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Grafitti Research Lab & Josh Macphee

April 27, 2006; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
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Upgrade! NY
April 2006

Upgrade! Anniversary Brunch marked the seventh year in graffiti style,

with Evan Roth and James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab, and stencil artist Josh MacPhee. Read On »

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microRevolt with Cat Mazza

April 30, 2005; 12:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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Upgrade! NY
April 2005

April marks the Ugrade! anniversary.  We entered the sixth year with our annual brunch at Eyebeam. The Upgrade! opened a day of events to mark the completion of renovations at Eyebeam’s Chelsea facility.

Our guest speaker was Cat Mazza, the founder of microRevolt. Cat talked about the microRevolt projects that use knitting, machines, and networks to draw attention to issues of sweatshop labor. Among the web projects are knitPro, Knitoscope and the Nike Petition Project. Cat talked about logo subversion, craft hobbyist culture and the anti-sweatshop movement. Read On »