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Intrabody Wireless Network

Date:
Mar 13 2023

“Intrabody Wireless Network” is a show of eighteen drawings and collages by Dmitry Borshch, in which he shows the architecture of such networks, their components referred to as nanomachines (biological, physical, chemical sensors, routers, antennas, interface devices), options for communicating…

Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism

Practitioner:
DeVante Brooks, Mona Caron, Nancypili Hernandez, Olek

Date:
Mar 13 2023

In this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…

Cloud Studies

Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…

The Hell of Copper

Practitioner:
Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Artists Statement: Over the past few years Ghana has become one of the principal countries to receive electrical waste materials coming from Europe and the United States. In The Hell of Copper I wanted to be as precise as possible;…

Roots

Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei

Date:
Mar 13 2023

A major exhibition by Ai Weiwei this autumn features a new series of monumental sculptural works in iron, cast from giant tree roots sourced in Brazil during research and production for last year’s survey exhibition, ‘Raiz’, at the Oscar Niemeyer-designed…

Protesters with fake blood, baby dolls and shackles picket Supreme Court justice’s home

Practitioner:
Pro-Choice Activists

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Pro-choice activists protested outside Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home on Saturday ahead of the apex court’s decision on a landmark case constitutionally protecting a woman’s right to safe abortion. The activists, part of a group called Rise…

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced meaningful and restrained sculptural forms out of common materials. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consists of an ideal weight of 175 pounds of shiny, commercially distributed candy. The work’s physical form and scale change with each…

Food Inc.

Practitioner:
Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media, River Road Entertainment

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Food Inc. By Peter Travers EATING CAN BE one dangerous business. Don’t take another bite till you see Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary that is scarier than anything in the last five Saw horror shows. Decepticons have…

We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violence

Practitioner:
in partnership with Birkbeck, international and grassroots organisations and charities join forces with local artists and leading voices to address the global crisis of violence against women and sexual assault., University of London, will see national

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Gender equality charity Women of the World (WOW) is launching a one-day festival of activism that invites people from all generations, genders and backgrounds to take part in conversations around sexual violence. The festival, created in partnership with Birkbeck, University…

We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violence

Practitioner:
in partnership with Birkbeck, international and grassroots organisations and charities join forces with local artists and leading voices to address the global crisis of violence against women and sexual assault., University of London, will see national

Date:
Mar 13 2023

Gender equality charity Women of the World (WOW) is launching a one-day festival of activism that invites people from all generations, genders and backgrounds to take part in conversations around sexual violence. The festival, created in partnership with Birkbeck, University…