updated June 26, 2008

Chris Carlsson

(415) 608-9035
email: cc@chriscarlsson.com

Professional Experience

Honors & Awards

Public Art

Documentary Video

Media Appearances

Public Appearances
for Shaping San Francisco

Writings
for
Processed World

Education

Cloverleaf Productions
Client List

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-present
Owner, Cloverleaf Productions, San Francisco

Book, magazine and multimedia design, desktop publishing, graphic design.

1995-Present
Director, Managing Editor, Chief Writer, Primary Designer
SHAPING SAN FRANCISCO: The Interactive Multimedia Excavation of the Lost History of San Francisco
CD-ROM, Public Kiosk, Website

2008
Author, Designer, Indexer
NOWTOPIA

AK Press (Oakland, Edinburgh, London)

2007 Autumn
Adjunct Faculty, New College of California

taught "Shaping San Francisco's Future" class

2006
Indexer
The Modern School Movement
, by Paul Avrich
AK Press (Oakland, Edinburgh, London)

1983-2005
Owner, Typesetting Etc., San Francisco
Typesetter, graphic designer, web designer. For twenty years, Typesetting Etc. served hundreds of typesetting/graphic design clients.

2004
Author, Designer
AFTER THE DELUGE

Full Enjoyment Books (San Francisco)

2004
Editor, Contributor, Designer, Indexer
THE POLITICAL EDGE

City Lights Foundation (San Francisco)

2004
Indexer
LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
, by Noam Chomsky, ed. Carlos Otero
Published by AK Press, Oakland, California.

2002
Editor, Contributor, Designer

CRITICAL MASS: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
AK Press (Oakland, CA: 2002)
Critical Mass: L'uso sovversivo della bicicletta (Italian translation)
Feltrinelli Editore Milano (Milan, Italy: 2003)


1998
Co-editor
, Co-designer, Contributor
RECLAIMING SAN FRANCISCO: History, Politics, Culture
City Lights Books (San Francisco: 1998)

1997-99
Art Director, Editorial Consultant, Web Designer
GREAT BASIN Magazine
(Carson City, Nevada)

1990
Co-editor, Co-designer, Contributor
BAD ATTITUDE: The Processed World Anthology
Verso Books (London: 1990)

1981-1994, 2001, 2004-5
Co-founder, Co-publisher/editor/art director/etc. Collective member
Processed World magazine
Within an ever-fluctuating unpaid collective environment, managed to produce 32 issues over thirteen years. Contributing writer, artist, copy editor, art director, publisher, managing editor, etc. Over a hundred graphics, fake ads, collages, etc. Frequent writer on questions of work, unions, ecology, technology, utopias, etc. See publication list below.

1986-93, 1999-2007
Co-founder, Board President
(2003-2008)
CounterPULSE (formerly Bay Area Center for Art & Technology)
A California non-profit corporation which sponsors numerous projects in literary, media, and performance arts.

1981-1983
Secretary/Receptionist
Pacific Software, Berkeley, CA
Pacific Software was the for-profit marketing company created by the progressive computer collective project called the Community Memory Project (CM). In the pre-net, post '60s era, Community Memory's theoreticians designed a system of public computer terminals in which anyone could put any message, comment, news, poetry, etc. and anyone could answer it and so on, in public places. CM anticipated the popularity of Internet participation by nearly two decades. Their own system has been installed and maintained in Santa Monica, California, Berkeley, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to name a few places.

HONORS & AWARDS

July 2007
Bicycle History Tours Win "Best Cruise Into the Past" from SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay!

September 2006
Resident, Blue Mountain Center Writers' Colony, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

October 2001
"GOLDEN WHEEL" Award from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

August-September 2001
Resident, Blue Mountain Center Writers' Colony, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

October 1999
Resident, The Mesa Refuge Writers’ Retreat, Pt. Reyes Station, CA

July 1999
"LOCAL HERO" AWARD from the San Francisco Bay Guardian

May 1998
AWARD OF MERIT from the San Francisco Historical Society

October 1991
Winner, Best Documentary, Humboldt State Univ. Film & Video Festival for Brazilian Dreams: Visiting Points of Resistance.

