Jacques Servin

Jacques Servin

Jacques Servin / Andy Bichlbaum is a co-founder of the Yes Men, a group that has accomplished numerous high-profile media interventions serving to highlight environmental, economic and social injustices and the systemic problems that lead to them. At the Hemispheric Institute, Jacques / Andy heads the Yes Lab, which helps students and others carry out media interventions.

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  • War is the ultimate failure of imagination
    War is the ultimate failure of imagination

    War is the ultimate failure of imagination. We must imagine better solutions and work toward them. Fortunately there’s already a homegrown left vision in Israel-Palestine, that’s supported by a large and increasing number of Arabs and Jews. It’s utopian…

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  • How Creative Hoaxes and Pranks Can Inspire Your Next Artistic Activism Campaign
    How Creative Hoaxes and Pranks Can Inspire Your Next Artistic Activism Campaign

    Inspiration can come from unexpected sources. In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, here’s a few hoaxes, pranks, and stunts that have inspired me, and might inspire an element of your next successful artistic action. Steve Lambert Czech Dream…

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  • Order our book: The Art of Activism
    Order our book: The Art of Activism

    The new book from the founders of the Center for Artistic Activism, The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible – published by O/R Books. An inspiring visual guide to making activism more creative with…

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  • The Good Liars: Making Voter Suppression Personal
    The Good Liars: Making Voter Suppression Personal

    Making Voter Suppression Personal is an Unstoppable Voters Project – a series of Center for Artistic Activism supported works that celebrate voting rights and counter voter suppression. Making Voter Suppression Personal The Yes Men and The Good Liars are…

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  • Politics of Humor in an Age of Fools
    Politics of Humor in an Age of Fools

    Notes from Stephen Duncombe’s presentation Politics of Humor in an Age of Fools HEMI Encuentro at UNAM, Mexico City, 10 June 2019 I’ve been thinking a lot about the politics of humor in these very dire and serious times. So…

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  • Webinar #22: hilariOUCH
    Webinar #22: hilariOUCH

    Steve and Steve get to hang out with Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, co-founder and co-director of Fulana, a Latina satire collective whose videos have been shown internationally at film festivals, museums, and universities, and whose members lead satire and parody workshops for emerging…

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  • Report on interviews with trainers & field-defining organizations
    Report on interviews with trainers & field-defining organizations

    Download: Report on Interviews with Trainers Field-Defining Organizations March 2017 Background Following the development of a literature review last year on measuring the impact of artistic/creative activism, The Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA), conducted interviews with artistic activism trainers…

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  • CAA, YesLab, and Beautiful Trouble work on Action Switchboard

    On Feb. 8-9, 2014, the Yes Lab, the Center for Artistic Activism, and Beautiful Trouble conducted a workshop with fifty participants, including members of eight social justice NGOs and a number of NYU students. The eight projects that resulted…

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  • Next Weekend–Creative Activist Training in NYC

    ONE WEEKEND ONLY! Beautiful Trouble, The Yes Lab (via The Yes Men), and Center For Artistic Activism are coming together for a one of a kind melding of the minds to provide an epic weekend of trainings in creative…

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  • Help our friends The YES MEN double their Funds for an AMAZING Project

    The Yes Men have ONE MORE WEEK to reach their $75,000 fundraising goal so that The Kindle Project will match it DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR. They are raising money for their new project, the Action Switchboard.  Click here to Donate…

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  • Trader’s Goldman Sachs comments spark BBC hoax claims

    Alessio Rastani, who claimed on BBC News ‘I dream of another recession’, is not a ‘Yes Man’ – but he could be an honest trader. He caused outrage with his comments on the global economic meltdown claiming “governments don’t…

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