Projects tagged
Digital & Technology
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
Read more: In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum PlazaOn Tuesday evening, at the end of an action staged by Occupy Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the unveiling of the David H. Koch Plaza, three members of The Illuminator were arrested. Earlier in the evening,…
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The Illuminator Project
Read more: The Illuminator ProjectTypical mediums of street art include spray paint, stickers and stencils. But mobilized digital media projection has become the latest tool in some activist’s artilleries. Vanguards of this innovative technique include members of The Illuminator project. Created in March 2012,…
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Bill Cosby… Just Admit It
Read more: Bill Cosby… Just Admit ItActor and comedian Bill Cosby is a household name to the American public. But in the last year alone, Cosby’s name has been tarnished by decades of hidden scandal. Allegations against Cosby as a sexual predator have recently gained new…
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ButActually | The Hashtag Activist Dictionary
Read more: ButActually | The Hashtag Activist DictionaryButactually.com is a new kind of online dictionary created by a team of students at NYU Gallatin who seek to document, organize, and provide a platform for anyone to share new activist hashtags. Since 2009 hashtags have been used to…
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Art+Feminsim Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Read more: Art+Feminsim Wikipedia Edit-a-thonOn February 1st, 2014, approximately 600 participants, convened in 31 locations in six countries to edit Wikipedia articles on women and the arts. During this day, at least 101 new articles were created, and at least 90 articles improved. The…
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#YesAllWomen
Read more: #YesAllWomenIn May, the horrific mass shooting in Isla Vista, CA, triggered national conversations about violent misogyny. After some Twitter users began using the hashtag #NotAllMen to defensively derail the conversation, the hugely popular hashtag #YesAllWomen emerged, getting tweeted over 1…
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ALT/Space: Teaching Artists Stories from the Field
Read more: ALT/Space: Teaching Artists Stories from the FieldIn this space, Teaching Artist contributors from around the U.S. and the world bring you stories of their work at the crossroads of art and learning. The stories that our bloggers bring to ALT/space are born inside the practice of…
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ScareMail
Read more: ScareMailScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This…
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#BringBackOurGirls
Read more: #BringBackOurGirlsOn April 15 in northern Nigeria, 200 school girls aged 15-18 were kidnapped by an extremist Muslim group called Boko Haram, whose name in the Hausa language means “Western education is a sin.” In hopes of viral pressure on Nigerian…
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Real Cost of Prisons
Read more: Real Cost of PrisonsThe Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, begun in 2000.…