What Is Psychedelic traces New York and Berlin-based artist Aura Rosenberg's (b. 1949) trajectory from early paintings to more recent works in photography, film, sculpture, and installation. Central to Rosenberg's practice are the ways images produce and reproduce notions of spectatorship, gender, family, history, and legacy—that is, the conditions of everyday life. For over five decades, her work has challenged how such vernacular images create seemingly naturalized meanings through which people understand themselves in the world. This book complements Rosenberg's joint exhibitions at the <a href="https://weissman.baruch.cuny.edu/mishkin-gallery/upcoming/" target="_blank">Mishkin Gallery</a> and <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/aura-rosenberg-what-is-psychedelic">Pioneer Works</a>, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman. It pairs full-color plates of the artist's work with essays by artists, historians, and curators that offer the first comprehensive overview of Rosenberg's oeuvre. 
What Is Psychedelic is edited by Alaina Claire Feldman featuring texts by Lena Dunham, Alaina Claire Feldman, Matt Keegan, Claire Koron Elat, Laura López Paniagua, Tim Martin, John Miller, Bob Nickas, Barbara Piwowarska, Lumi Tan, and  Alexandra Tell.

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Founded by board certified naturopathic doctor Maria Geyman, Masha Tea aims to create a fun, thoughtful, and sensual tea culture worldwide. Masha Tea considers tea as agriculture, makes thoughtful sourcing decisions, and prioritizes beauty.
Herb Chai Loose Leaf Tea
- Ingredients: Organic holy basil (tulsi), organic ginger, organic cinnamon, organic fennel
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July 16, 2019 marked the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch - the historic mission to the Moon where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of humankind to set foot on the Moon. Our Moon puzzle celebrates this momentous achievement and will challenge puzzle solvers everywhere.
This 1000 piece, 26.5" (67cm) circular puzzle features the near side of the Moon in incredible detail. The image, courtesy of NASA, is the clearest image of the Moon to date and shows even the tiniest of craters in stunning clarity.Although this puzzle is a challenge, being able to see all the details on the Moon's surface and having no two pieces exactly the same shape make this puzzle enjoyable and achievable.
To learn more about the 1969 lunar landing, you can read our article <a href="https://fourpointpuzzles.com/pages/article-lunar-landing" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="https://fourpointpuzzles.com/pages/article-lunar-landing">here</a>. 
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Designed in celebration of Scientific Controversies 23: James Webb Space Telescope. This 1x1¨ enamel pin shows the telescope in the shuttle state just strapped in the shuttle on its way to unfold into its grand state of magnanimous beauty.
Designed by resident alum Andrea Lauer at Risen Division Labs

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Designed by our friends at <a data-mce-fragment="1" href="https://www.supercluster.com/" data-mce-href="https://www.supercluster.com/">Supercluster</a> , these playing cards are your guide to a set of exoplanets found across space, time, and imagination. While face cards represent speculative planets, numbered cards are ordered according to ascending distance from earth. 
We hope you enjoy the ride.
Illustrations by Michael Auer and Michael Stone.
Special thanks to astrophysicist Natalie Batalha and cosmologist and Pioneer Works Director of Sciences Janna Levin.
 