Processed World magazine

1990
Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award in Community Journalism

1990
Finalist, Alternative Press Awards, Utne Reader
• Coverage of Cutting-Edge Issues

1989
Finalist, Alternative Press Awards, Utne Reader
• Coverage of Cutting-Edge Issues
• Essays and Criticism
• Humor

PUBLIC ART

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ART installations (co-producer)

October 2003
"Waist High (and Higher) in E-Waste" Market and Van Ness, part of the Department of Space and Land Reclamation weekend of events.

June 1999
"Wall Street West is All Tied Up!" Montgomery between California and Pine, SF

August 1994
"Monument to Obsolete Technology & Useless Skills" South Park, SF

February 1993
"The Door Is Always Open" Justin Herman Plaza, SF

May 1992
"Clipicide: The Death of a Time Thief" Victoria Theater, SF

September 1992-Present
Critical Mass monthly bike ride, co-founder, participant

STREET THEATER

November 2007
"Hunting the Now/Cazanda el momento"
with the CounterNarrative Society, a map and treasure hunt of Mission and Valencia Streets in San Francisco

March 2007
Bay Area Direct Action Secret Society (BADASS): Abu Ghraib demo

May/June 1999
Art & Revolution Convergence: "May Day Pageant"

August 1998
Shaking San Francisco "ATM Theater"

May 1998
Shaking San Francisco: "The Rememberator"

1980-81
Union of Concerned Commies: "No Nukes is Not Enough!"

DOCUMENTARY VIDEO

1999
We Aren’t Blocking Traffic, We ARE Traffic!: an hour long documentary on Critical Mass, its origins, philosophy, expansion around the world, the 1997 police riot, and more. Featured subject of video, as well as consultant, contributor of footage and still photography. (Produced and directed by Ted White)

1994
Noah's Ark: A Neozapatista Delirium: A half-hour visit to the National Democratic Convention held in rebel territory at Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Mexico during August '94, featuring excerpts from Subcomandante Marcos' keynote speech. (co-produced with Caitlin Manning) Noah’s Ark was installed as part of the Arts of Mexico exhibit at the San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 1995 and was broadcast on The Nineties television series. Google Video link.

1991
Brazilian Dreams: Visiting Points of Resistance
A 60-minute documentary about contemporary social movements in Brazil, as seen through the eyes of two American travelers. Winner, Best Documentary, Humboldt State Univ. Film & Video Festival, 1991. Screened at Montreal Women’s Film Festival 1991, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, KMPT (Oakland, California), KCSM (PBS San Mateo), The Nineties television series, and Free Speech TV. It was in educational distribution to Universities in the U.S and Mexico, and is currently being re-issued on DVD for our distributor, AKPress. (co-produced with Caitlin Manning)

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

June 2008
"The Battle for San Francisco: 1992-2008: From Critical Mass to Congestion Pricing"
Towards Carfree Cities Conference
Portland, OR

June 2008
"Take Back the Commons"
Design Action Forum, San Francisco

April 2008
Nowtopia Opening Party at CounterPULSE
podcast here

March 2008
InsideStoryTime, Catastrophe Fiction, Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco

Fall-Winter 2007-08
producer/host, Fall-Winter Talks series, CounterPULSE

October 2007
4th biannual "Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends" at CounterPULSE.

May 2007
"Backtracking 1994-85," Rigo23, a Forum on local history at the Luggage Store Gallery

April 2007
"Crisis of the California Commons" conference: The Right to the City: Urban Space as Commons

April 2007
"Writing the Bicycle: Rhetoric and Reseach on Two Wheels" creative writing class at Stanford University.

April 2007
3rd biannual "Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends" at CounterPULSE.

April 2007
American Association of Geographers Conference: "Revanchist San Francisco II"

March 2007
Anarchist Bookfair, "Nowtopia"

Spring 2007
producer/host, Spring Talks series, CounterPULSE

February, 2007
"Whatever Happened to the 8-Hour Day?" talk and multimedia presentation given for the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society

February, 2007
Remodeling Design Activism conference, UC Berkeley, speaking on Critical Mass

Fall-Winter 2006-07
producer/host, Fall-Winter Talks series, CounterPULSE

September 2006
"This Is Forever" series at Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC. Speaking on "Seeds of the New", forthcoming book.

July 2006
"The City That Might Have Been," panel discussion on the 1906 Burnham Plan for San Francisco, held at SPUR in San Francisco.

