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FIELD REPORT from Joanie Lemercier & Juliette Bibasse LARPA Presents: A Field Report from Joanie Lemercier & Juliette Bibasse Tuesday, April 21st · 6:30–9pm LARPA · 1013 Willoughby Ave @joanielemercier @juliettebibasse Joanie Lemercier and Juliette Bibasse work with light, projection, and solar energy. They sailed across the Atlantic and are stopping by LARPA to talk about it. Join us for a screening, a talk from Joanie and Juliette about what they’ve been doing and where they’re headed, followed by Q&A. RSVP in bio

HIGH CONCEPT, LOW EFFORT FILM NIGHTS ARE BACK AT LARPA DEC 17 @ 7PM A one-night-only distributed screening of the least popular films in the Criterion Collection: all playing simultaneously, in 480p, across a network of your phones. Event flow: Arrive. Navigate to the Criterionmaxxing website on your phone. Get assigned a film. Place your phone in the rig. All play simultaneously. For the first time ever, in 480p. Maximize Criterion intake as a collective. Disclaimer: Attendees must bring their own charged phone w data plan (can’t stream over our wifi). Groundbreaking Criterionmaxxing technology developed by Sam Lavigne, with additional support from Gabe Liberti + Claire Hentschker. @samlavigne @ntschk @gabeliberti DEC 17 @ 7PM Experimental films < experimental film screenings. Prioritize Intake over resolution.
Impress your film buff family over the holidays. Dm for address

Most evil computer ever hack a thon was a great success thanks all for coming ❤️❤️❤️

THE MOST EVIL COMPUTER EVER A Halloween Malware Hackathon *with Computer Sacrifice
 Join us for the most haunted LARPA event of all time... We want to build the worst, most evil computer that has ever existed by loading it with homemade malware and other dark ux patterns. This could include: screamsavers, Chrome extensions that rob you, haunted folders, corrupted files, a computer mouse made of knives... etc One sacrificial computer (LARPA provided, probably a mac) will be loaded with all the malicious creations from the hackathon, put on trial, and destroyed once and for all. Sign up for the hackathon. Or just come for the sacrifice of The Most Evil Computer Ever. THE STRUCTURE: THE HACKING (2pm - 6pm): Hackathon begins THE LOADING (6pm): All projects go onto USB drives, then into selected computer THE UNVEILING (6:30pm): We boot up the most evil computer THE EXE.CUTION (6:45pm): We destroy it When: NOV 2 Where: LARPA What to bring: Laptop, dark ideas, the evil spirit of technology that haunts you 👉 Sign up for the hackathon: [link in bio] Or just come to the smashing event at 6:30ish 🔨💀

LARPA presents… 🐀💻 FLAT RATS 💻🐀 Oct 2 · 6:30–9:30pm @ LARPA Join us for @alg0rat members debut showcase Exploring the ratular dimensions through works that span length, width, tails, and time. A multimedia exhibition featuring the work of ALGOrat members: Tatyana Mustakos, Connie Ye, Char Stiles, Caroline Hermans ( @poorly_documented , @c0n5tants , @charstiles , @carohermy ) , creators of the viral homemade rat dating sim “The Ratchlor” (seasons one, two, and three “Rats in the City” 🌹). Join us to play the games, meet 3/4 of the members irl, and view never before exhibited rodents and related inspo flattened across video games, drawings, watercolors, quizzes and more in this first ever algorat showcase. DO NOT MISS. Curated by @ntschk

LARPA CASE STUDIES → TODAY’S SOLUTIONS CREATING TOMORROW’S PROBLEMS @larpa.mill shares the latest advances in its ongoing research into • Making cinema 1-D • Committing tax fraud • Participating in the Olympics • Becoming data brokers • Running a shadow economy • Exploring high-dimensional datasets through song
 Join us as part of Rhizome World @rhizomedotorg at WSA @wsanyc on Sunday, May 11 at 2 PM. RSVP in bio.
 Come for the solutions, stay for the karaoke.
 ft. Jamie Brew, Claire Hentschker, Sam Lavigne, Tommy Martinez, Tee Topor and more? Or less? LARPA (LARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency) is a worker-rented studio and communal gallery space located in Bushwick dedicated to fostering experimental perspectives on digital culture. Music by @ogbabydiesal poster by @bozobill

