# Jacques Servin
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jacques servin (also known as Andy Bichlbaum) is one of the leading members of The Yes Men, a culture jamming activist group. Their exploits in "identity correction" are documented in the films The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World and The Yes Men Are Revolting. As Ray Thomas, he is a co-founder of RTMark.A former Maxis employee, he was fired after secretly adding code into the game SimCopter that would cause sprites of men in swimming trunks kissing each other to appear on certain dates.
Jacques Servin: Crypto-Optimist
Activist and filmmaker Jacques Servin talks about shoplifting in airports.
ABOUT THE GUEST Jacques Servin is co-founder of the Yes Men, an activist filmmaking collective that's plagued dozens of entities including Exxon, Shell, the NRA, and the US Department of Energy. In the process he's co…
December 08, 2017 | 112BK
This is 112BK, coming to you from BRIC House in downtown Brooklyn. On the show today: Six years after Zuccotti Park was cleared a Yes Man on what activism can achieve Jacques Servin; experiencing homelessness in Brooklyn? Nadia Rose & Lorraine Langer are here to give you the information you need; a…
The Yes Men on Trump, Barbie, and Bird Dogging
Do The Yes Men know how to beat Trump at his own game? The media savvy duo Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos gained fame in 1990’s for their lefty political pranks, which led to multiple documentaries, cult following of like-minded activists, and, most important, corporations taking notice. They expose…
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (4): The Yes Men and Samantha Holmes
In 2012, the Institute held a day long symposium, “Should you ever happen to find yourself in solitary: Wry Fancies and Stark Realities.” The first presentation is by Jacques Servin and Mary Notari, members of The Yes Men, a performance activist group. Then we hear from avant garde artist and mosai…
Nick Flynn: Storytelling As Illness
Poet Nick Flynn talks about the ways in which he won't die.
ABOUT THE GUEST Nick Flynn has worked as a ship's captain, an electrician, and a caseworker for homeless adults. Some of the venues his poems, essays, and nonfiction have appeared in include the New Yorker, the Nation, the Paris R…
Episode 7: Conversation with Jacques Servin
Jacques Servin is one of the founders of the Yes Men, a prankster activist group whose work was profiled in The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix The World (2009), and The Yes Men Are Revolting (2014). We also co-taught a class at the New School in which we made a film with our students called How to…
7. Jacques Servin
Jacques Servin is a media artist and co-founder of the “Yes Men”, originally an activist duo that aims to expose wrong-doings of massive corporations through producing fake spectacles, disrupting events, and destroying brands. Since then, the initiative has transformed into a non-profit which part…
The Term “Border Security” Is Completely Inaccurate: A Podcast with Jacques Servin
This conversation, hosted by Todd Miller, about a great borderlands adobe brick building project is going great, until Jacques Servin—of the political performance artist trickster and activist troupe called the Yes Men—fails to grasp the meaning of the term "border security" — at least how it’s con…
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