Projects tagged
Amplifies (issue or campaign)
Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign. Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.
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‘Speaking Pie to Power’
Read more: ‘Speaking Pie to Power’BBB are a network of militant bakers armed with pies that are ready to change the world. They stand for ecology, bioregionalism, human-scale economies, and proper gastronomics, and their method is inspired by Noël Godin, who has been pieing public…
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DIWO (DO-It-With-Others)
Read more: DIWO (DO-It-With-Others)DIWO (Do It With Others) is a distributed campaign for emancipatory, networked art practices instigated by arts and activist network Furtherfield in 2006. The term DIWO – Do It With Others was first defined in 2006 on Rosalind – Upstart…
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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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Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of Malaise
Read more: Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of MalaiseATHENS — The young man climbed a 30-foot scaffold on a building in central Athens and dipped a brush into a tray of gray paint. With rapid flicks of his wrist, he outlined a haunting image: a baby with two…
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Unland
Read more: UnlandDoris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony.…
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Bug Splat
Read more: Bug SplatA giant art installation targets predator drone operators In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed. To challenge…
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Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchool
Read more: Artistic Activism at the NYC iSchoolStudents at the NYC iSchool, a high school in Manhattan, worked for 9 weeks to create works of activist art with art teacher Gretel Smith. We were lucky enough to have Stephen Duncomb and Steve Lambert from the Center for…
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Spring has Sprung. One for One. Lets Have Some Fun.
Read more: Spring has Sprung. One for One. Lets Have Some Fun.Hello and thanks for viewing. This was a little installation that took place in the beauty of West Texas. The goal was to reorientate the site specific Prada Marfa into something more relevant, TOMS Marfa. Prada Marfa, being in the…
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Russell FourEagles – BORN to HEAL
Read more: Russell FourEagles – BORN to HEALBorn to Heal, a documentary exploring the life of Native American healer, Russell FourEagles, and a handful of the lives he has touched. Growing up in a tarpaper shack in the north woods, Russell FourEagles was born to be a…
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Google Bus
Read more: Google BusA group of protesters calling themselves the “Gmuni dancers” block a Google Bus from moving on 24th Street at Valencia Street on Tuesday April 1, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. In late 2013, San Francisco Bay Area activists with Heart…
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Silent Strikes in Venezuelan Universities
Read more: Silent Strikes in Venezuelan UniversitiesIn Venezuela, the far right opposition has protested against the leftist regime of Maduro. Violence has swept through the capital, Caracas, and other cities throughout the country. Meanwhile, the Western world has had its eye on Ukraine, and received relatively…
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The Inside Out Project
Read more: The Inside Out Project“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we’ll turn the world…INSIDE OUT.” – JR, TED2011 “On March 2, 2011, at the TED Conference in Long Beach,…