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DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park Riots
Read more: DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park RiotsDocumentarian Clayton Patterson captured video of police brutality during the Tompkins Square Park riots in the summer of 1988. When District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ordered Patterson to hand over his camera and tapes as evidence, Patterson refused, citing distrust of…
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Cross-Border Communication
Read more: Cross-Border CommunicationFrom Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: Produced by the Windsor, Canada-based collective Broken City Lab—an artist-led interdisciplinary research group—Cross-Border Communication was a performative public art project that took place in November 2009 between the cities of Windsor and Detroit, which…
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ECO Fashionable Collectibles- Made From Recycled Plastic
Read more: ECO Fashionable Collectibles- Made From Recycled PlasticIn 2019, Adeyemi Emmanuel began collecting bits of discarded plastic and used them to make a backpack. Seeing a way to raise environmental awareness in fashion-conscious Nigeria, Emmanuel in November launched a line of bags, wallets and gift boxes made…
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Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the Revolution
Read more: Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the RevolutionEncarnación Aragoneses Urquijo (886-1952), commonly known by her literary pseudonym Elena Fortún, was a Spanish writer who focused in children and teenagers literature. She was born in Madrid, where she studied Philosophy and Humanities. In 1908 she married Eusebio de…
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FreeAJStaff
Read more: FreeAJStaffAll over the world, journalists and rights groups are protesting the detainment and muzzling of four Al Jazeera staff members in Egypt. Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and correspondent Peter Greste, were detained December 29. The trio, who are accused of…
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For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance Camera
Read more: For China’s Halloween of Discontent, He Went as a Surveillance CameraSeveral nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy. Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid…
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Spent: A Game about Surviving Poverty
Read more: Spent: A Game about Surviving PovertySpent is an online in-browser game designed by ad agency McKinney as part of a partnership with Urban Ministries of Durham, NC, calling attention to the problem of poverty and educate people about homelessness. In the game, players are challenged…
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Join The Pack
Read more: Join The PackGrey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the…
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Indian Act
Read more: Indian ActIndian Act speaks of the realities of colonization – the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with…
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Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)
Read more: Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)The ZAD (zone à défendre, or “zone to defend”) in Western France is 4000 acres of wetland, farmland and forest that was originally intended to be built into an airport in 1965 but is now an autonomous territory occupied by…
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World Without Oil
Read more: World Without OilWorld Without Oil (WWO) is an alternate reality game (ARG) created to call attention to, spark dialogue about, plan for and engineer solutions to a possible near-future global oil shortage, post peak oil. It was the creation of San Jose…
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Typing…SYRIA
Read more: Typing…SYRIA(SUBSCRIBE AT https://typingsyria.com/) Typing…SYRIA is a one month socio-artistic performance piece where any individual can subscribe to witness a WhatsApp conversation between two Syrian characters play out in real time. This performance piece addresses questions of voyeurism, the ethics of…