The Occupy with Art blog provides updates on projects in progress, opinion articles about art-related issues and OWS, useful tools built by artists for the movement, new features on the website, and requests for assistance. To submit a post, contact us at occupationalartschool(at)gmail(dot)com .
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 05:15PM 
Photographer Paul Talbot contributed three galleries of amazing images to our Occupy Photos section:
Enjoy!
Occupy, Paul Talbot, photography in PHOTOS Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 03:55PM 
Thursday, December 15: 9AM LIVE & re-broadcast at 8PM
Turn on your TV for the latest Occupy News...
On the Community Channel:
Or watch online HERE.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, ows, television in OWS News Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 08:25AM 
Peter Whitehead's The Fall screens January 8
Occupy Cinema is pleased to announce it’s co-organizing OCCUPY WALL STREET AT AFA with Anthology Film Archives. January 7 and 8 Anthology’s screens will feature a number of films related to the International Occupy movement, including an evening duplicating the Ken Jacobs program Occupy Cinema presented in Zuccotti Park barely 24 hours before the NYPD cleared out the encampment. Later that night OC members will be in attendance to present Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One preceded by a selection of Occupy Wall Street footage we have curated. This includes documentation of our recent projections at Charging Bull and Brooklyn College Graduate Center classroom discussion.
A teaser of that footage is HERE along with Anthology’s full program notes. Look forward to seeing you at AFA!
OCCUPY CINEMA in CINEMA Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 07:19AM 
Arts & Culture is working to streamline the flow of data between the A&C network and the NYC General Assembly. Below is a link to the proposal which will be presented at today’s 6pm meeting @ 60 Wall St.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 10:19PM Our first swap will be a open themed five card swap.
DEADLINE FOR #1: December 31st,2011
For specifics on the card itself, research http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/
Send your 5 cards and a self addressed stamped envelope to:
Occupy ATCs
912 Cooper
Missoula, MT 59802
Please RSVP in the comments so I can get a idea how many to expect.
After they are received, I will post pictures with credits on this site for viewing.
Allow 2-3 weeks for swap and return.
Email questions to: brooklynfouse@gmail.com
artist trading cards, ows, projects in exchanges Monday, December 12, 2011 at 08:26PM Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections, featuring the editors and writers of the celebrated n+1, as well as some of the world’s leading radical thinkers, such as Slavoj Žižek, Angela Davis, and Rebecca Solnit.
The book conveys the intense excitement of those present at the birth of a counterculture, while providing the movement with a serious platform for debating goals, demands, and tactics. Articles address the history of the “horizontalist” structure at OWS; how to keep a live-in going when there is a giant mountain of laundry building up; how very rich the very rich have become; the messages and meaning of the “We are the 99%” tumblr website; occupations in Oakland, Boston, Atlanta, and elsewhere; what happens next; and much more.
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 02:00PM The 99% Bat Signal: A Cry from the Heart of the World
by Mark Read
Photos by Brandon Neubauer.
BR Ed.’s note: On November 17, a series of projections—including what has come to be known as the “99% Bat-Signal”—flickered on the Verizon Building in Downtown Manhattan (see the YouTube video, “#Occupy Bat-Signal for the 99%”). Tens of thousands of marchers witnessed and interacted with the projections, and many more have watched them online.
Click HERE to read the story at the Brooklyn Rail.
OCCUPY GO ROUND: The Dimensional Nature of the Movement
by [Occupennial co-organizer] Paul McLean
“BLOOMBERG, BEWARE. ZUCCOTTI PARK IS EVERYWHERE.”
—November 17 #OWS chant
Click HERE to read the story at the Brooklyn Rail.
99% Bat Signal, BBrooklyn Rail, Mark Read, Paul McLean in texts Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 11:40AM 
[As reported on Yvonne de la Vega's Occupy LA blog]:
Last night (December 8) at The Latino Museum in downtown Los Angeles the exhibition of art from the Occupy Los Angeles camp was definitely a night of unique sorts. There was the art itself, which spoke of many different concerns, from"stop the war" to depictions of Anonymous (the infamous hacker group and Occupy ally), to paintings of Gandhi, who has been an inspiration to occupiers for his peaceful protest(s).
The event was packed with art-goers and the usual spies among us, as this was indeed an Occupy Los Angeles event. Just one day before, a group of 8 artist/occupiers were arrested by the LAPD when leaving the museum for crimes still unclear (they were walking with their artwork after having just left the museum). The charges are reported to be at a felony level.
For those of you who were not able to attend the opening of the OLA Art display, the exhibit will continue through to January. free to the public
For more info, click HERE.
Latino Museum, OCCUPY LA in exhibition Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 11:26AM From the Occupy Ft. Myers Infodesk:
Could you please help spread the word about this Art Installation / Project. We would love to have submissions from around the world. Here is the information and details of this wonderful artists vision...