 Exclusive release at the <a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets" target="_blank">Scientific Controversies</a><a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-exoplanets" target="_blank"> event on Exoplanets on November 7th at Pioneer Works</a>.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyZzvWyRpSA" target="_blank">Listen</a> to the first single “Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg” Featuring Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), &amp; Channy Leaneagh (Poliça).
<a href="https://lnk.to/swampdogg-memories" target="_blank">Listen</a> to the second single “Memories” feat. John Prine. 
To order all other editions and the digital album, please visit <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/sorry-you-couldnt-make-it" target="_blank">Joyful Noise Recordings</a>.
About the Record Jerry Williams’—aka Swamp Dogg—first love was country music, listening to it as a Navy family kid growing up in Portsmouth, Virginia. “My granddaddy, he just bought country records out the asshole,” Swamp remembers. “Every Friday when he came home from the Navy yard he’d stop off and get his records, like Mule Train by Frankie Laine, or Riders in the Sky by Vaughn Monroe.” His first time performing on stage, in fact, was a country song at a talent show when he was six years old: “I did Red Foley’s version of ‘Peace in the Valley.’”
While the 77 year-old Williams’ most enduring persona is the psychedelic soul superhero Swamp Dogg—a musical vigilante upholding truths both personal and political since 1970’s immortal album, Total Destruction To Your Mind—he will tell anybody who will listen that he’s considered himself country this entire time. “If you notice I use a lot of horns,” Swamp says. “But actually, if you listen to my records before I start stacking shit on it, I’m country. I sound country.”
Swamp began his professional singing career as Little Jerry Williams back in the ‘50s before working as an A&amp;R man for Atlantic Records in the late ‘60s. His biggest hit is actually a country song: 1970’s “Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got).” Written with his best friend Gary U.S. Bonds, the track is country in that woeful, underdog-baring-their-soul sort of way that for some reason only country songs really ever allow themselves to be. Freddie North covered it first and made it a Top 40 pop song, but Johnny Paycheck took it all the way to #2 on the country charts in 1971.
Following 2018’s critically acclaimed, Ryan Olson-produced <a href="https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/products/love-loss-and-auto-tune" target="_blank">Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune</a>—his first LP to debut on 11 Billboard charts (including at #7 on ‘Heatseekers’) and his first chart ink since his 1970 song “Mama’s Baby – Daddy’s Maybe”—Sorry You Couldn’t Make It allows Swamp to finally dive into the sound he grew up playing. With the support of Pioneer Works Press, they recorded the album at Nashville’s Sound Emporium with Olson as producer once again, and backed by a crack studio band led by Derick Lee, a keyboard virtuoso who worked as the musical director of BET’s Bobby Jones Gospel Show for nearly four decades. Nashville guitar firebrand Jim Oblon combusts his way through lead duties, while frequent collaborator Moogstar and special guests Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), John Prine, Jenny Lewis, Channy Leaneagh and Chris Beirden of Poliça, and Sam Amidon join the action throughout.
A band of 14 players, including Vernon, Lee, Beirden, and Moogstar, among others, provides the background for Swamp’s devastating new take on “Don’t Take Her (She’s All I Got).” Lead single “Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg” is one of Swamp’s most heartfelt songs to date and features Vernon on piano as well as backing vocals by Lewis and Leaneagh. He duets with country-folk legend Prine on two songs (“It’s the first time I seen John since the sixties!” laughs Swamp): the indelible, psychedelic ballad “Memories” and the reflective “Please Let Me Go Round Again.” Originally written and demoed in his forties, “Please Let Me Go Round Again” is a plea for one more chance at life, sung with acute emotional connection.
These are narratives about love, of missing the one you love, of compassion, family and friends, and even the kind of love that transcends death. “I was looking for a new way for Swamp Dogg to go,” he explains. “Apart from me singing and writing most of the songs, I didn’t participate—in other words, I told ‘em, ‘Don’t ask me, I wanna see what happens without my influence.’ It was hard for me to do, ego-wise.”
Sorry You Couldn’t Make It sees Swamp come full circle, and closes what has felt to him like unfinished business. “They didn’t have any blacks in country until Charlie Pride came along,” he says. “But in time, all things change and that’s what has happened to country music.” Surveying today’s Nashville reality, Swamp sees opportunity: artists as divergent as Darius Rucker and Lil Nas X are converging in a genre that he once worried might never give him his shot. “I’m anxious because it’s like I’ve taken all my money and put it on one horse,” he says. “But I believe in this horse.”
Sorry You Couldn’t Make It was made in collaboration with Joyful Noise Records.

