Portfolio Talks

On April 14th Rebar landed in Austin as part of Art City Austin, a half art festival half block party put on by Art Alliance Austin.  The festival marked Bubbleware’s first stateside deployment outside of San Francisco.  Art City Austin … →

Rebar’s Blaine Merker is a featured speaker at the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s next gallery talk, Green City “Mix Tape”, on April 5th at 6:30pm. (Rebar’s “Nomadic Grove” is part of the Do Not Destroy exhibition, and can be seen in … →

Rebar will appear with Off the Grid founder Matt Cohen for an informal discussion and presentation about public spacemaking Thursday, June 23, 6-8pm at DEGW.

Rebar’s Blaine Merker will be giving a talk at the Department of Landscape Architecture on Wednesday, April 6 at 12PM in the Atrium of Building 7, College of Environmental Design. If you’re in the LA area, drop by and say … →

If you are in San Francisco this weekend for the massive and extensive Noise Pop Festival, consider stopping by the Culture Club event on Saturday afternoon at Public Works. Rebar’s Matthew Passmore will lead a workshop on temporary urban transformations … →

Rebar has been invited to present at a conference in Denmark. “Contemporary Art, Play and Temporality” in Copenhagen. The conference is organised by landscape architect Bettina Lamm, University of Copenhagen department of Forest & Landscape in collaboration with curator Charlotte Bagger Brandt, … →

Rebar will be represented on a discussion panel at the Just Metropolis conference, 9:00AM-10:30AM, at the University of California Berkeley this Friday. There is a full slate of conference topics ranging from ecology to decoding military landscapes, so it should … →

Last fall a group of CCA architecture students, led by Landscape Architect David Fletcher and Rebar art and design studio shared a meal together at a local taco truck for a class assignment.  Our research seminar explored San Francisco’s food and wastesheds. Our … →

Rebar will be in Paris, France next week to take part in Smart City: New Urban Challenges, New Artistic Practices, an international conference and workshop. This year’s workshop theme is mobile cities, which the program describes: Mobile media, localisation media, new … →

We won’t actually be in Bilbao, but we will be streaming live from our studio to the conference over the internet. If you’re in Bilbao…or near our studio!…you can come check out the talk titled ‘Temporary Transformations and Tactical Urbanism’. Rebar’s … →