Communications Working Group

Next Meeting: Sunday, April 13, 3pm at The Change You Want To See Gallery. 84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211.

The Where We Are Now Communications Working Group:

Some of us want to marry art, activism, and critical practices here in New York.
Some of us want pandemonium in the streets.
Some of us want to offer a way to frame and interpret collective art-activist gestures.
Some of us want a bird’s eye view of art and activism in New York City.
Some of us want to engage contemporary art and academic institutions in the service of change.
Some of us want to see New York City step into political discussion with all of the voices that we have at our disposal.
Some of us want art to inform and interrogate activist practices.
Some of us want technology to further art and activism and hurry things up.
Some of us want to broadcast diverse voices.

We want an infrastructure that allows us to deepen our understanding of existing resources, build new ones, collaborate, and impact New York now. And after!

Seeking graphic designers, photographers, videographers, wheatpasters, writers, theorists, producers, interpreters, promoters, and propagandists.

Goals and Implementation:

• Listservs and Email Blast. We established discussion and planning listservs for the Where We Are Now working groups, as well as an announcement-only email blast list for communications to anyone interested in the network.
• Website. We are building a new site that will allow individuals and institutions to list projects and events related to art and activism, thus servicing our goal of “locating art and politics in New York City”. The site will include a distributed events tool and an interactive map that pinpoints listed events. People are able to RSVP to events they are interested in, and event creators can send invitations. This tool will be used to facilitate the two Where We Are Now days of action (in the early summer and mid-Fall). It includes telephony reportage, where people at day of action events leave phone messages that automatically convert to digital audio files that are published to the site.
• Press and Publicity. We will draft framing, analysis, and an articulation of Where We Are Network projects, for the public and the press.
• Radio Broadcast and Online Audio Streaming. Free103Point9 will do live reportage of Where We Are Now events in the lead-up to the election.
• Printed Ephemera. Ephemera may consist of a small book, poster, map in conjunction with other Where We Are Now programs.

TO GET INVOLVED:
Send a blank email to wherewearenow-comms-subscribe@googlegroups.com to join the Communications Group listserv.