed in two colors on recyled paper using soy-based inks by
Clare Carpenter of Tiger Food Press. Case-bound, 48 pages, approximately
4" x 6".
Email the authors at
2007@2GQ.org
with inquiries or to be notified about our September installation and
performance at Cathedral Park Place in Portland.
Pre-orders
accepted - Shipping September 2007.
55.00 -
Add to cart**
Construct/Re-Construct
Exhibit Featuring A Compendium of MiniaturesPlazm
co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown and book artist Clare Carpenter present an
installation documenting the collaborative process behind their new
project, A Compendium of Miniatures. This group show about artistic
process is curated by Rhoda London. The book itself appears in a limited
edition of 50 and is available through the Plazm website.
September 29-October 27, 2007
Cathedral Park Place
6635 N.
Baltimore Ave, Portland, OR
(the former Columbia Sportswear/Modern
Zoo building)
Opening Reception Saturday, September 29, 5-8
PM
Gallery hours Friday and Saturday only 12-5 PM
Artists:
Josh Arseneau, Francesca Berrini, John Brodie, Tiffany Lee Brown, Clare
Carpenter, Cathy Cleaver, Nancy Cushwa, Kristina DiTullo, Tore Djupedal,
David Hacker, Helen Heibert, Harrison Higgs, Scott Wayne Indiana,James
Jack, Horatio Law, Todd Leninger, Seth Nehil,Liz Obert, Kelly Rauer, Anya
Shapiro, Benjamin Stagl, Andy Stout, Robert Wilhelm, Karen Willey, Linda
Wysong.
July 16, 2007
Save the Date:Art Chantry
Mr. Chantry is one of the most gifted graphic designers in America.
He is coming to Portland in the fall for a free lecture.
PLAZM + PNCA PRESENT ART CHANTRY
Mr. Chantry is one of the most
gifted graphic designers in America. His posters are in the collections
of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among others. He will visit Portland for
a free lecture October 18. Save the date!
Art Chantry
Free lecture
October 18
Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson
Additional details to follow.
In the
meantime, check out Art's web site:
www.artchantry.com
July 13, 2007
Cut and Paste
If you don't know about Cut&Paste, check it out. It's the "Iron Chef" of the design world. You can enter to compete now for a slot in the tournament. The deadline is July 17th. Plazm's Joshua Berger will be one of the Portland judges.
Cut&Paste is back this Fall 2007 in eleven cities worldwide.
Cut&Paste partnered with Adobe to bring their digital design
tournament series to six cities in the US (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles,
New York City, Portland, San Francisco) and five cities across Europe and
Asia (Berlin, Hong Kong, London, Sydney, Tokyo). Resulting works will be
compiled into a book/dvd set produced by iDN.
The Portland
tournament will be held on September 21st.
Eight designers will
have the opportunity to showcase their talent and compete in three,
single-elimination rounds. Their work will be webcast globally and
projected in real-time for the live, Cut&Paste audience. Onsite and
offsite viewers may vote online or by SMS to award an Adobe® Creative
Suite 3 Master Collection Suite to the winner of our Audience Prize. An
all-star judging panel will decide our C&P Champion, who will receive
our Jury Prize, a newly released Wacom Cintiq® interactive display.
Judges this year include:
Kristan Kennedy, Portland Institute
for Contemporary Art
Joshua Berger, PLAZM
Jose Cabaco, Wieden +
Kennedy
Jason Bacon, UNKL/
Eric Lawrence, Ziba Design
Call for entry deadline is July 17th, 2007.
We'd like to
invite you to enter to compete online at
www.cutandpaste.com.
For
more information check out this short clip produced by
Cool
Hunting
June 18, 2007
Redesigned Rock Camp Website
Designed by Plazm and built by Concrete. The R+R Camp for Girls is an fantastic organization that helps build self esteem in girls through music and performance. .
Design-wise, we wanted to make the site
well-organized but fun for both kids and adults and super-flexible for the
camp to update. Concrete used their CMS (content management system) to
make the site easy to edit.
The camp has some great programming
coming up - three sessions of summer camp this year, the most ever - all
sold out - but you can attend the showcases and offer your own support
through tax deductible donations—there's a list of needed items
besides cash there too. Check it out here: http://www.girlsrockcamp.org/
May 25, 2007
Girls Rock! Movie Premier
Girls Rock! the movie premiers in the US at the Seattle Film Festival the weekend of May 25th.
Girls Rock! is an excellent documentary about the Rock 'n' Roll Camp
for Girls. Plazm designed the poster and assorted promotional materials.
Check
out more info here and learn how to bring this movie to your
town.
http://www.girlsrockmovie.com/http://
www.seattlefilm.org/On May 26th there will be a
live show featuring some of the girls
from the movie:
From Girls Rock!
"Girls Rock Fest will feature girls from the
movie rocking it live,
and other bands with women. See the
10-year-old Amelia's band King
belt out their anthem "We Will
Destroy our Destination" and Blubird
(12-year-old duo) sing
the ineffable line "Bush is such an idiot, why
won't he sign
the Kyoto Treaty!" alongside upcoming bands like
Raining Jane.
Most importantly, the all-ages show will also feature a
music
experimentation area run by the camp, where girls will be
encouraged to try out guitars, effect pedals and other fun noise.
It'll be like a mini-rock camp! They will also be encouraged to come
on stage and try out the drums between bands. There will be special
surprise appearances we're not ready to announce yet."
Featuring:
Rock Camp House Band (including 8-year-old Palace's
scathing "San
Francisco Sucks Sometimes" and other
treats)
King
Blubird (
www.blubirdtheband.com )
Raining Jane (www.rainingjane.com
)
May 26 @ Chop Suey
1325 E.
Madison
http://www.chopsuey.com
Admission: $10 (or more, it's a
benefit!)
