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The Great Game

Practitioner:
John Klima

Date:
Oct 16 2001

The Great Game is a Java applet consisting of a realtime 3d terrain map of the Afghanistan region, depicting munitions, aircraft, targets, and troop movements for each day of the conflict. The Artist culls by hand the daily data from…

Negrotown

Practitioner:
Key & Peele

Date:
Oct 16 2001

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA From Flavorwire: “Another world is possible!” — so goes the popular activist chant at rallies and marches. Yet one of the most difficult aspects of sustaining a grassroots political movement can be imagining that other world and…

Unforgotten Campaign

Practitioner:
Unforgotten Campaign

Date:
Oct 16 2001

Blair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and…

All of Us or None – Responses and Resistance to Militarism

Practitioner:
American Friends Service Committee

Date:
Oct 16 2001

A CALL TO ARTISTS: The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has created a new, nationally touring poster exhibit called All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism. The exhibit will launch in June and is already scheduled to…

Domestic Tension

Practitioner:
Wafaa Bilal

Date:
Oct 16 2001

Wafaa Bilal’s childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to…

Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route

Practitioner:
Adipat Virdi, Charlotte Thornton, Dominic Bailey, Eloise Dicker, Gerry Fletcher, Mamdouh Akbiek, Marcelo Zanni

Date:
Oct 16 2001

Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighboring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe…

Abou Naddara

Date:
Oct 16 2001

Abounaddara is a collective of self-taught and volunteer filmmakers involved in emergency cinema. Abou Naddara is the nickname for a man with glasses. It was chosen based on its use in Arab cities where ordinary people are identified by their…

Weapons Of Mass Instruction

Practitioner:
Raul Lemesoff

Date:
Oct 16 2001

If you’re a bibliophile you’ll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its…

In China, a Young Feminist Battles Sexual Violence Step by Step

Practitioner:
Xiao Meili

Date:
Oct 16 2001

A hundred days. That’s how long it took Xiao Meili to walk from Beijing, in the arid north, to the humid, central city of Changsha. Since September, the 24-year-old has been trekking south and west across the Chinese heartland, along…

Elena Fortún (1886-1952): Celia y la Revolución – Celia and the Revolution

Practitioner:
Elena Fortun

Date:
Oct 16 2001

Encarnación 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…