April 20, 2009

Deep Oakland Editions is pleased to announce the release of Adam Cornford's O Town 86-96: Documentary Poetry from the Social Wars.

January 6, 2008

Nao Nakazawa's video "Portraits of Oakland: Trinidad Ave" is now up on Deep Oakland, featuring music by Rob Woodcock & some text by me.

January 2, 2008

Nao Nakazawa, Dillon Westbrook & Charlie Grunke's study of Wattling Street is now up on Deep Oakland.

December 25, 2008

All of WORK are now up on Deep Oakland's Small Press Archive. 12 issues in as many months. It's been an interesting project & a good use of a long stapler.

I'd like to thank all of the contributors: Demoshtenes Agrafiotis, Stan Apps, Michael Basinski, Charles Bernstein, Jorge Boehringer, Lindsey Boldt, Brandon Brown, Thierry Brunet, David Buuck, CA Conrad, Paul Deppler, Lara Durback, Jacob Eichert, Mark Stephen Finein, Dan Fisher, Angela Genusa, Samantha Giles, Ariel Goldberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, Feneon Collective, Sean Hill, David Harrison Horton (yes, I'm thanking myself), Geof Huth, Eric King, Rodney Koeneke, Richard Kostelanetz, Erica Lewis, Chad Lietz, Liu Shasha, Dana Teen Lomax, Bill Luoma, Matthew Lusk, Catherine Meng, JD Mitchell-Lumsden, K. Silem Mohammad, William Moor, Jack Morgan, Rusty Morrison, Shin Yu Pai, Tony Perniciaro, Stephen Ratcliffe, Francis Raven, Jess Rowan, Linda Russo, John Sakkis, Angelo Sakkis, Jeffrey Schrader, Spencer Selby, Juliana Spahr, Erika Staiti, Chuck Stebelton, Brian Strang, Chris Stroffolino, Jeremy James Thompson, Rebecca van de Voort, Nico Vassilakis, Sara Wintz, and Stephanie Young.

December 3, 2008

Deep Oakland is happy to present Chad Lietz's "Canoizonata" EP.

October 16, 2008

DEEP OAKLAND CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deep Oakland (http://www.deepoakland.org/) is an ongoing collaborative website that presents archival and current materials about Oakland.

We are currently seeking proposals for intermedia projects to be presented online in 2009-10.

We will be offering small start up grants (no more than $250 each) for proposals that need funding for materials.

We will consider both new creative works and archival projects. We are especially interested in work that examines the social, cultural, economic, historical and political conditions into and out of which Oakland residents live, relate and make (make art, text, family, video, buildings, clothing, etc.) We are also interested in collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects.

Some examples of proposed projects and/or projects currently underway:

- Studio visits / interviews with local artists.
- Scene reports from performance sites (music, theater, reenactments, readings, etc.)
- A piece that focuses on sound recordings from farmer’s markets in several different Oakland neighborhoods.
- A photography series of Oakland taco trucks documenting the customers at these locations at particular times, such as noon and midnight.
- A photography series of houses and institutions meaningful in the history of the Hell’s Angels, and a photography series of houses and institutions meaningful in the history of the Black Panthers.
- Video works: an hour-long visual & sonic exploration of east bay tides/shoreline.
- Mass observation of a location or event in Oakland and Miami, FL, and/or another city.
- Short interviews with longtime Oakland residents and then presentations of an older photo from their personal album, along with a current photo of the same location.
- A collection of photographs, zines and other materials from private archives of materials around the Weather Underground.
- Walking tours.

We encourage those interested to take a look at the website. Proposals should include a short description of the project, budget and material needs if any, and some sort of work sample.

Please email proposals to deep.oakland@gmail.com. Consideration of proposals will begin on November 1 and continue until we run out of funds.

September 16, 2008

Deep Oakland Editions is proud to announce the release of Barbara Jane Reyes' West Oakland Sutra for the AK-47 Shooter at 3:00 AM and other Oakland poems.

May 1, 2008

Now up at Deep Oakland:

Dillon Westbrook talks with Bob Grenier
&
David Buuck, Ruts

January 28, 2008

Samantha Giles' A Force to Separate considers each person listed by officials as homicide victims in Oakland in 2006 in the order of the discovery of their death. The total number of homicide victims for that year was 148, the highest total in more than a decade.

Deep Oakland is pleased to announce that a selection of this ambitious work is now available for view here.