What is Occupy Your Opinion?
Occupy Your Opinion is an interactive art installation that depicts methods of communication through collaged materials within the context of the Occupy Wall Street Movement.
You can join the discussion by posting your convictions (What do You Occupy For? What in Your Opinion has Occupy Wall Street been able to accomplish? What do You Hope Occupy Can Do?) along with an outline of your prostrate personage on this blog:
http://occupyyouropinion.tumblr.com/
Do this and I, artist at large Mandalin Paul, will make a white cardboard cutout in your shape, cover it with your words and lay it shoulder to shoulder on the grounds of the Sidney & Burne Davis Art Center in January so the public will be faced with a physical decision to mirror the subconscious choices they make daily in context of the OCCUPY Wall Street Movement. Will you walk over the views of your countrymen and pretend they don’t exist, carefully weave between and pause to reflect on their meanings, or will you Occupy Your Opinion and join the global discussion?
We the People are an Installation of collaged intentions,
Diverse origins with a unified direction
To stand present and accounted for
When you believe in something more
What do You OCCUPY for?
Mandalin Paul can be found on Facebook under the same name and has been a wonderful contributor here in Occupy Fort Myers. Thank you in advance for your time and efforts to pass this along!
Best,
Matthew and your brothers and sisters in Fort Myers
Occupy Ft. Myers, Occupy your Opinion in interventions Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 10:11AM 
Visiting in New York before the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests began, I biked by the site in the morning and was amazed at the extraordinary police presence for what I assumed would be a small demonstration. Now I see the cops were right. Like small boys whose defensiveness is in proportion to their guilt, they knew what was up. The encampment developed beautifully, roiled by traditional protest marches which set off chanting slogans – but even these worked in well as the marchers returning were greeted with cries of “Welcome home!” The form of OWS developed like the encampments of the 15 May movement (15M) I'd seen in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid – with designated areas to handle all the various necessities, as in a social center. The massive general assemblies of the 15M ran smoothly. All this I assumed was the outcome of decades of experience with big-building occupations by many activists in 15M.
What precisely the 15M owes to the squatting movement is a question which will be addressed by Miguel Martínez at the early December meeting of the SQEK in Amsterdam. But the question of what the Occupy movement owes to squatters is only one of many as the U.S. movement is historicized. The Smithsonian and New-York Historical Society are already scrambling together collections of OWS artifacts. Are other cities' historical societies doing the same? On my travels I saw Occupy encampments in the downtowns of Chicago and Minneapolis this fall, and some time spent on the web can turn up the online evidence of the dozens more around the USA. These are all significant local events in a movement writers for “Dissent” have compared to the populist risings of the 1930s.
Since my return to Madrid, I've been following the U.S. on the web, just as I did with the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt. That was easily the most exciting webcast of 2011. The international character of the Occupy movement, like the anti-WTO organizing of the '90s and '00s, follows the dust storms of international capital. While the entire scope of this global revolutionary period is too much to wrap one's head around, a September collection of “journalisms” on the 16 Beaver Group website begins to try, comparing U.S., Greece, and Egypt protests and their processes. The U.S. correspondent writes that, like me, “I have to follow from home via this Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/OccupyWallStNYC.” The Twitter feed is tactical, but it also turns up all sorts of great stuff that's been written about the movement, like the Lowndes and Warren text cited above. S/he also watches the OWS live on http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution, and recommends the live feed of the assembly process.
As web television, the national OWS so far has been a bit of a bore, or to be fair, widely dispersed in eventless streams and various shorts. There is no CNN for this revolution. Still, I liked the Ed David short film “Where Do We Go from Here?”, posted at http://occupywallst.org/ for the one-month anniversary of the NYC occupation. In it, a young woman explains in rejoinder to the mainstream pundits' complaint that OWS has no program, “I have no idea – and that's what's really exciting, not knowing what's going to happen.”
So far as analysis goes, Marxists are weighing in heavily on this movement. After a visit to Occupy London, “Lenin” (Richard Seymour, in the blog “Lenin's Tomb”) points out the “political indeterminacy of the movement thus far,” but concludes that, given their so-far enunciated principles, that “it's a reformism radicalising in the direction of an anti-systemic stance.” For him, “This isn't a revolutionary situation, but merely a punctuating moment in the temporal flow of class struggle.” The identification with Egypt, which Seymour says has been mocked in the English press, emphasizes the internationalism of the movement, and, like OWS, “it identifies the political class rule of the 1% as the key problem; the colonization of the representative state by big capital.”
