This Week [w1] at Occupational Art School

Jeff Sugg at OASN1@Bat Haus on Wednesday, August 22, from 7-9pm. FREE. Click on the image to visit Jeff's website.

OAS seminars commence on Wednesday, August 22nd, from 7-9pm. Through the end of October, we will present a series of fun and compelling expositions that explore perception in time, of space, for being. Classes will be held on Wednesdays and Fridays, from 7-9pm. Additionally, OAS Node 1 will host two or three events per month, featuring performance and exhibition, the types of programming that bring the weekly courses to a visceral point of experience.

AWS Fabrication at OASN1@Bat Haus on Friday, August 24, from 7-9pm. Click on image to visit AWS Fabrication Tumblr.[OASN1@Bat Haus Gift Program]:

• FIRST CLASS IS FREE!
• Each student will be offered pay plans and options.
• Bat Haus members will receive 20% discounts for classes.
• Each class will be retailed at a $10 value.
• Package plans will be offered at a 20% discount.
• The undiscounted retail value of attending all classes (through the end of October) is $168.
• So, a free pass/full OAS package to attend all classes will be $135 and will allow the student to attend all OAS events for free, as an added bonus!
• Plus, any OAS student with a free pass & all Bat Haus members will receive a 20% discount on any item sold in any of our exhibits and performances! Wowsa! 
• And, to make it an even sweeter deal, we will post a list of barter items (using a variation of the OurGoods system of Have/Needs, and the system we tested for Ingrid Burrington's solo expo at SO@Hyperallergic) that student can exchange in lieu of cash!*

*Events will give us a chance to test other exchange models, including the shareware approach. Events pricing will vary, ranging from $5-10 or $20 retail value.

DisciplineAriel at OASN1@Bat Haus, Saturday, August 25, 7-9PM. Click image to visit the DisciplineAriel Tumblr.

[OASN1@Bat Haus Course Description][BETA/Draft 2.0]: 

We have given ourselves permissions to establish a neo-pedagogy. The protocols are emergent, inspired by Novads, rooted in the pre-figuration praxis of the Anarchives, in the spirit of Revolutionary Games. Our modus operandi is dimensional. The Occupational Art School Node 1 is an iteration of Vo-Tech. We are committed to discovering our calling(s), our vocation(s), and willing to delve into technology, as such, to implement vision now. OASN1 is residential and commercial, just like Starr Street, where our host is located in Bushwick. We are zoned as hybrid. The discovery of the formula for our educational and artistic discipline is a direct action as alchemy, an accident, like the invention of Holography. Our goal is to move from occupation to Stage 1 Civilization. OAS assumes sufficient power in the present, assumes we can simply access all we need in the existence in which we are currently situated. Our art is multidisciplinary. It is convergent and multivalent. The space we inhabit is in flux, and we are adapting to conditions as they are and as they evolve or progress. The world is our studio. The OAS student body is not pre-defined. It is self-selected, a phenomenon of free radicalism. The approach we encourage among you is scientific, of curiosity, of wonder. Illumination is a function of collective movement, in our case, a systematic swarming that generates a glow, a flow. Through this creation-dance in the commons, we find ourselves, each one of us, in possession of a gift and, for want of a better word, a "SOUL." In this immaterial nature, we work with materials, tangible, Real. Thus, Occupational Art School is practical. It is Boolean. It is AND/OR and/or not or NOT. We are, in short, dimensional. 

Is this enough? OAS suggests that we will find out, in Time. The Occupational Art School's luminous faculty and staff, all artists and practitioners, themselves, will engage in transmissions with the student body and with the world beyond our classroom walls, utilizing virtual media and actual (p2p, f2f), documented vocalic, aural interpretive exchange, the feedback loop,[+] as our universal transportation-vehicles. It is a question of temporary bands and bandwidth. OAS views this all-directional sensory scenario as a philosophic opportunity, during residency, to test the dynamics of the Media Equation and the Hermeneutic Circle (or spiral). FYI: Teachers are invited to switch and become students, from one class to the next, for instance, either online or in real life (IRL). Our methodology is DIY, together. Our suspicion, based on observation, is that our best students have already settled the argument once and for all, through [r]evolutionary means.

