Mining Media

Occupied Wall Street Journal

“With its cheeky title, Occupied Wall Street Journal hopped off the printing press and into Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan roughly one month after the Occupy Wall Street [OWS] encampment popped up on September 17, 2011. During the months of October and November, Occupiers printed tens of thousands of copies to provide news about the encampment. While social and digital media helped Occupy Wall Street to capture the attention of the world, the Occupied Wall Street Journal added an essential element to the encampment’s democratic experiment: the press.”

-Julia Ott
From the Museum of the City of New York’s “Occupied Wall Street Journal” Object Essay
Monday, November 7, 2016

365 Days of Print Project

This 365 Days of Print project was launched in November, 2009 by curator Maya Joseph-Goteiner. In January 2011 the project was expanded out as an online residency for 10 artists at a time to engage critically in daily dialogue with both printed media and each other, with the expectation of creating a work in response to the news every day for a month. In July 2011 I started every morning by heading out to pick up a major daily and ended every day by posting an artwork to the blog made in response to its contents.

Selected Related Works

Archived July residency on the 365daysofprint.com site

WNYC Story on the project