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Designed by Artist Andrea Lauer, founder of Risen Division in celebration of<a href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-no-24-body-brain-and-consciousness" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="https://pioneerworks.org/programs/scientific-controversies-no-24-body-brain-and-consciousness"> Scientific Controversies: Brain, Body, &amp; Consciousness</a>. This patch illustrates some of the longstanding and often bewildering questions we grapple with to understand consciousness and the mystifying journey along the way. Where does consciousness come from? Why do “I” experience life? Is consciousness possible without this sense of self? Where does the mind's labyrinth begin and end?
 
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Hailu Mergia: Pioneer Works Swing (Live) beautifully captures the fiery show at Pioneer Works on July 1st, 2016. The concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA’s expert audio extraction collaborator Jessica Thompson. The performance clarifies what many people across the globe already know: in his fifth decade of music-making, Hailu Mergia continues to push the boundaries of his remarkable abilities.
 Brian Shimkovitz who runs the label <a href="https://awesometapes.com/">Awesome Tapes From Africa</a> came across Mergia’s music in a cassette shop in Ethiopia and worked with Mergia to reissue his classic recordings from the 70’s, renewing an interest in the Ethiopian pioneer, which led Mergia to perform with his band again. His comeback show was at Baby’s All Right in December 2013, which was highly successful and featured in the New York Times. Prior to this comeback, Hailu had been driving a cab in Washington, DC from the nineties until 2019. His re-emergence in the industry allowed him to perform again. Since then, Mergia and his band have performed all over the world, at prestigious venues such as Radio City Music Hall and the Montreal Jazz Festival, showcasing their unique blend of Ethiopian jazz.
Hailu Mergia: Pioneer Works Swing (Live) was made in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa

Hailu Mergia: Pioneer Works Swing (Live)

This publication is a coalition — it brings together experiences of combined action. With a focus on labor organizing within the arts and tech industries, In Poetic Coalition explores the potential of creating alternative networks of education and challenging the material conditions that prevent us from enacting new realities with dignity and security. When we defy existing models for institution-building, what possibilities for gathering can materialize and what kinds of learning and unlearning can we practice together? Released alongside Pioneer Works’ eighth Software for Artists Day and the School for Poetic Computation’s 10th anniversary in November 2023, we invited educators, labor organizers and artists exploring experimental learning initiatives to be in solidarity and conversation with each other. Through coalition, we can build the worlds that we know to be possible. 
 
About School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York founded in 2013. The school is cooperatively stewarded by teachers, participants, artists, and practitioners who are engaged in communities of practice spanning art, computation, poetry, critical theory, publishing, and community organizing. The school supports interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware, political education, and critical theory.
About Software for Artists Book series 
Driven by a desire to challenge existing frameworks and present creative alternatives, the Software for Artists Book series explores our complex and often slippery relationships with new technologies. Each book features the voices of critically engaged artists, researchers, writers, and organizers who are working at the forefront of the web, virtual embodiment, decentralized networks, AI, and beyond.

Software for Artists Book: In Poetic Coalition

This publication is a coalition — it brings together experiences of combined action. With a focus on labor organizing within the arts and tech industries, In Poetic Coalition explores the potential of creating alternative networks of education and challenging the material conditions that prevent us from enacting new realities with dignity and security. When we defy existing models for institution-building, what possibilities for gathering can materialize and what kinds of learning and unlearning can we practice together? Released alongside Pioneer Works’ eighth Software for Artists Day and the School for Poetic Computation’s 10th anniversary in November 2023, we invited educators, labor organizers and artists exploring experimental learning initiatives to be in solidarity and conversation with each other. Through coalition, we can build the worlds that we know to be possible. 
 
About School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York founded in 2013. The school is cooperatively stewarded by teachers, participants, artists, and practitioners who are engaged in communities of practice spanning art, computation, poetry, critical theory, publishing, and community organizing. The school supports interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware, political education, and critical theory.
About Software for Artists Book series 
Driven by a desire to challenge existing frameworks and present creative alternatives, the Software for Artists Book series explores our complex and often slippery relationships with new technologies. Each book features the voices of critically engaged artists, researchers, writers, and organizers who are working at the forefront of the web, virtual embodiment, decentralized networks, AI, and beyond.