Projects tagged
Digital & Technology
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Shmoogle
Read more: ShmoogleShmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google’s results but in random order. In one click Shmoogle instantly neutralizes the PageRank hierarchy and the whole SEO industry induced by it. Missdata, questions the…
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Coursera
Read more: CourseraDaphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that partners with top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the top universities are educating millions…
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Anti Eviction Mapping Project
Read more: Anti Eviction Mapping ProjectThe project consists of a website for data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective formed to document and make visible the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents and to facilitate and organized collective resistance. The project studies the displacement of…
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Crafted in Istanbul
Read more: Crafted in IstanbulCraftsmanship in Istanbul is under the danger of extinction with all the knowledge accumulated with generations of masters and apprentices. After visiting some workshops in the city, craftsmen shared with the initiators how their condition and businesses have changed since…
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Autonomy Cube
Read more: Autonomy CubePursuing the possibility of emancipatory use of technology, Paglen, together with Jacob Appelbaum, developed Autonomy Cube (2014). Autonomy Cube is a sculpture and internet router designed to be housed in civic spaces. The sculpture is meant to be both “seen”…
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Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017
Read more: Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017Western Flag depicts the site of the ‘Lucas Gusher’ – the world’s first major oil find – in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation the center of which is marked…
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Luxury Ruins Tour Project
Read more: Luxury Ruins Tour ProjectThe environment is one political topic that has become more significant in countries all around the world. One current example of this can be seen in Madrid with the Madrid Central program, introduced in an effort to lower carbon emissions…
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Plastic Waste
Read more: Plastic WasteThe political artist I chose to investigate is Ruth Peche, a Spanish sculptor and photographer. Her themes tend to center around plastic waste and the impact it has on the environment, using this as a muse for describing the relationship…
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Xuexi Qiangguo
Read more: Xuexi QiangguoIf there’s one thing we know for certain about China in 2019, it’s that people there love their apps. They use WeChat to talk with friends; they spend hours battling virtual enemies on PUBG; they binge-watch short videos on Douyin.…
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Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]
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Read more: Tournons le dos ! / Turn our back ! [April 22, 2012 – April 23, 2017]In France, abstention, vote of protest, lassitude or violent reactions rise from all over the crisis of our “representative democracy ». What about thinking the other way round ? What if we reappropriate the iconography of the election? With Turn…