Andres discusses the troubled history of CO2 removal, sharing drawings from his book along the way.

Andres Chang

A New Plan to Capture Greenhouse Gas — Book Talk with Andres Chang

Andres Chang is a mixed media artist and a senior researcher at Greenpeace USA.

His first book, A New Plan to Capture Greenhouse Gas, documents how growth-minded politicians, industrialists, and engineers have spent decades advocating for CO2 removal, at the expense of real climate solutions. Surprising stories surface: a failed “CO2 dump” experiment off the coast of Hawaii, an MIT partnership with the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco, a campaign to deregulate pollution on the high seas, and more. Andres tells these stories in a unique style of drawing that incorporates archival research and reproduction.

In a talk celebrating the book’s release, Andres discusses the troubled history of CO2 removal and what it could mean for climate movement organizers today. Of course, he shares drawings from his book along the way.

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Homes + Studios is an archive of artists’ homes and studios and architectural gems around the world most of which you can visit.

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A Visit to the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation (IRL)

A one-hour guided tour of the home, studio, and art collections of the late modern American sculptor Chaim Gross. 

The tour will explore Gross’s sculpture studio and gallery as well as living and dining space featuring their private art collection. The tour will also explore the foundation’s exhibition space.

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IRL at 526 Laguardia Place  New York, NY 10012

The tour is limited to 12 people. Please only buy a ticket for yourself.

HH Hiaasen

Thank-You Mends

Put a little gratitude in your attitude towards your clothing that has some wear and tear by learning how to mend. 

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Radio is coming to Index! Tune into this live stream to get involved in producing audio content to share with the Index community.

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Index Radio info session

Radio is coming to Index! Join this session to learn how to produce audio content to share with the Index community.

If you missed the info sesh, then you can check out the recording 

This event will be livestreamed on the Index Public Square.

We will post the recording on this page after the event.

Index FM Info Session

A collaborative pixel graphic and 8-bit letter drawing class on Google Sheets.

Michelle Devlin

Pixel Play

A crash course in drawing pixel graphics and 8-bit letters on the computer with Google Sheets.

This course is for casual learners interested in exploring the creative potential of everyday office applications. People should take this course if they want to dip their toes into the world of pixel art, excel art, or in this case, Google Sheet Parties.

Let’s come together to see how people express themselves on the internet through image, emojis, text, color, and more. Let’s walk through a blank, digital landscape composed of malleable cells ready to be filled with text, color, and more! Digital footprints are welcome.

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Sam Taylor

Index Community Mixer

A fun virtual hang where you can make new Index besties!

The Index Community is made up of a bunch of rad people and it’s about time you got to know them better! Come join us for a round of rapid-fire introductions and a community-wide conversation about friendship, third spaces, and how we can all work together to create more opportunities for nurturing new friendships at Index.

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Michael Worthington

Kick Over The Statues

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Collective Reading: The Extreme Self

We are living in an accelerated culture. Things tend to feel overwhelming and our minds hold a kaleidoscopic array of information. This reading group will use The Extreme Self to host conversations on the overwhelming present we live in and how we react to it.

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JOHANNES BREYER

Dinamo – All Fonts Are Bastards

Johannes, 1/12th of Dinamo, will present the studio and take you through our ups and downs of trying to navigate the indie type foundry game.


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Hosted IRL at Other Means in Brooklyn, or livestreamed

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Mia Schacter

I Said No

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Will Hallett

How the Internet Could Be a Hospital

An artist talk and workshop on how to make a meme that talks (about a revolution)


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How the Internet Could be a Hospital: Mutual Aid at the Video Store

ELAN KIDERMAN-ULLENDORFF

Deep Sea Diving on Twitter

Plunging into the deepest darkest corners of the internet.

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Community Conversations: On Hope

7-minute presentations from Index community members. This week’s topic: Hope!

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Collective Reading: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

This Collective Reading session will focus on a piece of writing from Ursula K. Le Guin titled "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction".

Deep Sea Diving on the Web

Plunging into the deepest darkest corners of the internet on our lunch break.

Collective Reading: All About Love

A collective reading of bell hooks' All About Love. Join to read the whole book, or pop in week to week to read a chapter or two.

All About Love

Justine Daum

Producing a Podcase

In this workshop, we’ll talk about the elements that go into producing a non-fiction podcast episode, including tips for preparing for interviews and writing episode scripts.

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Join us for a free talk with Louise Paradis about her work on 30 Years of Swiss Typographic Discourse  in the Typografische Monatsblätter.

As per the speaker's request, this talk will not be recorded.

Livestream on the Index Public Square (our homepage)

A Talk about the Typografische Monatsblätter Research Archive

A Talk with Louise Paradis

Let’s come together on the first workday of the new year to set an intention for this year ahead. Through guided meditation, we’ll look inward to choose a private purpose that we can continually use throughout the coming months to define our choices, guide our relationships and mark our hopes for growth and change.

