The New Day New Standard
A public art project and nanny hotline:
646 699 3989
Artistic direction by Marisa Jahn
Call to hear the audio, or download from www.rev-it.org.
May 1, 2012 and ongoing
REV-
666 Broadway, Suite 500
New York, NY 10012
hello [at] rev-it.org
917 902 5396
www.rev-it.org
www.rev-it.org/projects/newday
New Day New Standard is a public art project and interactive hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, eldercaregivers, and their employers about the landmark Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, passed in New York State in November 2010.
Built on an open source framework, New Day New Standard is a hybrid application that combines regular touchtone phones, Internet-based telephony, and performance art to create an interactive Spanish/English know-your-rights audio campaign for domestic workers and their employers in New York State.
But this is no drab and dry reading of the law. When you call the New Day New Standard hotline number, you hear what sounds like a radio talk show, ‘hosted’ by Christine Lewis, a real nanny in New York whose charisma as a social justice organizer landed her a guest spot on The Colbert Report.
Equal parts advice and humor—think NPR’s Car Talk for nannies—the episodes cover topics ranging from minimum and overtime wages, vacation time, and paying your taxes, to modern day slavery and trafficking. Listeners can also get connected directly to different social services, such as legal support or community organizations working around a variety of needs. Listeners can also leave their ten-digit telephone number to receive SMS updates about nanny convos in their neighborhood!
Launched on the heels of Labor Day and just in time for Mother’s Day, New Day New Standard functions as a key media component of a New York City-wide campaign—starting in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in Spring 2012—that seeks to encourage domestic workers and their employers to comply with the law.
About the organization
REV- is a non-profit organization that furthers socially engaged art, design, and pedagogy. www.rev-it.org
New Day New Standard is produced in partnership with People’s Production House, the MIT Center for Civic Media, the Urban Justice Center, and Domestic Workers United.
Thank you
Artistic Direction: Marisa Jahn (REV-)
Voicing: Jen Cohn, Alexandra Garcia, Christine Lewis, Maria Mercedes Rosale
Music: Matthew Fowler (aka ‘Mumbles’)
Audio Editing: Abdulai Bah with Sylvia Guerrero and Anjum Asharia, People’s Production House
Support: Center for Civic Media at MIT, REV-, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and North Star Fund. In addition, this performance/variable media art work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by stimulus funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the Lambent Fund of Tides Foundation; and Jerome Foundation.