[ 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 amped to get these tools for the revolution in

#is saying it with our cursive DYNO punch labeler.

#is psyched to send out the two (count ‘em TWO)

#is saddle stitching a fresh batch of Slave Nation

Slave Nation | By Frank Kwiatkowski | Originally p

#is jammin’ on some conecut letterpress covers f

is EMANCIPATION is a 11″ square 130 page book wi

is EMANCIPATION is a 11″ square 130 page book with 2-color letterpress covers printed and hand-bound with a Japanese stitch in an edition of 200. 2016, Denver, Colorado
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Normally $45, this book is on sale for $30 until the end of March!!!
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is EMANCIPATION is a 21 year anthology of art intervention and prank collective The Institute of Sociometry edited, designed, and partly authored by Peter Miles Bergman and edited by MCA Denver Curatorial Associate Zoe Larkins.
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is EMANCIPATION contains the contributions of 11 additional authors ranging from a Guggenheim Fellow, Igor Vamos, to an inmate in the California State Prison System, Charles Twain Clemans who also contributed the primary illustrations.
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Editors:
Peter Miles Bergman
Zoe Larkins
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Contributors:
Igor Vamos
Carrie Galbraith
Peter Miles Bergman
Jay Critchley
Jim Hanson
Charles Twain Clemans
Jared Jacang Maher
Zoe Larkins
Christian Roth
Brian Dick
Christen Sperry-Garcia
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#is drilling and Japanese stitching a batch of is

#is cutting down and binding the last 40 is EMANCI

#is cutting down and binding the last 40 is EMANCIPATION books in the edition of 200. This 21 year anthology of is was the catalog for the last is Fair in Los Angeles in 2016. We’re finishing out the edition for the next is Fair - rumored to be this year in Denver!!!
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(The is Fair has gone down every four years since 1996 on the same schedule as the summer Olympics. Like the Olympics we had to postpone from 2020 to 2021)...
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#is steadily whittling down the stack of Citizensh

#is steadily whittling down the stack of Citizenship catalogs. 13 left of the run of 300! This catalog is for a 2020-21 exhibition of the same name @mca_denver! In addition to having an instillation in the exhibition (check our story highlights) we had the honor of designing and co-publishing this exhibition catalog (and letterpress printing those covers designed by is PRESS ‘artner @heatherlinkbergman)...
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#is STöKED to get this mega order of Heather and

#is STöKED to get this mega order of Heather and I’s publications in the mail to California. I always wonder about these rare “I’ll take it all” orders. (Maybe demonstrating a lack of confidence that someone wants THIS MUCH of our work!) More often than not it’s an academic library, which was strange the first few times but is now an official trend. We ❤️ libraries. Let’s see if I hear back on where these are ending up...
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#is beating a path to the post office this week. I

#is beating a path to the post office this week. I love getting this zine into the hands of an inspiring artist and colleague @lesliedylanboyd! Thank you! Hopefully you got it already and this isn’t a spoiler!!!
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MAN MADE is a zine about walking across Wyoming on the Contitnental Divide (and mysticism, litter, art, and friendship)...
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#is pretty sure there’s nothing more satisfying

#is pretty sure there’s nothing more satisfying than printing your own business cards on your own press in your own studio. Own the means of production!!!
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Check out the process on my BCs story highlight.
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#is having a hard time deciding. Red? Or Blue? …

#is having a hard time deciding. Red? Or Blue?
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#is hammering some silver ink into these festive r

#is hammering some silver ink into these festive red and blue Special Agent business cards...
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I’ve been a Special Agent of the Institute of Sociometry (or is) for 28 years. Sociometry is the quantitative analysis of individuals and their relationship to groups. At the Institute we practice Guerilla Sociometry which is similar in focus but does not conform to the rigors of science or math. Instead we deploy epistemic strategies from ‘Pataphtsics, Dada, Situationism, Fluxus, Neoism, Immediatism, and Ontological Anarchy...
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The is in “is PRESS” is an acronym for Institute of Sociometry, for is PRESS is the official press of is... is is also a verb used to express the present tense third person singular of “be”. Be in turn means “exist”...
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To become an is Special Agent send a piece of mail art with your return address to PO Box 9542, Denver CO, 80209...
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#is all set and ready to jam out a pile of busines

#is all set and ready to jam out a pile of business cards... Work for another day. This was so peaceful and relaxing. It’s always good to remind yourself you can design with your hands and not just your track pad...
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#is looking at you! I got this eye cut out of a li

#is looking at you! I got this eye cut out of a little bin of graphics for lodges; Elks, Moose, Shriners ect... This was with the Masonic stuff. Seems fitting for the Institute of Sociometry. Strange... Mysterious...
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#is having a mellow Sunday hiding from snowmageddo

#is having a mellow Sunday hiding from snowmageddon hand setting some type for a couple different business cards to cover all things is...
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#is in my happy place… … I bought this little

#is in my happy place...
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I bought this little nipping press out of the back of an suv in a parking lot in Denver. The guy had eight of them - $100 each. He asked me what I was going to use it for. I looked at him dumbfounded by his question. “For bookbinding! As it should be!”...
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#is burning the candle to finish some more MAN MAD

#is sewing up a batch of 30 MAN MADE zines. This m

#is sewing up a batch of 30 MAN MADE zines. This makes 200 since releasing this in late 2019! The first edition is 505 but I’m waiting to drop those with two books about the same series of on foot journeys (in editions of 303 each for a total of... 1111) later this year...
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