Please tune in from a quiet place where you can sit on the floor. No previous experience with meditation or doing anything like this before is required. Just come and carve out some time and space for yourself to reflect and elucidate your hopes for the new year.

Let’s come together on the first workday of the new year to set an intention for this year ahead. Through guided meditation, we’ll look inward to choose a private purpose that we can continually use throughout the coming months to define our choices, guide our relationships and mark our hopes for growth and change.

Please tune in from a quiet place where you can sit on the floor. No previous experience with meditation or doing anything like this before is required. Just come and carve out some time and space for yourself to reflect and elucidate your hopes for the new year.

Intention Setting + Guided Mediation

Intention Setting + Guided Metitation

Jake Brussel Faria

Painting a Website: Bindery

Watch as Ryan Scheuer builds a website from scratch, layer by layer.

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Painting a Website

Lyra Kilston presents an illustrated talk on the 19th-century health seekers, who fled overcrowded cities in pursuit of nature cures. Starting with the rural sanatorium movement in Europe, she then focuses on the healthful beacon of California, which lured people with illnesses and their (often dubious) healers in droves.

An illustrated talk on the 19th-century health seekers, who fled overcrowded cities in pursuit of nature cures. Starting with the rural sanatorium movement in Europe, she then focuses on the healthful beacon of California, which lured people with illnesses and their (often dubious) healers in droves.

Lyra Kilston is a writer and editor in Los Angeles focused on architecture, ecology, design, art, urbanism, oddballs, and lesser-known histories.

 (Atelier Éditions (http://atelier-editions.com/store/sun-seekers-the-cure-of-california), 2019), looks at three moments in Southern California history and the many eccentric newcomers—from fervent nature-cure healers to modern architects to barefoot vegetarian hermits—who built up the region’s renown as a center for healthy, natural lifestyles long before the 1960s.

The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Los Angeles Times, Next City, Artforum, Wired, TIME, Hyperallergic, Art in America, ICON, frieze,

 museum and biennial publications, and inspired an award-winning KCET documentary. She is an editor for the Getty Museum, a consulting editor for 

 and on the Advisory Council of Minerva Projects. Previously she was on the research and curatorial team of the architecture exhibition 

Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990

, presented at the Getty Museum and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Like Southern Californians of a century past, she enjoys curative sun baths.

Registered guests will receive a link to join via email 30 mins before the talk.

Taking the Cure: A Talk with Lyra Kilston

A journey in pursuit of interdependence, reimagining the cooperative supermarket by extending ownership to workers, customers and planet alike.

Our overtly individualized world would like to have us believe that agency is the capacity to act “independently.” But in their own search for increased agency, Bryan Wolff and Marc Vermeeren have found the opposite to be true. In this talk they speak to their journey of pursuing interdependence over independence, both as a new creative collective and in the collective’s first project: “HyperCOOP,” a reimagining of the cooperative supermarket, extending ownership to workers, customers and planet alike.

In Search of Agency at the Supermarket

Caps Lock — A Book Talk with Ruben Pater

In this workshop, you will learn how to contribute to open-source libraries and publish your own @my-handle/toolkit package for code that you use throughout your projects. We'll talk a bit about "why" of open source software - What are the larger impacts of OSS? How can we better share our knowledge and tools with others? What can we learn from the history of open source? We'll then dive into the "how" - how NPM works, tips for making your library contributor-friendly, and a range of tooling and concepts such as semantic versioning, typescript, test-driven development, and continuous integration.

This workshop is open to people of all skill levels. The only requirements are familiarity with Javascript and Git/Github. If you aren't a developer, you'll be able to pair with someone who is and get a peek into how things work under the hood. Participants who are familiar with or interested in Typescript will have the option of using it, but this is optional.

Open Source Package Publishing

Personal publishing as a haven to protect your copyright, your data and your ~mind~.

Decentralized Publishing: Bring Back the Blogs

How to create a brand for the post-digital era

Open Source Brand 101

How to Have Ballsy Conversations

Let’s get glassy. Please purchase 1 ticket for everyone who’s coming with you.

Glass House tour 8/28

Pasta, Together

Mediated Meditations

Open House

Open House with Desmond Wong and Christina Janus

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Disobey: A playful guide to disobedience, creativity, and rebellion

*an obviously incomplete guide, but definitely some worthwhile insights.

Andrew wrote a book! Join us for a lunchtime talk and hear about the time he painted a 1km circle around the National Museum of Art in Romania, and his process creating this book as the foundation for a system of future books documenting works not yet made.

 is the first in a series of books by Andrew Herzog documenting one of his public art installations. The first Report centers around Herzog’s 2018 installation, 

, in which he painted a meter wide, one-kilometer diameter circle around the National Museum of Art of Romania. This book is the result of looking for a “how-to” guide/ any insights for making public art and not really finding it. It tells the entire story of how the installation was completed–all of the people and relationships that made it possible, all of the good ideas and bad ideas, hard parts, fun parts, bureaucratic parts, and easy parts along the entire nearly year-long journey.

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