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Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City
Read more: Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City“The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places. The SCP was formed in New York City in November 1996 by…
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Transborder Immigrant Tool
Read more: Transborder Immigrant ToolThe Transborder Immigrant Tool is a ECD 2.0 (Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll, Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand) project designed to repurpose inexpensive used mobile phones that have GPS antennas (through the addition of proper software which the TB…
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‘Casseroles’
Read more: ‘Casseroles’‘Casseroles’protests, based on the tradition of ‘cazerolazo,’ consists of protesting by banging on pots and pans in the street. This took place in May of 2012 in Montreal and across Quebec, in response to the government’s proposed tuition increases and…
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León Ferrari: A Retrospective
Read more: León Ferrari: A RetrospectiveNormal 0 21 false false false ES-TRAD JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Tabla normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} The León Ferrari Issue (El caso…
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What Kind of Man are You?
Read more: What Kind of Man are You?In a dark nod to International Women’s Day, artist aleXsandro Palombo has turned to the world of cartoon characters to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence. His series, “No Violence Against Women,” transforms iconic animated women into victims…
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Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane Fonda
Read more: Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane FondaJudy Chicago, the pioneering feminist artist who made the iconic 1970s work The Dinner Party, has enjoyed a long and illustrious career rife with critical approval. Now, in anticipation of Earth Day 2020, Chicago is launching a new project called…
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Men in Grey
Read more: Men in GreyFrom Media Facades Festival website: MEN IN GREY A public wireless access point would be set up in the area of a media façade so that people can browse, chat and surf on their smartphones, laptops and netbooks. Men in…
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Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’
Read more: Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’ANKARA, Turkey — In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school.The scene and its themes of nudity and sexual depravity are at…
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Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt Officials
Read more: Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt OfficialsChinese Artist Zhang Bingjian has embarked on an artistic project to promote transparency in China and Chinese government. His motivation? Discovering the extent of the corruption going on in his country. Zhang told the Toronto Star: “The chief prosecutor announced…
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Suffrage Parade
Read more: Suffrage ParadeOn March 3, 1913, President-elect Woodrow Wilson arrived at Union Station in Washington, DC. It was the day before his inauguration, but the teeming mobs that typically appeared to greet a new president were nowhere to be found. Instead, the…
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School of Echoes
Read more: School of EchoesUltra-Red is a collective founded by two AIDS activists in 1994 to explore the intersection of the political and aesthetic through “militant sound investigations”. “While the image determines much of our understanding of activist art, Ultra-red turn the focus to…
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A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
Read more: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender“I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered,” says poet Lee Mokobe, a TED Fellow, in this gripping and poetic exploration of identity and transition. It’s a thoughtful reflection on bodies, and the meanings poured…