JUSTSEEDS RADICAL ARTIST UPDATE 02.06

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(1) Call for Cut & Paint #2

Calling All Stencil Artists!

Cut&Paint: A Stencil Template Zine #2
Deadline: February 1st, 2006

We're almost sold out of the 400 copies we made of Cut&Paint #1 and we barely did any promotion, the zines sold themselves! We've decided this success demands a follow-up, so we're putting together another issue of Cut&Paint and we need your help. Once again, Josh MacPhee (Stencil Pirates book, www.justseeds.org), Nicolas Lampert (www.drawingresistance.org, www.machineanimalcollages.com) and Colin Matthes (Ideas in Pictures zine, www.ideasinpictures.org) are putting together a zine of stencil templates. This time around we plan on scaling back the size of the zine a little (legal size folded, so 7" x 8.5"), but to make up for the shrinking size we hope to include a set of die-cut stencil templates with the zine. That's right, pre-cut stencils ready to use!
Like issue #1, most of the zine will be filled with some of the best and most exciting stencil templates out there (black and white stencil images that can be cut out and used), so we're looking for your best stencil template ideas. This time around we're also open to multi-color pieces, so if you are interested send a clean black & white print of each layer, as well as a composite image.

***In addition, we would like to expand the rest of the zine, too. This means more in the how-to section, so send along any new tips you've got. We want photos of stencils from your area, we'd like to run a couple spreads of regional stencil action, particularly from places we usually don't hear from. We'll also be including some writing on stencils as well, so if you have any articles you've been working on that deal with stenciling, public space, politics, etc., feel free to submit them.

Here's what we are looking for:

*All designs should be 7x8 inches
*Templates should be clean sprays of stencils on clean white paper. Flat black paint is preferable. We’ll be photocopying these templates, so keep the lines and edges as crisp as possible. In order to get a really clean print, you can spray little bit of spray-tack (like light spraymount) on the back of the stencil so it lays flat on the paper.
*No racist, sexist, homophobic designs. Also, we’re really looking for smart and creative takes on what’s going on in the world, not copied portraits of movie stars or Japanese robots. Keep it original.
* Stencils don’t have to be hit-you-over-the-head political (i.e. Fuck Bush, although that’s fine too), but they should be interesting to more than just you and your friends! The goal is to have stencil templates that other people will want to use.
*Feel free to submit more than one template design
*Tell us if you want your template credited to a name, and if so, what name (and contact information if you want, i.e. website, email, address, etc.)
The best designs will be used for the die-cuts, so send in great stuff and we might make 1000 pre-cut copies of you're stencil!
We hope to keep the price at $5 or below, and distribute Cut&Paint #2 much further and wider than #1.

All templates that are chosen for the zine will become copyleft/copyriot (i.e. they can be freely copied and used by anyone, public domain). Everyone who has a stencil chosen for Cut&Paint #2 will get a free copy of the zine.

Send templates, photos, and writing to:
Josh MacPhee
53 Third St.
Troy, NY 12180

or email hi-res (preferably 600dpi greyscale or 1200dpi line art) templates, photos (300 dpi) or writing to: josh [at] justseeds. org

If you have any questions, drop an email to animaltrap [at[ yahoo. com or josh [at] justseeds. org

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(2) National Conference on Organized Resistance

My partner Dara Greenwald and I are doing a presentation on Creating Counter-Power Through Culture on Sunday February 5th.

You can read more about it here: www.organizedresistance.org/workshops.php#counterpower

And find more about NCOR in general here: www.organizedresistance.org/

Come on down!

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(3) NYC Grassroots Media Conference

I'm dong a workshop with Visual Resistance (www.visualresistance.org) on Political Street Art and DIY Stenciling at 11:45 am on Saturday February 11th.