Doors 1:30 pm
Show 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Tix
will be available soon on www.ticketweb.com
May 18, 2007
Free Internet Wireless or Corporate Control?
Once again large telecommunication corporations like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are attempting to control the public media space—and it appears the US federal government is ready to hand it over to them. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is accepting comments for the next couple of days. Now is the time to act. Moveon.org has a petition that they are planning to submit.
Please take a moment to sign the petition, call or
write the FCC, and most importantly, pass on this information to your
friends and family.
—Plazm
From
www.moveon.org:
"These newly
available airwaves are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revolutionize
Internet access—beaming high-speed Internet signals to every park
bench, coffee shop, workplace, and home in America at more affordable
prices than current Internet service. Phone and cable companies don't
want this competition to their Internet service—they'd rather
purchase the airwaves at auction and sit on them.
In June, the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will make a major decision: Use
the public airwaves for the public good, or turn them over to big
companies who will stifle competition, innovation, and the wireless
Internet revolution.
To sign the petition + learn more click here
There are many innovative
companies jumping at the opportunity to forge ahead with the wireless
Internet revolution—bringing us high-speed wireless networks from
coast to coast and all sorts of innovative wireless devices. But the old
phone and cable companies are aggressively trying to block this progress.
They've spent billions laying wires, and they enjoy having their customers
locked in with few alternatives.
Without access to the public
airwaves, wireless innovators can't enter the marketplace. So the
strategy of companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast is to buy the
administrative rights of our airwaves at auction—and then use those
rights to block competition. They also stifle the development of new
wireless devices by only letting their own endorsed products work on
their networks.
We're urging the FCC to protect the public good
by setting auction rules that prohibit this anti-competitive behavior. If
the government auctioned off the right to maintain a public highway to
Ford, we would certainly not let Ford block Toyotas from the roads.
Likewise, big phone and cable should not be able to keep innovative
companies off our airwaves.
They also shouldn't be able to
tell their wireless Internet customers which websites they can
access—as they do now. And just as phone companies can't tell
customers what phones can be plugged into a wall jack, cell and wireless
companies should not be able to dictate which
phones or wireless
devices people use on their networks.
The opportunity to
revolutionize the Internet and wireless world is at our fingertips. The
only question is whether our government will embrace it, and whether
regular people will fight for it."
April 27, 2007
Unprecedented Postal Hike
The Postal Board of Governors recent decision to support an unfair increase in periodical rates will have grave consequences for the free speech that our Founding Fathers struggled to foster when they established the U.S. mail system.
The rate increase was devised by Time Warner -- the largest publisher in
the industry. If implemented, it will have an adverse effect on smaller
periodicals, while easing the postal burden on the largest magazines.
This goes against more than 200 years of postal policy, which has
promoted the spread of diverse periodicals in competitive markets as a
means to foster a free press and inform and engage citizens.
Congress must step in to protect smaller media from new regulations that
would undo this history.
Please join the call for public
hearings to determine how this case was decided in such an unusual and
unorthodox fashion. Before any increases occur, we must ensure they don't
imperil small and independent publications and stifle public discourse in
America.
For more information:
http://action.freepress.net//campaign/postal
April 17, 2007
2GQ Public Works
Plazm co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown and her cohorts at 2GQ are
presenting six weeks of works in progress: readings, performances,
art, music, and video during Happy Hour at Someday Lounge.
Plazm book author Sarah Dougher and art director Joshua Berger will
appear on May 9.
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2GQ presents
PUBLIC WORKS
Six weeks of live, raw works-in-progress, rough cuts,
& experiments
being of a literary, performative, musical, &
artistic nature
Wednesdays, April 4 through May 9
5:30-7:00 pm
Free, at Someday Lounge
Works Corps:
TIFFANY LEE BROWN (writing/interdisciplinary)
CLARE CARPENTER (book
arts)
LILY GAEL (performance/dance)
LEANNE GRABEL (poetry)
NORA ROBERTSON (writing/performance)
EMILY STONE
(interdisciplinary/choreography)
Guest Artists:
PECOS B.
(April 4) (poetry/hip hop)
GRACE CONSTANTINE (April 11) (belly
dance)
ERIC HAUSMANN (April 18) (guitar + video)
JEMIAH
JEFFERSON (April 25) (awesome vampire novels!)
JULIAN TULIP (May 2)
(new wave + noise + lyric)
SARAH DOUGHER (May 9) (music/voice)
JOSHUA BERGER (May 9) (visual art)
Location:
Someday
Lounge
125 NW 5th Avenue
in Portland's Old Town
phone 503
248 1030
www.somedaylounge.com
Details & other froth:
www.2GQ.org
Press & other inquiries: 2007@2GQ.org
March 15, 2007
Design Of Dissent exhibition at Moravian College
We are pleased to announce that the Design of Dissent exhibition,
originally held at School of Visual Arts in New York, has a new
venue: Payne Gallery of Moravian College, Pennsylvania, USA.
We are pleased to announce that the Design of Dissent exhibition,
originally held at School of Visual Arts in New York, has a new
venue: Payne Gallery of Moravian College, Pennsylvania, USA.
The exhibit dates are 15 March - 15 April 2007.
The Design of
Dissent examines graphic work that focuses on social
and political
concerns from around the globe. The exhibit and book
were curated
by Milton Glaser and Mirko Illíc, and feature a couple
of
Plazm projects along with many great contemporary works.
Gallery
locationFor more information contact David Leidich, Payne
Gallery:
dleidich@moravian.eduThe first edition hardcover book The Design of Dissent is available
for purchase on our web site. Price is now discounted 30% off
retail.
Order
here.
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Girls Rock! Soundtrack CD
Rock Camp for Girls - Tie & Pocket Protector T-shirt