Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Procedure Room
Read more: Procedure RoomThe project (created in 2009-2010) consists of painted plats and posters depicted with drawings of police torture scenes. Images also include snippets of email exchanges. The plates have been exhibited in numerous galleries in Ukraine, and posters were hung in…
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Ausencias
Read more: Ausencias“On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition “Ausencias” (Absences). Born in 1964…
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ARMS DEALERS ON TRIAL
Read more: ARMS DEALERS ON TRIALA group of women arrested at the DSEI arms fair in 2013 have begun private prosecution proceedings against arms companies who exhibited illegal weapons at the fair. French company Magforce International and Chinese company Tianjin MyWay International Trading will be…
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Real Pictures
Read more: Real PicturesText taken from website: Alfredo Jaar seizes the challenge of making art out of information most people would rather avoid: the plight of refugees, genocide, ethnic and political violence. Rather than offering information in an expected or familiar form, Jaar…
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Peacmaker
Read more: PeacmakerThe following description is taken from Wikipedia.com: PeaceMaker is a video game developed by ImpactGames, and published in February 2007 for Windows and Mac OS. It is a government simulation game which simulates the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Labelled as a serious…
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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
Read more: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLSBoth the Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, have been photographed holding signs with this hashtag in support of the still missing, kidnapped Nigerian girls. “The…
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dronestream
Read more: dronestreamJosh Begley, a Data Artist and NYU Student, took publicly available information on recorded drone strikes and designed an interface for people to connect and sympathize with the reality of U.S. drone attacks. What started out as a political performance…
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The Drone Project – A Participatory Memorial
Read more: The Drone Project – A Participatory MemorialMedia artist Joseph DeLappe announces the completion of “The Drone Project: A Participatory Memorial” on the campus of Fresno State University in California. DeLappe worked for 2+ weeks on campus with over 100 students, interns and local volunteers to construct…
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Clothesline Project
Read more: Clothesline Project“Stop hitting me,” “Please help,” and “Abuse is wrong” were just a few phrases painted and scribbled onto T-shirts by victims of sexual and domestic abuse to express how it felt to go through that pain. The shirts are part…
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THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEE
Read more: THE SLAVE SERIES: QUILTS BY GWENDOLYN A. MAGEEThe image is stark. And shocking. A black man, his ankles shackled, his head hanging away from the viewer, stands in relief on a field of white. Chains stretching to the image’s borders on the left and right pull his…