You can check out the whole conference here: http://nycgrassrootsmedia.org/conference

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(4) DMZ: A Guide to Taking Your School Back from the Military

"DMZ" is a comprehensive counter recruitment organizing manual for youth
activists. The manual includes basic organizing skills, counter
recruitment 101 information, and resources for organizing. It will be
released in February 2006, and will be available for sale and to download
from the War Resisters League.

The War Resisters League is seeking Art, Photography, Illustrations for
this great project. We are sorely lacking images to go along with the text
and are unable to recompense artists, illustrators and photographers for
their time.

If you are interested in donating your work you will be fully credited and
receive a copy of the final book.

Topics include:
High School Students Rights
The non-combat enlistment lie, and other recruitment tricks.
Recruitment improprieties threats, coercion, false promises.
Myths About Military Job Training and Money for College
Getting Organized: Building a group, communicating your message and
setting up events.

Please contact Nicholas Coster for more information

Nicholas@modino.com
212.4314.4354 ext. 201

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(5) SUSTAINABLE EATING -- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Sustainable Eating: Building Community through Food is an online zine,
exploring the connections between the food we eat and our personal, community
and environmental health.

Currently, SE is seeking submissions for issue #3: The Planting/Harvesting Issue

Deadline for submissions is March 1st and the issue will be online
during the spring and summer of 2006.

In developing your stories, feel free to interpret this theme as you
see fit -- this
is an intentionally general and broad topic, and we hope it will
generate a wide range of responses. For feedback and input on your
ideas, feel free to contact us at
submissions@semagazine.com.

All kinds of submissions are welcome, including: personal essays; news articles;
feature stories; interviews; profiles of people, organizations and
projects; and fiction.

In addition, Sustainable Eating is always looking for:

*recipes featuring local, seasonal ingredients;
*food-related book, film and product reviews;
*information on upcoming events, actions and campaigns;
*news briefs on food-related current events; and
*artwork (all mediums welcome).

***Submissions for Issue #3 should be sent electronically to
submissions@semagazine.com no
later than March 1, 2006.***

For more information, please view the submission guidelines at
http://www.semagazine.com/submit.php or send your questions to
submissions@semagazine.com.

Thanks---
Susan Sarratt
Editor, Sustainable Eating

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(6) Perspectives on Anarchist Theory: Critical Cartography and Anarchist Geography

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is looking for submissions of maps,
cartograms, diagrams, and writing, for a special issue, guest edited by Lex
Bhagat and Lize Mogel, on Critical Cartography and Anarchist Geography.

The map is a device of power. What happens when this device is purposely
redirected, hacked mischievously or stolen outright?

This issue of Perspectives aims to carry forward the tremendous momentum
which links art, activism, geography and other practices into the expanded
"field" of radical geography and cartography. We are inspired by recent
mapping projects that redirect the culturally understood authority of maps.
Such projects have produced a new type of networked discourse, richly
communicating information through image/text. These maps picture
concentrations of power and global economic flows; reveal the hidden
workings of the prison-industrial complex; uncover contestations of public
space; overwrite political boundaries with local ecologies; generate walking
tours of feminist social history; direct action against military recruiters
or global financial institutions; and provide a funhouse mirror to the
absurdity of electoral politics. Etcetera.


CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

1) MAPS
We are looking for examples of geography in the service of autonomy,
cartography as activist strategy. Maps, cartograms, and diagrams will be
printed in black and white.

Please send:
- PDF or JPEG files no greater than 2 Mb (2 files max), or weblinks.
- A descriptive statement about the map (1 page max).
- Contact Information
Note: maps can be printed in any language, but should be accompanied by
English description.

2) ESSAYS
We also aim to theoretically illuminate radical cartography itself by
pairing map-makers with writers. We will commission short essays that will
contextualize or respond to each map. Map-makers may submit essays about
their own maps.

Please send:
- A one or two paragraph indication of your research interests.
- Writing sample (3 pages max) or references to past works (print or
online).
- Contact information.

3) BONUS
All map submissions will be considered for an exhibition of radical
cartography, concurrent to the issue¹s publication in September 2006.


