Stephen Duncombe
Stephen has over two decades of experience as both a teacher and an organizer. With a PhD in Sociology from CUNY Graduate Center, he has taught in the City and State University’s of New York and is currently a professor of Media and Politics at New York University. While at SUNY he received the prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Teaching. An activist his entire adult life, he co-founded the multi-issue community activist group in the mid 1990s, the Lower East Side Collective, which won an award for “Creative Activism” from the Abbie Hoffman foundation. He was also a lead organizer in the international direct action group Reclaim the Streets. He is the author and editor of five books, including the Cultural Resistance Reader and Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy, and writes for a wide range of scholarly and popular publications, including The Nation, The New York Times and Playboy. In 2009 he was a Research Associate at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City where he helped organize The College of Tactical Culture and he is presently co-founder and director of the new Center for Artistic Activism. Duncombe is currently working on a book on the art of propaganda during the New Deal and an open-access, open-source, web-based edition of Thomas More’s Utopia .
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Steve Lambert
Steve Lambert’s father, a former Franciscan monk, and mother, an ex-Dominican nun, imbued the values of dedication, study, poverty, and service to others – qualities which prepared him for life as an artist.
Lambert made international news just after the 2008 US election with The New York Times “Special Edition,” a replica of the grey lady announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other good news. He is the founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency, lead developer of Add-Art (a Firefox add-on that replaces online advertising with art) and has collaborated with numerous artists including the Graffiti Research Lab, and the Yes Men.
Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, and others. His work has been shown at various galleries, art spaces, and museums both nationally and internationally, and in the collections of The Sheldon Museum, the Progressive Insurance Company, and The United States Library of Congress. Lambert has appeared live on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, and been reported on in multiple outlets including Associated Press, the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper’s, The Believer, Good, Dwell, ARTnews, Punk Planet, and Newsweek.
He was a Senior Fellow at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York, developed and leads workshops for Creative Capital, and is faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Steve is a perpetual autodidact with (if it matters) advanced degrees from an art school and a state university. He dropped out of high school in 1993.