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Deep Oakland
www.deepoakland.org

Affiliated with neither the tourism nor better business bureaus, Deep Oakland seeks to create a compendium of inter-linked images, text and sound that represent the complications and vitality of Oakland’s current moment.

January 8, 2007

Simulpoem, a collaborative text edited by Dillon Westbrook and featuring the work of Chad Lietz, Chris Stroffolino, Dillon Westbrook, David Harrison Horton, J. D. Mitchell-Lumsden, Loretta Clodfelter and Lara Durback is now up at Deep Oakland.

July 27, 2007

New up at Deep Oakland:

Interview exceprts from jazz musician and Acme music store owner Jay Rose:
Excerpt 1 :Jay talks about his arrival in Oakland and the jazz scene he encountered.
Excerpt 2: Jay discusses Acme's beginning while working nearly full-time as a musician.

July 19, 2007

Up at Deep Oakland:

Rebekah Werth's Bison bison and Megafauna & Amazing Powers (with CD by Core Ogg and R. Werth)

July 10, 2007

Deep Oakland is proud to announce the release of Dennis Somera’s SpOAKlanD available for download here.

Dennis Somera uses text as “a seed for ideas needing manifestation in da world as performance through his body or better true collaboration with udders.” He has performed his spoken-word-play with a pinch/punch of performance art at Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area performance venues including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Pusod, SOMArts, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. He has been published in Tinfish, Chain and PomPom.

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Affiliated with neither the tourism nor better business bureaus, Deep Oakland seeks to create a compendium of inter-linked images, text and sound that represent the complications and vitality of Oakland’s current moment.This project is ongoing. As the website grows, we will continue to solicit and present archival and current materials from a diverse range of Oakland writers, artists, community leaders and organizations, materials that engage or investigate the city’s ecology, economics, politics, development, history and the arts.Our hope is that Deep Oakland will both serve as a location for conversation to begin, and will extend conversations already in progress, to the point of critical mass where the interconnectivity of the activities of these disparate activists, artists and writers becomes visible and begins to positively impact the Oakland community and the world at large.

www.deepoakland.org

June 11, 2007

Please forward to interested parties:

Deep Oakland Website Launch
Monday June 11, 2007

Oakland, CA — Cities are more than the people, buildings and geographical areas that define them. They are a nexus of connections creating active, vital communities. The size and shape of these connections may be invisible, even to the residents of a given city. And the location where one thing in the city connects to another thing is often on the move. Points of connectivity may be small, short-lived, visible only on a one-block radius. Connections mutate. Yet the way a city ‘looks’ from the outside (media) can remain proportionally static with the actual generation and re-generation of communities over time, the transit and intersections of people, water, money, memory, ballots, animals, concrete, water, labor, food and information.

Affiliated with neither the tourism nor better business bureaus, Deep Oakland seeks to create a compendium of inter-linked images, text and sound that represent the complications and vitality of Oakland’s current moment.

This project is ongoing. As the website grows, we will continue to solicit and present archival and current materials from a diverse range of Oakland writers, artists, community leaders and organizations, materials that engage or investigate the city’s ecology, economics, politics, development, history and the arts.

Our hope is that Deep Oakland will both serve as a location for conversation to begin, and will extend conversations already in progress, to the point of critical mass where the interconnectivity of the activities of these disparate activists, artists and writers becomes visible and begins to positively impact the Oakland community and the world at large.

Featured work:
David Buuck’s “B.A.R.G.E Reports”
Haleh Hatami’s Layer 3, Port
Brian Teare’s “On Refuge”
MacArthur Blvd Portrait Project
Oakland Living History Program
Rebekah Werth’s Megafauna & Amazing Powers

Call for submissions:

If you have an idea for a project, content or a link that you would like to see included on the Deep Oakland website, please send us a query by email: deep.oakland@gmail.com.

We are particularly looking for:

• Work that is directly concerned with Oakland or, if a creative piece, is produced by a member or members of the Oakland community
• Work that adds to a better understanding of Oakland and its diverse communities
• Work that analyzes the social, political, economic, historic, ecological, and/or creative aspects of Oakland
• Work that records individual and group efforts to create change in Oakland communities
• Work that responds to materials already posted on the website
• Work that addresses neighborhoods or localities that are currently under-represented on the Deep Oakland website

Deep Oakland is a project of A'A' Arts (501c3), sponsored and supported by Mills College and the James Irvine Foundation.