April 2006
The RADAR reading series: underground & emerging authors, SF Public Library

April, 2006
"Ruin, Rubble and Race: The San Francisco Earthquake and post-Katrina America, 1906 to 2006, One Hundred Years Later", Chinatown, SF

Spring 2006
producer/host, Spring Talks series, CounterPULSE

November 2005
Bay Area Coalition for our Reproductive Rights rally, San Francisco

August 2005
"Writers With Drinks" Make-out Room, San Francisco

March 2005
ATA/Other Cinema: "The New Revolt"

October 2003
Walk/Bike California 2003, "Whose Roads? Our Roads", Oakland CA

July 2003
"YLEM Forum: Art and Technology Bring History Alive"

October 2002
Break The Gridlock Conference, Chicago, Illinois "Dissolving Political Gridlock"

May 2002
Tentacle Session #33 Chris Carlsson "Riot to Bad Attitude, Revolutionary Tourism, Critical Mass, Dept. of Public Art and Hissstory"

April 2002
Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2002, San Francisco, panelist, "Grassroots Goes Global: Activism Online"

October 2001
Processed World's 20th Anniversary party, ATA "Other Cinema" San Francisco

January 2000
Economic Roundtable of San Francisco: "Class Politics in the Wake of Seattle"

April 1996
"Information, Expression, Institution: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction" panel discussion with Perry Hoberman, Marina McDougal and James Brook at Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, CA

February 1995
S. F. Exploratorium Multimedia Playground: "Luddism Revisited"

August 1994
S. F. Press Club Wildcat Words: Swing Shift: Tales of Temp, Part-time & Unemployment, "Wipe Away The Tiers!"

October 1993
UC Berkeley Impact of New Information Resources: Multimedia & Networks, " Shape of Truth to Come"

June 1993
Modern Times Wildcat Words: Altered States: Is Technology the Opiate of the Masses?, "Altered States"

May 1992
Eye Gallery: "Work Isn't Working"

March 1992
Int'l Clerical & Bankworkers Conference : "Problems Facing White-Collar Organizing"

October 1991
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA: "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"
Komotion International, San Francisco "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"

June 1990
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England: "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"

August 1986
Split Shift: New Work Writing Conf./ Vancouver, Canada "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"

BOOKSTORE APPEARANCES

Nowtopia

06/26/08 Spartacus Books, Vancouver, Canada
06/23/08 Left Bank Books, Seattle, WA
06/22/08 Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA
06/20/08 Last Word Books, Olympia, WA
06/16/08 Powells Books, Portland, OR
06/14/08 Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR
06/12/08 City Lights Books, San Francisco
06/05/08 AK Press Warehouse, Oakland, CA
05/29/08 Flexi Libreria, Rome, Italy
05/24/08 Torchiera Social Center, Milan, Italy
05/17/08 Lucy Parsons Center, Boston, MA
05/16/08 Symposium Books, Boston, MA
05/15/08 Food For Thought, Amherst, MA
05/14/08 Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC
05/12/08 VoxPop Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
05/09/08 Brecht Forum, NYC
05/07/08 Columbia University, Teachers College Symposium
05/04/08 Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia, PA
05/03/08 A-Space, Philadephia, PA
05/02/08 Red Emma's, Baltimore, MD
05/01/08 Brian McKenzie Infoshop, Wash. DC
04/30/08 Mudd Puddle Cafe, Frederick, MD
04/24/08 Modern Times Bookstore, SF

The Political Edge

10/28/04 City Lights Bookstore, SF
11/08/04 Black Oak Books, Berkeley
11/16/04 Modern Times Bookstore, SF
11/19/04 AK Press, Oakland
11/30/04 Bird & Beckett, SF
12/02/04 Books Inc., SF

After The Deluge

11/05/04 AK Press, Oakland
12/07/04 Modern Times Bookstore, SF
12/15/04 City Lights Bookstore, SF
03/23/05 SPUR Lunch Forum, SF
03/26/05 Anarchist Book Fair, SF
05/11/05 Thoreau Center, Presidio, SF
06/01/05 Potrero Branch Library, SF

Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration

05/18/05 Grizzly Peak Cyclist Club, Berkeley
07/24/03 Bluestockings Women's Bookstore, NYC
07/26/03 Clovis Press Books and Zines, Brooklyn NY
07/27/03 Wooden Shoe Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA
07/28/03 Black Planet Bookstore, Baltimore, MD
07/29/03 Vertigo Books, College Park, MD
??? social center, Washington DC
??? social center, Richmond, VA
10/08/02 Arise Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN
10/09/02 Rainbow Bookstore Co-op, Madison, WI
10/10/02 The Garage, Milwaukee, WI
10/11/02 Quimby's Books, Chicago, IL
10/14/02 Boxcar Books, Bloomington, IN
10/15/02 Little Art Theater, Yellow Springs, OH

SHAPING San Francisco appearances

04/19/08 Transit history bicycle tour
03/22/08 Dissent history bicycle tour
03/01/08 Ecological History bicycle tour
12/02/07 Labor History bicycle tour
11/03/07 Dissent history bicycle tour
10/13/07 Ecological History bicycle tour
09/23/07 Transit history bicycle tour
07/07/07 Labor History bicycle tour
04/15/07 Transit history bicycle tour
03/24/07 Ecological History bicycle tour
03/22/07 Studying the Contested City, San Francisco Art Institute
02/26/07 Media Art and Hidden Noise, San Francisco Art Institute
02/18/07 Dissent history bicycle tour
02/14/07 "Land Grabs" CounterPULSE Talk
02/13/07 San Francisco Museum & Historical Society: Labor talk
11/12/06 Dissent history bicycle tour
10/26/06 SPUR: Past and Future Ecology
07/20/06 Comm. Housing Organizing Project, Senator Hotel, S.F.
07/01/06 Labor history bicycle tour
05/21/06 Dissent history bicycle tour
04/23/06 Ecological History bicycle tour
04/07/06 "Teaching History" special interest group, American Educational Research Association
03/25/06 Transit history tour on bicycle
02/02/06 USF/John O'Connell Public Mural class
11/11/05 University High School assembly, San Francisco
07/30/05 Labor History tour on bicycle
07/28/05 Ecological history talk/Nature in the City Lunch Forum
06/04/05 Ecological History tour on bicycle
03/19/05 CCA: The Edited Landscape class
02/15/05 New College Media Studies class
02/14/05 UC Berkeley Graduate Journalism class
04/21/04 SF State Univ., Geography Class
02/15/04 New College: Activism and Social Change Seminar
10/18/03 Potrero Hill History Night
09/19/03 "The Edited Landscape" class CCAC, Potrero Hill tour
09/14/03 California Nurses Assn. labor history tour
07/12/03 Labor History Tour on bicycle, LaborFest
07/09/03 YLEM Forum: History Matters!
05/03/03 Labor History Tour on bicycle, SF Bike Coalition
02/13/03 Crissy Field Visitors Center
11/25/02 Community College Humanities Assn., SF
10/04/02 Autonomous Media Conference, Tucson, AZ
05/22/02 OECD Study Tour "Social Innovation & New Economy"
05/07/02 ILWU Shop Stewards Meeting, Local 10
04/27/02 Transit/Labor history tour on bicycle
03/15/02 Crissy Field Visitors Center
03/06/02 Kioskcom 2002, workshop, Orlando, Florida
12/08/01 LaborTech 2001, USF, panelist
11/13/00 San Francisco State University graduate seminar
11/10/00 San Francisco Art Institute class
10/21/00 Hotel W, San Francisco, Station RAI (Italy)
10/20/00 California College of Arts & Crafts class
10/15/00 Pacific Film Archive
08/06/00 Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, Milan, Italy
05/25/00 Randall Junior Museum
05/18/00 City College Labor Studies class
05/17/00 PlayTV.com
05/09/00 City College Multimedia Studies class
04/27/00 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
02/24/00 SPUR (SF Planning and Urban Research)
01/21/00 California Conservation Corps
12/07/99 Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco
09/15/99 Books, Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street
08/10/99 San Francisco Bicycle Coalition membership meeting
08/07/99 Transit/Labor history tour on bicycle for BikeSummer ‘99
07/12/99 Telegraph Hill Dwellers Assn. monthly membership mtng
06/24/99 Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco
06/24/99 California Historical Society, San Francisco
05/25/99 Books Inc., 2275 Market Street, San Francisco
04/30/99 Southwest Labor Studies Conference, Ramada Hotel, SF
03/27/99 Anarchist Book Fair
03/01/99 Washington High School, science classes
02/26/99 "Which Way America? Visions, Voices, Viewpoints" Calif. Council for the Social Studies annual conference, Sunnyvale
02/25/99 San Francisco State University, Art History
02/25/99 Trinity College History Class, San Francisco
02/15/99 121 Railton Road Community Center, London England
02/11/99 Lancaster University, Lancaster England, Centre for Study of Environmental Change
02/4-10/99 Liverpool, England
--John Moores University Learning Methods Unit
--Initiative Factory
--Northwest Labor Studies Association
--North Liverpool Computer Center

