Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in Tunisia
Read more: eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in TunisiaLast week, Tunisia’s tallest minaret went under the brush of the country’s hottest muralist. On the Jara Mosque in his hometown of Gabes, 31-year-old eL Seed painted a verse from the Quran preaching tolerance, a message meant for Salafist Islamists…
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American Prison Perpestives
Read more: American Prison PerpestivesWith American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions. There are many insightful conclusions…
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Now Watch This
Read more: Now Watch ThisThe 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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Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia
Read more: Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbiaby Pete Brook High above the Arizona desert in 2010, after a day of photographing housing developments, Christoph Gielen looked down from the helicopter upon Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence. The hexagonal arrangement of the prison site, to him, replicated the…
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SUNO-ethical fashion
Read more: SUNO-ethical fashionSUNO is one of the few luxury fashion brands that has been born out of a social cause. Max Osterweis and designer Erin Beatty launched their first collection in the spring of 2009, ” after post-election violence threatened to damage…
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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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Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?
Read more: Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?In May of 2009 lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered in Guatemla City. A video was released of Rosenberg directed to the Guatemalan public. If you are watching this, he said, I have been murdered by the president Alvaro Colom. The…
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Trojan T-Shirts
Read more: Trojan T-ShirtsAn anti-Nazi organization called Exit-Deutschland targeted a right-wing Rock Festival in a city called Gera. They got in contact to the festival organizers by using a fictitious name, and they distributed 250 trojan t-shirts with a writing “Hardcore Rebels” during…
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Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma Avenue
Read more: Anibal Lopez– One Ton of Books Dumped on Reforma AvenueAníbal López, also known by his government identification number A-153167, is a pioneer of performance art in Central America. ArtBus describes his work as, “Generally aimed at immersing viewers into the region’s social and political tensions, his works combine the…
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System Azure
Read more: System AzureIn 2003 Amsterdam police headquarters decided their security cameras needed a little bling after Jill Magid approached them through her company System Azure Security Ornamentation. Originally turned down as an artist proposal, Magid founded her company as a possible means…