MTS: Talk about Hyperreal! [...]

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Photo by Paul McLean

OAS Node #1 @BAT HAUS: 8/17 Friday - Launch day, "Art Holography: Exploring New DimeNsionality" with Eric Leiser, 6-9 PM

Launch of Occupational Art School Node #1

Occupy with Art, Art for Humans and Bat Haus are pleased to present an evening with multimedia artist Eric Leiser. Eric's latest show "Hologalactic" at All Things Project at The People's Church of Greenwich Village was curated by Sam Kho and Susan Joyce (Fringe Exhibitions) and featured new holograms, sculptures, moving images and paintings. Next week the artist will be traveling to Japan to attend a screening of his work at the Hiroshima International Animation Film Festival.

Film still by Eric Leiser
Evening program:

• 6PM: Introduction to OAS Node #1 at Bat Haus, by co-organizer Paul McLean
• 7PM: Presentation by Eric Leiser: "Holography: Merging the Real and Virtual for the 21st Century"
• 8PM: Q&A + Mixer

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OwA @Activist Technology Demo Day [EYEBEAM] Tomorrow!

Occupy with Art will be participating in Activist Technology Demo Day, hosted by EYEBEAM, tomorow [Saturday, January 28 from 3-6PM]. Come down, get your Occupy activist geek on, and meet/swap ideas with our team and other similarly occupied peeps (like the Tech-op wizards of OWS). We'll be talking about the upcoming OwA projects like Wall Street to Main Street, Low Lives: Occupy, CO-OP/Occuburbs/-fest, the OWS Spatial Team residency at Hyperallergic, passing out the Yoko Ono/OWS Wish Tree for Zuccotti Park multiples, and swapping info on how OwA and Occupy artists around the globe are imagining new models for 99% economies, exhibitions, alliances, and more, and how today's latest technologies are enabling our efforts and the movement as a whole. Come & join us!

Here's the press release:

Activist Technology Demo Day
http://demo-day.org

Saturday, January 28 3-6pm

Urban Research Group 

Eyebeam Art + Technology Center

540 W 21st, New York, NY 

http://eyebeam.org

From Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, technology has played an important role in shaping contemporary resistance and the representation of these events in the media. What new tools of protest and occupation have emerged over the past year? How does their use help to shape tomorrow’s democracies? The Urban Research Group @ Eyebeam and The Public School New York  have invited activists, technologists, artists, designers, and community organizers who have a working prototype of an activist technology to occupy a worktable at Eyebeam and share their work with the public. Drawn from proposals submitted through an open call, we have selected a group of projects and communities that extend the creative use of technology and its social implications. Our interest is in creating a platform for encounter, conversation and collaboration. Visit http://demo-day.org/projects for participating project information.

This public event will culminate with a panel discussion at 5pm with special guest Stephen Duncombe, Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications of New York University and co-creator of the School for Creative Activism; Mary Mattingly, Eyebeam Fellow and the creator of  Waterpod; and moderated by Taeyoon Choi, Eyebeam Fellow and member of The Public School New York committee.

Evict Us, We Minify

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things in collaboration with the Occupy Boston Tiny Tent Task Force invites you to construct miniature tents and occupy. On Saturday, January 14th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, there will be a workshop at the Mobius Art Space to construct hundreds of these tiny nomadic structures. Following the event we will go seperate ways to place them throughout the city. Participants are encouraged to document their actions and share results on the Tiny Tents Task Force website.

Mobius Art Space is located at 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA.

Free materials, instruction, and hot beverages will be provided. Optionally, bring your own fabric, and/or defunct credit or debit cards to construct tiny tents out of. Bringing a camera for documentation purposes is highly suggested.

Please RSVP to forezt@gmail.com with the subject line "Mobius Tiny Tents RSVP."

Can't make it to the Mobius event? Visit the Tiny Tents Task Force website for information about other events and to download a PDF template for making tents anywhere a printer and adhesive are available.

The January 14th tiny tent-making workshop with The Institute for Infinitely Small Things will appear as part of the Mobius series "The Art of the UnGrand."

The Occupy Boston Tiny Tents Task Force is a project of the Creative Actions and Subversive Art (CASA) Working Group of Occupy Boston.

