#thisisnotamask Covid-19 Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention Favorite 

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Jul 1 2020

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Online and everywhere...

#thisisnotamask
Covid-19 Pandemic Rubber Stamp Currency Intervention
Website: https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/

For more information:
Joseph DeLappe artist/activist – j.delappe@abertay.ac.uk
Brent Richardson media artist – brent@BrentRich.com

Let’s mask the presidents!

”#thisisnotamask” is a crowd sourcing initiative to invite volunteers to stamp masks onto the faces of presidents featured on their cash. President Donald Trump couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask, so let’s use our cash to send a message. We are inviting anyone to join us in stamping their money with masks. Strategically stamping a mask on portraits on cash is a symbolic act take a stand for basic decency, empathy and care in light of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic.

#thisisnotamask is a collaborative, creative response, by artist/activists Joseph DeLappe and Brent Richardson to the issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is how it works. Get a stamp, stamp your cash then send us some photos.

Join in today! https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/participate

View examples of dozens of stamped cash sent in by project participants HERE:
https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/

#thisisnotamask rubber stamps will be sent within the continental USA for $5, we are only covering our costs of production and shipping - this is not a money-making venture, just a money stamping one! $1 for each ordered stamp will be donated to worth COVID-19 support charities. International orders, please contact us at thisisnotamask@gmail.com.

To learn more about who we are:
Joseph DeLappe - http://www.delappe.net
American artist/activist and Guggenheim Fellow based in Dundee, Scotland. Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University. Works in online gaming performance, crowdsourcing, public engagements, participatory sculpture and installation have been shown throughout the United States and internationally. DeLappe is considered a pioneer of digital interventions and activist practices in online and real-world contexts.

Brent Richardson - http://brentrich.com/
Brent Richardson is a Houston, Texas-based artist working in a variety of mediums to create interactive electronic sculptures and installations. In addition to gallery art exhibitions, Brent has pursued outlets empowering people to make meaningful change in their community through artistic interventions. This work has taken many forms from building interactive museum experiences to developing Fab Lab Houston, a place for people to make almost anything using digital fabrication equipment.

This is the fourth in a series of rubber stamps for intervening upon your currency.

Check out other activist rubber stamps here, including: 
http://indroneswetrust.tumblr.com/ 
http://handsupsdontshoot.tumblr.com/ 
https://sealevelrising.tumblr.com/

External sources: 

https://thisisnotamask.tumblr.com/
Posted by josephdelappe on Jul 10 2020

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Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign.  Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Timeframe For change

This project seems to be part of a campaign with a clear short-term goal. Short-term goals tend to be things like: create or repeal a law; get a President impeached; make the city administration repair a sidewalk. A campaign with a short-term goal needs a clear theory of change, complete with targets that can be cajoled or pressured into effecting the goal.
To get people to wear masks.

Notes

As the project has just been launched this is difficult to define at this time.