[ RECENT WORK ]

From October 4th 2020 through February 14th 2021 agents Peter Miles Bergman and Heather Link-Bergman of The Institute of Sociometry (the organization we get the is from) were honored to be included in the exhibition Citizenship: A Practice of Society at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver with their installation Leftist Leaflets In Little Free Libraries.

Please enjoy this artist talk from 1/27/21 which covers LLiLL but also work from the preceding decade:

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#is giving a shoutout to @frankkwiatkowski for pri

#is giving a shoutout to @frankkwiatkowski for printing the whole 100+ run of zine covers while I was doing academic advising over zoom!!!
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#letterpress #letterpressprinting #vandercook #printmaking #releifprint #linocut #conecut #zine #zines #metallicink

#is restocked in the store with God In A Bottle zi

#is restocked in the store with God In A Bottle zines by @frankkwiatkowski!!!
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God In A Bottle collects scans of Frank’s conecuts (relief prints made with engraved traffic cones) of insulin bottles and diabetic injection motifs. The covers are printed in copper ink on a Vandercook Letterpress off of engraved traffic cones by the artist on three color variants. The kraft zine in the middle shows the back cover. Hand stitched by yours truly...
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We have 20 traffic cone orange, 26 red plike, and 54 French kraft. $7 - we split the money 50/50 with the artist and love to do wholesale to your book store, kiosk, or sanitarium. Check the link...
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#letterpress #letterpressprinting #printmaking #releifprint #linocut #conecut #zine #zines #metallicink #diabetes #type1diabetes #type1warrior #insulin

#is wondering why it took six editions of God In A

#is wondering why it took six editions of God In A Bottle by @frankkwiatkowski for us to print these engraved traffic cone relief print zine covers on traffic cone orange paper!!!
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#letterpress #letterpressprinting #vandercook #printmaking #releifprint #linocut #conecut #zine #zines #metallicink

#is thankful for the work people send me to keep t

#is thankful for the work people send me to keep this ‘lil press afloat. (Ok... that press definitely would not float)...
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Letterpress covers for @almightyandinsanebooks new release Windy City Leisure Chicago Social Athletic Clubs of the Early 20th Century available right now at the Almighty & Insane portal @printedmatter_artbookfairs!
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#letterpress #print #printsnotdead #diy #printmaking #artbook #letterpressprinting #goldink #design #typography #chandlerandprice #pmvabf #pmvabf2021

#is always mesmerized by a press getting inked up.

#is always mesmerized by a press getting inked up...
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#letterpress #print #printsnotdead #diy #printmaking #letterpressprinting #chandlerandprice #artstudio #artstudiolife

#is flashing back to a few weeks ago to share thes

#is flashing back to a few weeks ago to share these no longer top secret letterpress covers for Windy City Leisure by Almighty & Insane Books (@almightyandinsanebooks)!!!
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This gold on royal blue beauties are now bound onto a rad book on Chicago Social Clubs of the early 20th century. You can pick one up at the Almighty & Insane online booth at the currently live @printedmatter_artbookfairs!
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#letterpress #print #printsnotdead #diy #printmaking #artbook #letterpressprinting #goldink #design #typography #chandlerandprice #pmvabf #pmvabf2021

#is honored to have had the opportunity to co-publ

#is thinking it’s time to introduce is self to t

#is thinking it’s time to introduce is self to the new acolytes...
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The is in our name is an acronym. is PRESS is the press of the Institute is Sociometry. Sociometry is “the quantitative analysis of individuals and their relationship to groups.” is focuses on guerrilla Sociometry which is thematically similar but does not conform to the rigors of math or science!!!
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Instead is deploys strategies from ‘pataphysics, dada, situationism, fluxus, neoism, culture jamming, immediatism, and cacophony...
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Since it’s founding in 1995 is has accredited over 700 special agents in 23 countries by mailing out a version of the pictured (swipe) starter kit. The application process is dead simple; mail is a piece of art, a poem, zine, or incidence report to PO Box 9542 Denver, CO 80209 USA...
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#allseeingeye #mail #mailart #art #design #conceptualart #specialagent #starterkit #culturejamming #dada #immediatism #fluxus #neoism

#is wanting to thank the several people who’ve p

#is honored to have been able to work on this exhi

#is honored to have been able to work on this exhibition with my ‘artner and valentine ❤️@heatherlinkbergman - who knew just where to take this idea and just what to do with the pile of information I’d created over four months of surveilling everyone who walked in front of our house to take it to the next level...
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I have so much admiration for this lady’s intelligence, humor, creativity, and aesthetic sensibilities. Look for big things from this one in the future! And damn she looks good on that video! ⚡️
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#art #artinstillation #denverartist #denver #contemporaryart #conceptualart #socialpractice #politicalart #culturejamming #artivism #valentine #artners

