••• issue #1 L 3 2 S'& I ~~1:!'""T"I- ' 12 ,&.. .,!. - .~ ,4. OCCUPYGEORGE.COM ::;rJ~~~~~TH~E~U~.S~· CoDISTRIBUrION fJF WIALTJI iipi!I~~iJI!!' OCCUPYGEORG! .COH L 3 2 8 7 """"'\-' 12 ,£.. -"--'''''Ii /71 Sublime t/(( ) Text the City -art proposal to increase communication in the public space. Machine x - by Sebastian Peschiera of SublimeMachine,com , The idea is that we can use technology to help create a sense of community and to spark conversations with strangers in the public space. How many times have you been to a park where people don't seem to talk to each other? Can technology help us break the ice? Text the City is a project where anyone can send a txt message to a public screen. You are asked for a username and for the text message. The message is screened for curse words (for the children's sake), The text is then displayed amongst hundred of other text messages placed there the same day. If the text message has a name of another user then that username is Martha says- Today is a great day to meet someone new highlighted, in order to make it easy for people to have a conversa­ Don't take the metro says - Line A and B are closed today tion on the screen. They can arrange to meet or just share ideas and Peter says- Hi N'Htll" I am sitting in the on the corner and opinions. bench and I would love to meet you Obama says- We should stop borrowing money from the banks!! Martha says- Hi P,-'tcr, is it ok if I come with a friend? Bin Laden says - (JIY,11U what do you propose we do? Peter says - Sure ~~lJrtILI , I am just sitting here reading. Text the city is a project that needs funding and or collaboration Contact - www.sublimemachine.com Hello, I'd like to submit this simple proposal for Soap Box Shelter. Derived from some ideas I have amently been at work on of "sodal SOJlpture", this proposal is a template for a dual-use structure that facilitates both temporary shelter and dvic engagement in the form of active public address (the colloquial meaning of the "soap box"). The color scheme can be altered considering dramJStances, and the flat surface of the shelter can also be used for graphic representations of free spee::fIc . Thank you, Tom McGlynn My website: tommcglynnart.com Quin Graddy Brand Your Bread! Your money no longer belongs to the federal government or federal reserve bank! It belongs to you! be(ause you earned it ! Write "Brand Your Bread" on all your (ash! Cross out the federal reserve note! Put your name down! "PASS· it on! SH ARE TH IS! Make the root of the problem a way of promoting the that it is a problem! No so(ial network (ould ever spread a message like money (an!!! The Occupennial Art Database _.... _- .. ART ACTIONS: IN PROGRESS ~~~~ PrOt;lf.. 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The group was formed in 2007 and has just begun to extend into the American market-essentially poised to become the NEXT BIG THING. Unfortunately, there is a darker side to the candy-coated exterior of K-Pop music. These girls are recruited and conditioned at a very young age, signing into contracts that border on slavery and often becoming sexual objects for record producers and label executives. There have been numerous cases of suicide in similar girl groups in recent years. Many of their record labels are subsidiaries of American owned corporations like Universal Music. The Girls' music and performances garner billions of dollars for the Korean­ American industry, while the Girls' themselves only see a fraction of that income. This proj ect will be a combination of interventionist, site specific drag performance, flash dance, and subsequent video piece. The artist wi ll cast and choreograph nine male dancers to spontaneously lip synch and dance to Girls' Generation's The Boys in several locations around San Francisco. Proposed spaces include: Embarcadero BART Station, Westfield Shopping Center, and Pier 39- key centers of commerce, tourism, and trade. The resulting work will take on issues of American fetishization by outside cultures, American encroachment on foreign enterprises, the fragility of young women in a predatory market, and the role of drag in calling attention to hetero-normative cultural dialogue through spectacle and humor. cilizen ist·I"1!l!t· ml!ssuQl!j ,,7Hu17 Htlip YlJllr Brafhtlr Cilizen ist'I"1!l!t' iirtj cilizEn [past·ISI"j 7;'1E FacEs Df cilizEn [st·iCI(GI·S j gliilaticundarSCDI"[email protected] Th is is my latest piece cal led "Citizen ". Citizen came about from me being tired of the Arizona Immigration issues. I thought about how Governements view non-military people as "Citizens", and so I thou ht Citizen waslis a cal l for All People. • How can I help? Let's work together. Hello, My name is Matt Kowal. I am a first year graduate student in the ART Department at the University of Delaware and am living here in Newark. I am looking to usc my talents to create work that is socially engaged and beneficial to my fellow community members. I'm really interested in how people come to engage with the community, find where help is needed, incite people to help, etc. What are the ways in which people contribute to community and activate public discourse and shared space? I'm also interested in the idea of a local value exchange or exchange that is not based on strict adherence to monetary transaction. This is my take on a social artistic practice. How can art mimic life and life mimic art? In return for helping, I only ask to have a conversation about and then maybe document (a few photos) the work. The conversation/documentation are meant to be really non-invasive and can happen during the course of doing the work/tasks/etc. I am not looking to volunteer for an organization as I would prefer to work directly with people and contribute on a more individual, social level. I offe/' my abilities to you, myfellow community . ~ ~ members,jree of any monetary e:rchange . :: . - -~ . Let's talk. What can I do for you? No task is too small, unique, seasonal or intensive. Some specific skill s I have are: vegetarian/vegan cooki ng and shopping shaking hands for fresh produce and listening digital technology including audio, video, assisting treasured senior citizens and computer based organizi ng and moving things helping in the garden/yard ... and so much more This is about working together. Contact me: Matt Kowal mkowal@udel. edu -or- mobile phone: 440.396.9223 Immutable Alignment is an invitation to establi sh a daily global affirmation of our relationship to each other and to the planet. Something as inarguable as the movement of the em1h can be used as a point of unity and awareness among large groups of people who might oth erw ise find it impossible to agree . Immutable Alignment is an extension of dailybell2008. which was the inaugural year of an ongoin g project and practice dedicated to th e observation of the sun every time it crosses the horizon and to spreading the awareness of that moment by ringing bells. The rotation of the earth pre se nts daily, uncond itional opportunities for all conscious people living in every situation or condition to stop what they are doing for a moment and to noti ce something absolute. This simple act of aware ness in thi s reli able moment conn ects us all - 100% of us regardless of all beli efs and persona l circumstances. Each sunri se or sunset offers the possibility of solidarity and conn ection th rough the observation of that moment and the awareness of the potential of shared experi ence. Immutable Alignment is a lso an invitation to join lon gstanding spiritual and scientifi c traditi ons and to in corporate the awareness and recognition of us as pa rt of a continuum , part of the natural world and not separate from it or each othe r. To participate. make a commitment to thi s practi ce. It can be personal , with fri end s, neighbors or whomever you are with at th e time. Share the experience through sil ent observation or the ringing of bell s. I like bell s because they make sound and because of thi s they can announce, mark and share an intention, a moment. I like the way sound rippl es and radiates and connects us physicall y through its vibration.