Storefront for Art and Architecture: Strategies for Public Occupation

5 Follow our other facades on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Vimeo.        JOIN US TODAY FOR  Strategies for Public Occupation DAY 5     Tuesday, December 20th, 12 PM - 6 PM: Mediums: Images, Newspapers, Blogs,...    Today the exhibition will showcase films, projections, posters and protester signs. A series of conversations and workshops will address different mediums and design strategies to exercise different acts of protest and communication. Films 12pm-3pm: Gearoid Dolan's 99% is a series of 4 black and white stop motion films on the ongoing Occupy Wall St. movement in NYC.    Guerrilla Media 3pm-5pm: Urban video projections activated by personal mobile messaging are able to construct urban pieces that bring individual voices into the collective. Ken Farmer will showcase a series of open software, platforms and strategies to act in the city through the use of light and the urban landscape.   Performance 12pm-6pm:  Signs by  Alexandra Lerman. Parade of Protests: Visitors will be able to participate in an individual performance by grasping some of the signs created by Alexandra Lerman and performing an individual action around the neighborhood.  Conversation 5pm-6pm: Keller Easterling and Benedict Clouette.    Check images, videos and documents of DAY 1, DAY2, DAY3 and DAY 4 at www.storefrontnews.org and follow us live at  http://www.ustream.tv/user/StorefrontArtArch     DAY 1 / OPENING MANIFESTOS  DAY 2 / URBAN ACTION / WHOWNSPACE DAY 4 / LAWS&MAPS THIS WEEK:    Wednesday, December 21st, 12 PM - 6 PM: Architecture Thursday, December 22nd, 12 PM - 6 PM: Occupy Presents   FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT 97 KENMARE STREET AND PARTICIPATE or visit www.storefrontnews.org ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Strategies for Public Occupation is an exhibition and a 7-day marathon of talks, workshops and events that bring together a creative force of experts, artists, architects and citizens at large to discuss the current state of affairs in relation to the Occupy movement.  The exhibition, understood as a space of confluence and flow is a space for gathering, conversations and informal discussions that is continuously broadcasted at http://www.ustream.tv/user/StorefrontArtArch.  Everyday, throughout the duration of the exhibition, the gallery displays different works in relation to the different themes of exploration, the conversations, performances and workshops.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General support for Storefront is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts through the Warhol Initiative; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; The Peter T. Joseph Foundation; by its Board of Directors, members and by individuals.    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Storefront Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design. Storefront for Art and Architecture's program of exhibitions, artists talks, film screenings, conferences and publications is intended to generate dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological and disciplinary boundaries. As a public forum for emerging voices, Storefront explores vital issues in art and architecture with the intent of increasing awareness of and interest in contemporary design.  More information at www.storefrontnews.org  Give someone a Storefront Membership Become a Fan of Storefront and follow us on Facebook    Storefront for Art and Architecture 97 Kenmare Street 10012 New York, NY Tel. 212.431.5795 Fax 212.431.5755 Google map



Occupy Wall Street Arts & Labor Teach-In with Andrew Hemingway, Gregory Sholette, and a special appearance from LOVE’s Purple Dinosaur December 4th, 1PM

Underground Theater, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement
 
The phenomenal growth of the Occupy movement in recent months has brought new momentum to longstanding discussions of the relationship between art, labor and capitalism. The teach-in will be a platform to discuss two important historical precedents to our current situation: artist-workers under the New Deal, the Federal Art Programs (1933-43), and the Art Workers Coalition (1969-1971). What are the connections, parallels, and differences between these three historical moments? As we organize in the present, what can we learn from the successes, failures, and unfinished projects of the past? In turn, how might contemporary developments help us to rethink established generational narratives?
 
In addition, we will be screening an action video from the feminist video collective LOVE (Lesbians Organized for Video Experience) featuring a big purple paper mache dinosaur that was wheeled into the streets and to the Museum of Natural History, in a protest demanding that feminists be hired, and that a non-patriarchal view of history be represented by the museum (1973).
 
This event is part of an ongoing series of educational initiatives and direct actions organized by the Occupy Wall Street Arts & Labor group.  
 

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