Ask Dyke Action Machine -- @DAM! -- about DAM!

STATEMENT

Founded by Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner in 1991, Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a public art collaboration which critiques mainstream culture by inserting lesbian images into a recognizably commercial context. For the past nine years, we have produced an annual 5,000-piece poster campaign which is wheat-pasted on the streets of New York City, right next to mainstream outdoor advertising and becomes a seamless part of the visual environment. DAM!'s public art projects, while "passing" as advertising, reach a more diverse audience than exhibitions at galleries or museums.

In addition to our annual street installation, DAM!'s campaigns have been anthologized in many books and included in exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe at venus such as White Columns, Exit Art, The University Museum (UC Berkeley) and Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France and "Mixing Messages," the 1997 survey of contemporary graphic design at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

DAM! FAQ Press Release

BIOS

Carrie Moyer is a painter and graphic designer. Her paintings and drawings have been shown all over the U.S. and Europe and were included this year in exhibitions at Greene Naftali Gallery and Threadwaxing Space, New York City and the Neue Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany. Since 1990, she has created agitprop for many lesbian and gay organizations including the Lesbian Avengers, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, and Queer Nation, as well as commercial advertising, package and web-site design. Carrie Moyer

Sue Schaffner Sue Schaffner is an editorial and advertising photographer. Under the alias, girl ray, she shoots primarily on location and from her West Chelsea studio in New York. Her work includes portraits of featured media personalities for Wired Magazine and documenting lesbian and gay nightlife culture for HX magazine (a downtown New York party paper). Her photographs have appeared in various publications including Glamour, Men's Health, Entertainment Weekly, People, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and Money.

ABOUT THE SITE:

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DAM! FAQ HAS BEEN SPONSORED BY:

The Peter Norton Family Foundation
The Astraea National Lesbian Action Fund
HX Magazine

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Echo Communications

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Jervis, Lisa, "Bitch Profile: Dyke Action Machine," Bitch Magazine, Summer 1999 Joselit, David, "Exhibiting Gender," Art In America, January 1997 Lippy, Tod, "Dial Tone," Print VI, 1996
	Loos, Tod, "Lesbian Poster Girls," The Advocate, December 22, 1998 Lupton, Ellen, Mixing Messages: Graphic Design In Contemporary Culture, Abrams, 1996 McQuiston, Liz, Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond, Phaidon Press, 1997
"News From the Loop: Dyke Action Machine...," Flash Art, Summer 1995 Osman, Jena and Juliana Spahr, eds., "Documentary," Chain #2 Rand, Erica, "Troubling Customs," New Art Examiner, Summer 1998 Rando, Flavia and Jonathan Weinberg ed., Art Journal, College Art Assoc., Winter 1998, Vol 55, No. 4
	Schlesinger, Toni and Guy Trebay, "Alphabet City," The Village Voice, December 1998 Schorr, Collier, "Poster Girls," Artforum, October 1994 Smyth, Cherry, Damn Fine Art By New Lesbian Artists, Cassell, 1996 Straayer, Chris, Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-Orientations in Film and Video, Columbia University Press, 1996 Turner, Kay, Dear Sappho: Lesbian Love Letters, Past and Present, Thames & Hudson, 1996

HOW TO DONATE TO DAM!

Dyke Action Machine is one of the only public art projects dedicated solely to promoting lesbian visibility. If you feel that the positive lesbian message that we put out is a vital one that has the power to stop a teenager from committing suicide, the power to educate a community where violence against gays is ever-increasing, or perhaps just create a work environment where it is okay to be a dyke; then a donation is critical. We need your lesbian, gay, bi, transgendered and het financial support to accomplish these goals. We cannot continue without your help.

Dyke TV graciously acts as our fiscal sponsor, which means they cash the check for us using their non-profit status and then transfer the funds to Dyke Action Machine. So please make your tax-deductible donation to DYKE TV, c/o Dyke Action Machine, PO Box 1598, Peter Stuyvesant Station. New York, NY 10009.

CONTACT
info@dykeactionmachine.com