01/27/99 James Lick Middle School, 7th grade social studies
01/26/99 Potrero Hill Merchants and Boosters Association
11/7-8/98 SF Book Festival
10/29/98 Mills College, History and Fine Arts Depts. classes
10/22/98 City College of SF, Multimedia Class
10/04/98 Mill Valley Film Festival
09/23/98 Exploratorium, SF
09/17/98 Bay Area Video Coalition
09/12/98 Exploratorium, SF
08/27/98 Sociology Dept., "Mass Media" UCSC, Santa Cruz
08/06/98 GGNRA Staff Meeting, Presidio
08/05/98 Printer's Inc Bookstore, Palo Alto
7/30-8/2/98 Green & Gold: "Calif. Environments--
Memories and Visions" Conference, UC Santa Cruz
07/25/98 SF Bike Coalition Membership meeting
07/22/98 Golden Gate Nurses' Foundation
07/21/98 Japan-U.S. Community Education and Exchange
07/18/98 Meiklejohn Institute Conference "Building Democracy in the post Cold War era"
06/27/98 Presidio Visitors' Center
06/24/98 SF Main Library, Public Workshop
06/08/98 Women's Building History Committee
05/14/98 San Francisco Historical Society Awards Dinner (rec'd Award of Merit)
05/06/98 San Francisco State University: "Alternative Documentary" class
04/28/98 Cody's Books, Berkeley CA
04/18/98 Pacific Sociology Association Conference, Cathedral Hill Hotel, SF
04/14/98 San Francisco Bicycle Coalition membership meeting
4/01/98 San Francisco State University: "Teacher Credential in Elementary Education" class
03/29/98 Anarchist Book Fair
03/18/98 San Francisco State University: Social Work Department
03/17/98 City College of SF: Labor Studies Class
01/23/98 Modern Times Bookstore Book Party
01/22/98 Grand Rollout, San Francisco Public Library
12/07/97 Bay Area Labor Archives
11/27/97 Other Cinema, Artists Television Access
11/21/97 San Francisco State University: Multimedia Design
09/09/97 San Francisco Historical Society
07/11/97 Labor & Technology Conference, SF State University
04/06/97 "Building a Community of Resistance" Conference, SF
04/02/97 Anarchist Book Fair
03/13/97 Open Forum seminar
03/07/97 UC Berkeley, Information Sciences class
02/19/97 City College of San Francisco: Labor Studies class
02/15/97 Fillmore Multimedia Conference, African-American Historical and Cultural Society
01/16/97 Cybersalon, Berkeley, CA
10/23/96 San Francisco State University: Multimedia Design
10/05/96 Ecological Bicycle Tour of San Francisco waterfront
09/25/96 UC Berkeley: Geography Department "Tea"
03/31/96 National Alliance of Media Arts Centers conference, Berkeley
03/30/96 Anarchist Book Fair
03/17/96 Bay Area Labor Archives
02/13/96 UC Berkeley: San Francisco History class
06/95 W.R.I.T.E. ’95 (Writers Retreat on Interactive Technology and Equipment) Emily Carr Institute of Design, Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C.

Public Branch Libraries, San Francisco

11/18/98 Glen Park, 653 Chenery St
11/21/98 Potrero Hill, 1616 20th St
12/02/98 Presidio, 3150 Sacramento St
12/09/98 Bernal Heights, 500 Cortland Ave
12/15/98 North Beach, 2000 Mason St
01/09/99 Park, 1833 Page St
01/23/99 Ingleside, 387 Ashton Ave
04/03/99 Western Addition, 1550 Scott Street
05/15/99 Anza, 550 37th Ave.
06/10/99 Marina, 1890 Chestnut
11/02/99 Sunset, 1305 18th Avenue
12/01/99 Main Library, 2nd Edition Rollout II

