paperJAM has just spent a solid 2 weeks in residence back at The Art Students League (the place where paperJAM began!) We've been working long and hard on a new project, called Touch (Off the Grid) which is an extension on our guerilla style street installations from 2011.

We have been on a steep learning curve in regards to all thiings to do with electricity and circuits and reusable energy... we've been busy soldering and rewiring all of touchlights so that they contain LED light modules and can run off a series 12V batteries and solar panels - the lights previously required AA batteries which we discovered was grossly wasteful and environmentally irresponsible - so we feel this is a much cleaner and more sustainable solution.

We are excited to announce that Touch (Off the Grid) has been accepted into FIGMENT NYC 2012, which is a participatory non-commodity and community driven arts festival held on Governor's Island on June 9-10 this year. We are installing the piece inside a very cool treehouse designed and built on the island for the festival by Benjamin Jones and Sean P Krause. We are very excited about this!

We have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds to complete the project ready to install at FIGMENT and hopefully some extra funds to get me back to NYC for the insstallation process and the festival.

We invite you to be a part of this project - to pledge you support - visit our Kickstarter page.