HIGH ON WEBSITES Earlier this spring, we spent 10 weeks thinking and talking about The Browser as a place that is Already A Game Engine at School for Poetic Computation. Well, in the end we made some freak web games - and you can play them at LARPA in Brooklyn next week. Come through!

📢 LARPA PRESENTS: TAX HAVEN & TAX HELL A two-part event for tax season: Celebrate on Friday. Commiserate on Sunday. 🤑 PART 1: TAX HAVEN (FUN! ART! FRAUD!) Friday, 11th • 6–10 PM ✦ WRITE-OFF GALLERY LAUNCH: Join us for the opening of our temporary interactive pop-up micro-gallery: “The Write-Off.” BYO regrettable purchases from the past year, display them as art, and write them off your taxes! Official stamped certifications provided while supplies last. ✦ ART BY: • Sam Lavigne @samlavigne • Grayson Earle @prismspecs • Jackie Liu @jackieis.online • RYBN.org courtesy of @espacemultimediagantner • Tee Topor @bozobill • Aashish Gadani @aashish_gadani ✦ SCREENINGS: • Maura Brewer — “Offshore” @maurabrewer • Marc Da Costa — “Do You Have Anything to Report?” @marconline2000 • Morry Kolman — “Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Numbers” @wttdotm 🎤 artist q and a from @maurabrewer and @wttdotm ✦ TAX CODE KARAOKE: Swap classic karaoke lyrics in real-time with text datasets from the Panama Papers, U.S. Tax Code, and popular write-off categories. Hosted by Jamie Brew @jamieabrew & Jen Schiffer, powered by The Weird Algorithm. Additional support by Richard Lewei Huang @lewei.huang 😭 PART 2: TAX HELL (NOT FUN, CRISIS, MISERABLE) Sunday, 13th • 12–5 PM ✦ CO-WORKING PURGATORY: Work on your taxes alongside others. Tables, caffeine pills, and commiseration provided. ✦ WRITE-OFF GALLERY CONTINUED: Last call to art-wash regrettable spending ✦ TAX THERAPY: Vibe-adjusted emotional support provided by special guest 📍 LARPA Curated by @ntschk Posters by @bozobill

Thank you to everyone for coming to the first Internet Cafe, On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map at @larpa.mill ❤️ featuring amazing artists & speakers: Amad Ansari @badgalansari Ruba Al-Sweel @rrrrrruuuuuubbbbbbzzzzzz Camila Galaz @_camilagalaz Yoona @yo0n___a Ruby Thélot @being_on_line artwork pictured: Palestine Online, Amad Ansari @badgalansari FIRST PHONE, Ruba Al-Sweel @rrrrrruuuuuubbbbbbzzzzzz REDES: bread and justice, peaches and bananas, Camila Galaz @_camilagalaz this place ___ meant, Yoona @yo0n___a photos by @coco.simone stay tuned for #2 💻

💌 LARPA Craft Lab presents: Honey, I Shrinked the Dinks! 💌 Come fabricate experimental valentines using Shrinky Dinks™ ✨ 📆 February 13th • 6-9PM @jackieis.online @lizzthabet @ntschk are hosting an experimental Valentine’s craft night, featuring Shrinky Dinks™! Join us and make shrinking artifacts of affection for your friends, lovers, crushes, exes, & self. 🥂 Tiny foods & tiny drinks provided. 🎨 Beginner & advanced shrinkers welcome. ✂️ Shrinky Dinks™ & misc. craft and prototyping supplies available—feel free to BYOB or BYOCM (bring your own craft materials). *A plastic film that shrinks and hardens when heated. 💕 Shrinking of you <3 💕