MEDIA APPEARANCES

for Nowtopia

06/22/08 Mind Over Matters, KEXP-FM, Seattle, WA

06/20/08 No Boundaries on WBNW, Money Matters Network

06/04/08 Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, WBAI-FM, NYC

04/23/08 Against the Grain, KPFA-FM

04/18/08 PirateCatRadio.com with Diamond Dave Whittaker

03/28/08 KBOO-FM, Portland OR
"Positively Revolting" Radio

03/31/08 KALW-FM, City Visions, "Planning for Future Bicycling in San Francisco"

02/17/07 ChangeSurfer Radio
(Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies)

04/17/06 KPFA, "Ruin, Rubble and Race"

August 2005 podcast interview on Bikescape

May 2005 interview in San Francisco Bay Guardian

for The Political Edge and After The Deluge

02/17/07 ChangeSurfer Radio
01/24/05 KPOO
02/20/05 KPFA Sunday Salon
02/21/05 KVMR morning show
06/07/05 KFAI-FM (Minneapolis)

for Processed World/Bad Attitude

03/24/86 KUSF
07/15/90 WPFW-FM Washington D.C.
07/13/90 CBS News Nightwatch, Washington D.C.
09/02/90 WBCN Boston
09/03/90 WBOS Boston
10/08/90 KNBR
12/12/90 KPFA
06/92 Paper Tiger TV: "Finally Got the News: Let Them Eat Laptops"

for Anti-Economy League of San Francisco

05/10/90 Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
05/28/91 "Social Thought" KALW radio "Most of the Work We Do is Wasteful, Trivial & Irrelevant"

for Critical Mass

10/02/05 KALW-FM Public Transit Show
09/06/05 Bikescape Podcast
07/24/03 WBAI-FM "Between The Lines" w/ Doug Henwood
07/2003 CJSR FM "Rise Up: Radio Free Edmonton," Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
10/15/02 WYSO-FM, Yellow Springs, Ohio
09/26/02 KUSF-FM, Radio Segueway
09/23/02 WORT-FM, Madison, Wisconsin
08/11/2002 Il Manifesto, Milan, Italy
08/04/2002 RadioPopolare, Italy
06/2001 National Geographic, "Pulse of the Planet"
09/18/93 KALW
09/23/93 KUSF
08/93 CNN, KTVU-TV, KGO-TV

for Shaping San Francisco/Reclaiming San Francisco

01/15/98 KUSF-FM radio interview
04/09/98 KALW radio "Book Talk"
04/27/98 KPFA radio "Morning Show"
05/09/98 KQED Forum
06/18/98 KPFA Radio: Living Room, host Larry Bensky
10/08/98 KALW radio "Towards Useful Consciousness"
08/26/99 Play.com webTV with Alex Bennett
05/17/00 PlayTV.com web television
12/21/00 KPOO "Diamond Dave" on San Francisco

2006-2007 Talks at CounterPULSE, broadcast on KUSF-FM and archived at the Internet Archive.

WRITINGS

Acting Historically: Feeling Effective Over the Long Haul in "In The Middle of a Whirlwind", June 2008

"Effective Politics or Feeling Effective" on MetaMute.org, June 2007

"Outlaw Bicycling" in Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, January 2007

"City Living" S.F. Bay Guardian, July 26, 2006

"Of Buried Creeks and Thwarted Plans," SPUR newsletter, July 2006

Attitude Adjustor: My Blog, October 2004 to the present. (Renamed "The Nowtopian" in Dec. 2007)

"Building a Future in the Here and Now" Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #4, November 2005

"Beyond Organics: An interview with Traditional Medicinals' Josef Brinckman" in LiP magazine's online site.

"Jobs Don't Work!" in The Political Edge (2004: City Lights Foundation, San Francisco)

"Statement to NY Court on Critical Mass" October 2004

"Radical Politics: Assuming We Refuse, Let's Refuse to Assume" in
Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, edited by David Solnit (2004: City Lights Books, San Francisco)

"Cycling Under the Radar: Assertive Desertion" pdf
Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (2002: AK Press, Oakland)
Critical Mass: L'uso sovversivo della bicicletta (2003: Feltrinelli, Italy)

"Private Wealth or the Department of Common Wealth -- A Real Response to the Real Estate Crisis" (sfbg.com San Francisco Bay Guardian on-line edition, December 20, 2000.)

