4 May
2018
4 May
'18
4:11 a.m.
Let's have a meetup to discuss visions, values, and available resources to
build out a community media lab in Omni's basement!
Tonight, the Omni consensed on Art Bison Design Coop's move to the basement
and transition to becoming a community screenprinting studio! Perhaps an
ABDC member could speak to what that might entail for the basement and what
would be needed wrt renovations/improvements?
Afterwards, we initiated a conversation about ongoing ideas over the past
many months to build out a truly inter-collective community media lab for
creating rad propaganda, zines, banners etc:
* Over the past 9 months, there have been many discussions about, and a
good deal of work put into, the basement area formerly
known as Material
Print Machine as a potential inter-collective media lab for printing,
copying, button-making, screenprinting, banner-making, zine-making,
newspapers etc. Interested folks who've discussed the idea and/or worked on
cleaning and clearing out that space include Jenny, Robb, Abe, Julian,
Needa Bee, Marcus, and others I'm probably forgetting right now.
** The structure that seems most fitting is that of a working group, open
to anyone to join and help steward and maintain the resources we already
have available. The idea would be to lock valuable materials / supplies in
a cabinet and host workshops, media-making sessions and offer access based
on sliding-scale donations to cover materials/supplies/maintenance costs.
** For more info on the resources we already have available as well as a
proposed layout, see:
https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Basement#Media_Lab
Continued discussion in the meeting notes at
https://pad.riseup.net/p/omninom ... maybe not mentioned: the lighting
ballasts need to be replaced. There are some interim lighting solution
tee'd up beneath the bench dat robb built.
*I'd like to propose an initial meetup of folks interested in working on
this project for the afternoon of Saturday, May 19th or, alternatively, the
Friday evening before it. Here is a Doodle for all y'all busy-ass folks:
https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a
<https://doodle.com/poll/ag7er35pqkac5b2a>*
An initial agenda draft lives here:
https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/omnimedialab - please add to it as you see
fit! and invite people whom you think may be interested...
<3
Jenny
Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen
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-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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--Dave Sim, "Cerebus the Aardvark"
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