Projects tagged
Mixed Media
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This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute
Read more: This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute“Girl’s Day” in China was supposed to be a way for boys on college campuses to show the girls how much they care. This year it went too far. Have you heard about “Girl’s Day?” It’s a big holiday for…
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NYC Art Exhibit Responded to “2016 Presidential Election Charade”
Read more: NYC Art Exhibit Responded to “2016 Presidential Election Charade”#makeamericagreatagain is a group exhibition of diverse media that ran during February and coincided with the initial Democratic and Republican primaries. The exhibition’s title is culled verbatim from Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Appropriation does not stop there, however, for #makeamericagreatagain…
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Read more: Bread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems…
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Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
Read more: Baldur’s Gate: Siege of DragonspearOriginal Story: The GOG and Steam store pages for Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear are littered with negative reviews, with gamers trashing the game largely as a result of an encounter that takes place between the player and a transgender…
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Undertale
Read more: UndertaleUndertale is a critically acclaimed JRPG indie title that was recently released, and you can get it on the game’s official website or Steam. This EarthBound/Mother series-inspired game does a lot of interesting things with narrative, gameplay mechanics, playing with…
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Depression Quest
Read more: Depression QuestEarlier this month, an anonymous message was posted to the discussion-board Web site 4chan. In it, the author threatened to hurt the video-game developer Zoe Quinn: “Next time she shows up at a conference we … give her a crippling…
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Ben & Jerry give political art contraption to AVAM
Read more: Ben & Jerry give political art contraption to AVAMSusan Speirs fed four dollars into the Amend-o-matic Stamp Mobile. After spiraling up the “Tower of Corrupted Power,” gliding past a clanging gong and sliding down hairpin turns on a roller coaster-style track to a final stamping station, the bills…
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Read more: Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the ArtsOn Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a ‘disobedient exhibition’. Called ‘A History of BP in 10 Objects’, the exhibition featured artifacts submitted…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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Manual de micromilitancia
Read more: Manual de micromilitanciaLess than a month after Mauricio Macri’s inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri’s election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in…