Projects tagged
Science & Technology
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Photoshopped Sculpture
Read more: Photoshopped Sculpture“The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men…
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Bit Rosie
Read more: Bit RosieBit Rosie showcases female music producers in high quality performance videos and short documentaries. Our videos and digital archive project with the New York University library document the work of women using music technology to make sounds across genres and…
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The Panama Papers
Read more: The Panama PapersA giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies. External sources: https://panamapapers.icij.org/
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Activists rallied at dozens of Apple Stores worldwide
Read more: Activists rallied at dozens of Apple Stores worldwideIf you are in favor of Apple’s staunch resistance to the government, you may be interested to join a rally on Tuesday, February 23 at 5:30pm local time at an Apple Store near you. Last Tuesday, Fight for the Future,…
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Wearable Shelter for Syrian Refugees
Read more: Wearable Shelter for Syrian RefugeesUK design students focusing on the use of design that moves beyond exclusivity, wealth, entitlement, and privilege, have created a coat that is also a shelter. The functional pocketed coat that converts into a tent and a sleeping bag, is…
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Play Safe
Read more: Play SafePlay Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted…
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Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Read more: Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main…
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100 ‘Radioactive Figures’ Haunt Hamburg Landscape
Read more: 100 ‘Radioactive Figures’ Haunt Hamburg LandscapeART COLLECTIVE LUZINTERRUPTUS has created an installation made up of 100 glowing “radioactive” figures for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg. The human-size figures appear to be wearing special white protective clothing and marching, heads down, across the landscape. The eerie…
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Smog Ring – Pollution Transformed into Art
Read more: Smog Ring – Pollution Transformed into Art“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of…
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Read more: Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacyIn the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…