"Dancing in D.C.: A16 and Beyond"
Go Guerrilla magazine, Buffalo NY, Vol. 2, Winter 2000-2001

"Seeing the Elephant in Seattle"
Seattle in Perspective, Red & Black Notes pamphlet, Toronto, Canada March 2000

"The Progress Club: 1934 and Class Memory" (pdf)
Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (1998: City Lights Books, SF)

"The Shape of Truth To Come: New Media and Knowledge" Resisting the Virtual Life (1995: City Lights Books, SF)

"Warrior Girls" (poem)
Carbuncle 4 (1994: Thumbscrew Press, San Francisco)

"San Bruno Mountain; HCPs and Beyond" interview with Pete Holloran and David Schooley Terrain, October 1994

"Information Clerk"
Sabotage in the American Workplace (1992: Pressure Drop Press, SF)

"Mission Bay"
Stadtreisebuch: San Francisco (1992: VSA Verlag, Hamburg, Germany)

"Just the Facts, M'am"
Technoculture (1991: University of Minnesota Press)

"The Making of a Bad Attitude"
Writing magazine, Vancouver, Canada, August 1986, Issue 15: Work

"Steel: Can Rationalization Cure Old Age (Without Causing Depression)?"
Root and Branch 9 (1980: Cambridge, MA) (with Caitlin Manning)

Shaping San Francisco 1994-1999
WRITINGS ON SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY (over 300 different articles)

(see http://www.shapingsf.org for a glimpse of a small selection)

Critical Mass publications (over two dozen flyers, newspaper articles, selected titles listed below)

2006
"Why We Ride" and "Do's and Don't's" (February)

2005
"Critical Mass is Thirteen, The Culture War is Older (and far from over!)" in Faultlines, October 2005

1999
"Bicycling: A Serious Pleasure, a Partial Revolt" in Bikesummer ‘99

1998
"Whither Bicycling? Tepid Reform or Utopian Revolt? in Sixrag

1997
"The Hidden Class Politics of Bicycling: trains, bikes, cars, BART (!)" in the 5th anniversary paper

1995
"Bicycling Over the Rainbow: Redesigning Cities and Beyond"

1994
"Critical Massifesto"

1993
"Critical Mass from the Inside Out"

Photography

Anti-G8 protests in Rostock Germany on Indybay.org
June 2: Another World is Possible
June 3: Anti-G8 solidarity sit-in
June 3: Resistance is Fruitful!
June 4: The Right to Movement

and in the Brooklyn Rail

cover, The Political Edge (City Lights Foundation, San Francisco: 2004)

Critical Mass photography appearing in

Critical Mass: L'uso sovversivo della bicicletta
(Feltrinelli Editore Milano, Italy: 2003)

Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
(AK Press 2002)

City For Sale
(Berkeley: UC Press, 2001)

2000 Peace Calendar and postcards

Orion Afield (Vol. 4, No. 1, Autumn 2000)

Natural Health
magazine (Jan./Feb. 2000)

Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture
(San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 1998)
Sierra magazine (Sept./Oct. 1998)

Processed World magazine 1981-1994
LABOR JOURNALISM, SOCIAL ANALYSIS, EXPERIMENTAL FICTION, INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, SATIRICAL GRAPHICS

(see http://www.processedworld.com)

#2004-5, 11/04
"Burning Man: A D-I-Y Working Class World's Fair"

#2.001, 9/01
"Radical Politics: Assuming We Refuse, Let's Refuse to Assume"
Reviews: The Critical Study of Work (2001, Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia), Youth At Work (2001, Temple Univ. Press); Fast Food Nation (2001, Houghton Mifflin, NY)

#33 1/3, web only (1995, 2000):
"The Faceless Face of the New Mexican Revolution"

# 32, 1/94:
"The Shape of Truth To Come: New Media and Knowledge"
• Fiction: "Virtual Hell"

# 31, 8/93:
"Public Education: Remaking a Public"
• Reviews: Midnight Oil (Autonomedia: New York, 1992) and The London Hanged (Cambridge University Press: New York, 1992)

#30, 11/92:
Interview: "A Shit Raiser Speaks: Interview with Judi Bari"
"What Work Matters?"
• Review: American Dream video documentary

