Projects tagged
Digital & Technology
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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photo
Read more: Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photoChinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek…
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Spec Ops: The Line
Read more: Spec Ops: The LineOften in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they…
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No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.
Read more: No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.Daniel Arzola, a digital artist and activist originally from Maracay, Venezuela, began his series, ‘No Soy Tu Chiste’ (‘I Am Not A Joke’) in 2013 intent on combating the stereotypes and cruelty so often facing LGBT identifiers; youth in particular.…
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The New York Times Special Edition
Read more: The New York Times Special EditionOn November twelfth, 2008, over 80,000 copies of a replica of the New York Times were distributed in several cities around the United States. The paper included 14 pages of “best case scenario” news set nine months in the future.…
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Operation Christmas
Read more: Operation ChristmasOperation Christmas was a campaign launched by the Colombian military during the Christmas season to encourage FARC guerrillas to demobilize.[1] The military selected nine 75-foot trees along paths the insurgents used and decorated them with Christmas lights and a message…
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Read more: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful. The vicious slaying of Mike Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police has once again…
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The Democracy Machine
Read more: The Democracy MachineThe Democracy Machine! is a performative sculpture that gives participants the opportunity to experience the thrill of democracy in action, in a competitive game that challenges people to work together toward understanding a better society. Using the spectacle and play…
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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Read more: With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold StatementIn her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes…
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The Police are Present
Read more: The Police are PresentIf you happened to be walking in the neighborhood of Madrid’s Congress of Deputies this month, you might have noticed a strange sight. Flanking the Marqués de Casa Riera stood 30 neatly parked cars equipped with flashing police lights. But…
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The technopolitical struggle for free culture
Read more: The technopolitical struggle for free cultureThe Spanish 15M/Indignados movement represents a citizen break-up with the current political system while proposing an alternative one, changing the prevailing participation patterns while transforming the cultural, social and political structures in the country. Nobody expected the Spanish r-Evolution and…