SEND TO
lex@anarchist-studies.org AND lize@publicgreen.com

OR:
Institute for Anarchist Studies
P.O. Box 1664
Stuyvesant Station
New York, NY 10009
ATTN: Cartography

DEADLINES
March 15: Proposals, sample maps and statements of interest.
April: Notification
June 1: Final deadline for map/images.
August 1: Final deadline for writings.
Late September: Issue publication.


ABOUT THE EDITORS
Alexis Bhagat is a writer and a director of the IAS.
Lize Mogel is an artist and mapmaker.

ABOUT PERSPECTIVES/IAS
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is the biannual journal of the Institute
for Anarchist Studies (IAS), a nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to
support the development of anarchism. The IAS is primarily a grant-giving
organization for radical writers and has supported authors from countries
around the world, including Argentina, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Nigeria,
Germany, South Africa, the Czech Republic and the United States.

www.anarchist-studies.org

**please forward!**


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(7) QUANTUM LEAPS
An Evening of New Videos

-- Curated by : Astria Suparak
-- Videos by : Daniel Barrow, Philippe Blanchard, Dearraindrop, Emily Vey Duke
and Cooper Battersby, Jim Finn, Caroline Koebel, J. Macdonell, Marriage,
Jim Munroe, Liz Rosenfeld, Seth Price, Andy Puls.
-- Posters by : Celebrate People’s History
-- Running time : 70 minutes.
Quantum leap, a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift
advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an early 1990s
American television series featuring a time travelling, body-swapping, do-gooder scientist. In 2006
this inspirational screening of new video follows suit, cataloguing heroes, compressing history, and
hallucinating futures.
We are in a hyperdated time populated by minor celebrity comebacks and movie remakes,
soundtracked by mash-ups and remixes, and backdropped by vintage/old school/retro simulacra.
Artists now are as inspired by history they weren’t quite conscious for as by their lived experiences:
Victorian decorative flourishes overlay throbbing psychedelia, made-for-TV teen angst appends a
WWII soldier’s flamboyantly chiffoned trespasses, today’s genderqueer bodies substitute for ‘70s
lesbian lovemaking, and similarities are elucidated between the ancient Hindu art of spiritual
discipline and the modern arts of online gaming and virtual murder.
Here it is possible to amalgamate eras, to break out of social and gender constraints, and to cobble
together a fantasy lineage. Many of the artists bypass ineffectual adoration for social edification, by
documenting communities, reincarnating overlooked experimental films, sharing Communist
souvenir collections, assembling biographies of personal heroes, and dispatching personal visions of
history through the storytelling tradition. Hippy ambivalence is explored: some reject the aesthetics
and embrace counterculture politics, for others it’s the reverse.
Why wear your heart on your sleeve when you can implant aspirations into flesh, grow
philosophies on your face, and graft identity onto your skin?
qutopian palimpsests blast
piercing the ironic haze
space-time origami
quantum tsunami
collapse, the end of all days
- Eric Shinn

With cameos by: Annie Sprinkle, Che Guevara, Liberace’s teen lover, ‘big-eyed’ style ghost
painter Margaret Keane, the Berlin Wall, Quentin Crisp, yoga, Kathie Lee Gifford’s sweatshop
labour; Harry and Jack Smith, the Battle of Seattle, Wayne Gretzky, Ho Chi Minh, cosmonaut
stamps, mob ties and Vegas retirements, Nelson Mandela, many more.

A tour schedule is available here: www.astriasuparak.com/dates.htm

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Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of the Street Stencil, is now in it's fourth pressing on Soft Skull Press, www.stencilpirates.org, or order it at: www.justseeds.org/stencilpirates

The Celebrate People's History Poster Series, 32 posters and running: www.justseeds.org/cph

Paper Politics Brooklyn: 200 political prinkmakers in one show. January 5th-February 19th, 2006, at 5+5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (www.5plus5gallery.com)