#29, 8/92:
• Interview: "Get the Message: Interview with Mercury Rising bike messengers"
• Review: Strange Weather (Verso: London 1991) and Questioning Technology (New Society Publishers: Philadelphia, 1991)

#28, 11/91:
• Interview: "Genetic Engineering Pioneer: Interview with Marco Schwarzstein"
• Review: The City, Not Long After (Bantam: New York, 1990)

#26/27 6/91:
• Interview: "Art and Chaos in Brazil: Interview with graffiti artist Ze Carratu"
• Fiction: "Aaah HIP Capitalists!"
• Reviews: City of Quartz (Verso: London/New York 1990), Gulf War pamphlets: When Crusaders and Assassins Unite, Let the People Beware (Boston: 1990) and All Quiet on the Eastern Front (Berkeley: 1990)

#25, 7/90:
"The First-Hand Look and other Perceptual Problems"

#22, 7/88:
"Dollars & Ecology: Different Shades of Green?"
• "Bicyclists! Support City of Panhandles Bike Plan"

#20, 9/87:
"The Health Epidemic"
• "Stress: A Social Dis-ease"

#19, 4/87:
• Interview: "Kaiser Don't Care! SEIU Neither!!: Interview w/2 rank-and-filers"

#17, 8/86:
"Making of a Bad Attitude: An Abridged History of My Wage-Slavery"
• Interview: "Flexing Muscles at Flax: Anatomy of Service Sector Organizing"
• Review: "Pursuit of Happiness" stage production

#16, 4/86:
• "Dagwood & Blondie in Space"

#14, 7/85:
• "Future? What Future?!?"

#13, 4/85:
• Reviews: Scenes from Corporate Life (Penguin: New York 1981); International Labor Reports, Across Frontiers, Index on Censorship

#12, 11/84:
• "We're No. 1!"

#11, 8/84:
"Drugs: A Corrosive Social Cement"

#9, 11/83:
"The Line You Have Reached Disconnect It!"
• "Against Fairness and Fares"

#8, 6/83:
• "Workers' Participation: New Carrot/Old Stick"

#6, 11/82:
"Roots of Disillusionment"

#5, 7/82:
• "Not Just Words: Disinformation!"

#4, 4/82:
"No Paid Officials"
• "SF Supes Bolster Sagging City Worker Unions"

#3, 12/81:
• Fiction: "Jack and the Beanstalk"

#2, 7/81:
"Rise of the 6-Month Worker"
"Raises, Rights, Respect Alienation"
"Post-mortem on Blue Shield Strike

#1, 4/81:
"Office Workers on Strike—San Francisco 1981"
• Fiction: "San Francisco 1987—Would You Believe It?"

EDUCATION

1975-76 Sonoma State University, Philosophy
1978-79 San Francisco State University, Spanish/Political Science
1993-94 San Francisco State University Downtown Extension

Cloverleaf Productions

Client List past and present (selected):

International Longshore and Warehouse Union

The Dispatcher

California Energy Circuit

Great Basin Publishing

Great Basin magazine
website: http://www.greatbasinweb.com

Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers

I Was Born a Black Woman
website for film documentary on Benedita da Silva

Ord Street Press

Rancho San Miguel: A San Francisco Neighborhood History

The Sixth Star: Images and Memorabilia of California Women's Political History 1868-1915

Lucky 130

Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association

The Semaphore

Haight Ashbury Literary Journal

Book designs for
• Nowtopia (AK Press)
• The Toughest Gang in Town
(Noir Publications)
• After The Deluge
(Full Enjoyment Books)
• The Political Edge
(City Lights Foundation)
• Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
(AK Press)
• Rancho San Miguel: A San Francisco Neighborhood History
(Ord Street Press)
• The Sixth Star: Images and Memorabilia of California Women's Political History 1868-1915
(Ord Street Press)
• Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers (Great Basin Publishing)
• Bike Traffic (Bicycle Community Project)
• Lucky 130 (Ord Street Press)
• A Pioneer Community of Faith (Old First Presbyterian, publisher)
• Reclaiming San Francisco (City Lights Books)
• Bad Attitude (Verso Books)
• Tamsen’s Notebooks Vol. I, II, III (Julie Cairol, publisher)

Chris Carlsson is also available on a freelance basis as an
editor, writer, indexer, and designer for web, multimedia, magazines and books.