#is wanting to thank the PEOPLE who came out in a

#is wanting to thank the PEOPLE who came out in a pandemic to see “Citizenship: A Practice of Society” @mca_denver, the artists and publishers who contributed their zines, the curatorial staff for putting together such an important overall exhibition - especially @zoeslarkins, friends and family who couldn’t make it but offered sincere congratulations, those who tuned in to our artist’s talk or streamed it later, our former studio assistant @chandlerbreeart for pushing 1,000 tacks into the wall, the gallery sitters who listened to @heatherlinkbergman’s 45 minute seminar/performance over and over again, and the installers who helped us put this up and will help us take it down tomorrow morning. 🖤 You!!!
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#art #artinstillation #denverartist #denver #contemporaryart #conceptualart #socialpractice #politicalart #culturejamming #artivism

#is so so full of gratitude to have had the opport

#is so so full of gratitude to have had the opportunity to participate in the @mca_denver exhibition “Citizenship: A Practice of Society” curated by @zoeslarkins. Thank you! 🙏
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It’s been a hard year. Also, as an artist committed to an off-kilter social and political practice in which the work’s position as “art” is continually in question, it’s kinda’ been a hard 25 years on this grind. But this right here has been some really appreciated validation. Keep doing what you do, they’ll come around eventually! 👊
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#art #artinstillation #denverartist #denver #contemporaryart #conceptualart #socialpractice #politicalart #culturejamming #artivism

#is catching up with KT from @thesearecollages via

#is catching up with KT from @thesearecollages via post and returning receipt of this great collage with an is Special Agent Starter Kit! We met KT at Miami Zine Fest like three years ago and love her work! STöKED to get some in this mail Art exchange!!!
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Now accepting Special Agent applications. Mail a zine or other mail art to: is PO Box 9542 Denver, CO 80209 and we’ll send you a starter kit!!!
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#zine #zines #mail #mailart #mailartist #penpals #specialagent #savetheusps #artistsoninstagram #art #collage

#is hitting every channel with all around Denver A

#is hitting every channel with all around Denver Art denizen @joshaiman. We’d been following each other on the medias for a bit, then Josh bought some books from us online, the we RAN INTO HIM, out in meat world, and now via post with this postcard of Alcatraz surrounded by green slime returned with a Special Agent Kit. Cool to make new friends in this time of isolation. John got a bonus MisMerch’d by @heatherlinkbergman!!!
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Now accepting Special Agent applications. Mail a zine or other mail art to: is PO Box 9542 Denver, CO 80209 and we’ll send you a starter kit!!!
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#zine #zines #mail #mailart #mailartist #penpals #specialagent #savetheusps #artistsoninstagram #art #postcard

#is returning some mail to the PO Box from this mo

#is returning some mail to the PO Box from this month with is Special Agent Starter Kits...
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This nicely designed zines by @transittransittransit document a particular transit route in different cities with personal observational narrative. Thanks for the zines Justin! Hope you can put your kit to use!!!
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Now accepting Special Agent applications. Mail a zine or other mail art to: is PO Box 9542 Denver, CO 80209 and we’ll send you a starter kit!!!
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#zine #zines #mail #mailart #mailartist #penpals #specialagent #savetheusps #artistsoninstagram #art #design

#is getting orders out the door! 📫 You can now

#is so excited to have a baby blue Coronet Electri

#is so excited to have a baby blue Coronet Electric 12 humming in the studio again. My long-time Y2K compliant Smith Corona’s motor went out a few years back - and I started cannibalizing the keys to make jewelry. (Swipe x2 to see what is now my parts machine for my new hot rod.)...
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Inspired by what’s going on at @typewriterrevolution I decided to start scouring ebay and after a month of monitoring I found the EXACT SAME model - same color theme and all - IN A CASE for $29.00 (plus you know $55 shipping.) Pumped to be clacking out letters again!!!
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WRITE ME! PO Box 9542, Denver CO 80209.
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#typewriter #typewritersofinstagram #smithcorona #smithcoronatypewriter #letters #type #mail #mailart #savetheusps

#is HYPED to be sending out our first subscription

#is HYPED to be sending out our first subscription packs! ⚡️Thanks to my new same city pen pal Scott Davis and longtime agent Ron Reeves 🤘 of @spandexstudios for picking up subscriptions on our shiny ✨new @patreon account! Cruise by the link on our bio to check out the tiers! You can get a quarterly zine sub for $3.25/mo.! LESS than a cup of coffee! (Or maybe less than a Latté. 😜)...
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And of course you get an Institute of Sociometry special agent starter kit with your subscription!!!
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Pictured work. Follow Focus #1 by @abstract_city NOW SOLD OUT! 😥 Second to last Raw Fury #4 published with @flatlands_press with a bonus Flatlands @maxsansing patch 👀 and Mis Merch’d Vol. 1 by ‘artner extraordinaire heatherlinkbergman 💚...
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#zine #zines #photobook #artbook #letterpress #swag #print #printsnotdead #indiepress #smallpress #mail #mailart #savetheusps #starterkit #patreon

#is STÖKED to be giving an artist talk with my ta

#is inviting one and all to this FREE live-streame

#is clearing my aura in prep for @heatherlinkbergm