Alan Moore, blog, occupations, properties in texts Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 07:00AM 
Pssst…Can we talk about money? I keep on getting press releases from Phillips de Pury about all the wonderful things they’ve sold, the auction records they’ve broken – Richard Prince’s “Cowboys and Girlfriends” portfolio fetching $146,500; Andy Warhol’s “Grapes” topping $104,500 – and the next pot of gold waiting in the auction markets in New York and London. And if it’s not from an auction house, the emails chime in from the art fairs in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Geneva or galleries in India, Hong Kong or some new white cube that just opened here in Paris.
Meanwhile Europe is flailing and talk of a euro collapse is now a bit of a broken record. The financial markets are whipsawed daily while the art market, on the eve of Art Basel Miami , steps around the see-saw and the swings and heads for the candy store where everything is shiny and new and all dressed up for the big lick.
But there’s a disconnect going on – and there has been for quite a while. Anyone who seriously makes art has always felt the tug of war between what goes on in the studio and what goes on in the galleries. Work with paint, canvas, paper, wood, or video, and what you take in annually from these aesthetic investigations compared to what the blue chip artists pull in is undoubtedly a pittance. Yet the art world ticks on. Yes, we understand it’s all supply and demand, but there’s also hype and myth and probably price rigging. Recently a New York art dealer came to Paris and told me that he’s really only interested in working with artists whose works sell for at least $5000.
Clearly no parent in his or her right mind would encourage his or her art school child to attempt to earn a living as an actual artist. Better to become a baseball player; at least the odds seem better. (For the record there are fewer than 750 professional Major League baseball players and practically every boy and many girls entertain the fantasy of playing shortstop for the Yankees, or even the Phillies). Most artists are in the 99.9 percent category.
Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 10:34PM 
The Occupied Wall Street Journal, an OWS affinity group, is one of many media projects participating in the occupy movement. (See below for a list of other occupy-inspired publications, here and abroad.)
OCCUPY-INSPIRED PUBLICATIONS
The Boston Occupier
The Occupy Harvard Crimson
The Occupied Times of London
Occupied Los Angeles Times
The Occupied Washington Post
Occupy Media, occupied wall street journal in owsj Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 10:09PM Help our puppeteers meet their fundraising goal of $999! They're almost there, with only a couple of days left in the campaign!
Click HERE to go to the Kickstarter page... for Occupy the Holidays!
Kickstarter, Puppets, occupy wall street in fundraising, puppets Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 01:16AM 
Click the image to go to the Occupennial free downloads area.
POSTERS, Paul McLean, free download, occuganda in posters Friday, December 9, 2011 at 06:57PM 
©David Stam, OWS Photo [Halloween Parade]
Click the image to visit the OWS Photo archive at Flickr. You'll find many great photos/photosets/collections there documenting many of the amazing OWS happenings and people that have made this movement move and moving.
occupy wall street, photography in PHOTOS Friday, December 9, 2011 at 11:42AM At 12am, OWS staged a peaceful protest in the ultimate irony, occupying fake Zuccotti Park set in Foley Square for early am shoot of Law & Order SVU. It was a replica tent city with the same signs "We are the 99%", a library and kitchen like the original demolished by Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD.
Photo by Antonio Serna (A&C Syndicate)
From the OccupyWallSt.org website (live late-nite updates, as events unfolded):
- 1:36: Cops breaking down mockupied Wall Street. NBC's speech rights clearly infringed.
- 1:25: NYPD occupying fake Liberty Square, fake demands unclear.
- 1:03: GA in progress. More mockupiers needed at Foley Square!
- 12:52: cops moving in
- 12:47: unconfirmed reports that "Law & Order's" permit has been revoked. What's a permit?
- 12:40: police threaten to arrest mockupiers after 1AM: "if you do not leave, you will be arrested."
- 12:19: GA in 20 minutes
OWS TV, interventions, police in OWS & TV Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:56AM There have been so many videos about OWS that’s just cops beating up protesters, it’s depressing. More so is the fact that they just don’t capture the spirit of what we are about at OWS! We are about SOOOOO much more than getting attacked and pepper sprayed! Duh! And there is also such a spirit of hope and having fun here at OWS that I just had to make something…. so here it is:
http://www.leiamondragon.com/activism.html
Please let me know what you think! I want to make more videos for the revolution so feedback is really helpful!
In Solidarity,
Leia MonDragon
occupy wall street, video in video Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:44AM 
On Sunday, December 11th we're throwing a benefit concert featuring Dangerous Muse & Eva and Her Virgins. The event will also feature two floors of art, DJs, and burlesque performances in a 700+ person venue. We invite all to join us in this night of fun & celebration to benefit the Occupy Movement!
*** Please RSVP on the Facebook Event ***
Sunday, December 11th – 7:30 p.m. until 2:00 a.m.
Sullivan Hall (Map)
214 Sullivan St.
New York, NY 10012
Tickets will cost $15 at the door. Proceeds will go directly to supporting the Occupy Movement. Tickets will also be available online shortly.
OccuParty, benefit, music, occupy wall street in fundraising, graphics, music 
