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Art
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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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My Model Body
Read more: My Model BodyThe humorously critical project offered people an opportunity to compare themselves to the supermodel silhouette: face to face in the imaginary impression of a mirror, or at real physical scale. The idea was born out of a serious concern with…
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Ostrich
Read more: OstrichThis interactive, site-specific project is a comment on how we – constantly attached to mobile devices – neglect to observe the environment around us. Like ostriches, we willingly trap our heads, minds, and imagination in a fantasy world that is…
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Freedom of Information
Read more: Freedom of InformationLocated within Boston’s historic (brick) core, and using the history of Boston as example, this kinetic, site-specific, public art installation is a humorous commentary on our use and trust of the internet for learning. The project makes tangible (physical), and…
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RAT-PAC
Read more: RAT-PACThe Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee is a Super PAC with the mission of challenging great Artists to create public works of political art meant to inform communities, start conversations and drive media coverage on progressive issues, and empowering…
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Christine Sun Kim
Read more: Christine Sun KimFor artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a “ghost.” The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed…
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Expectations
Read more: ExpectationsJorge Rodríguez-Gerarda is a cuban Artist that was born in 1966. One of his projects was naed Expectations in which he did with sand and grave a massive image of Barack Obama, as a way to reflect all what this…
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Garbage Collectors
Read more: Garbage CollectorsAfrika ARTS Kollective is a group of artists that decided to face Uganda’s demographic growth and the garbage problem of the capital, Kamala, with art. 30,000 tons of residues come out of this monthly and the Administration is being working…
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Typing…SYRIA
Read more: Typing…SYRIA(SUBSCRIBE AT http://typingsyria.com/) Typing…SYRIA is a one month socio-artistic performance piece where any individual can subscribe to witness a WhatsApp conversation between two Syrian characters play out in real time. This performance piece addresses questions of voyeurism, the ethics of…
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Art for Social Change Project (ASC!)
Read more: Art for Social Change Project (ASC!)What is Art for Social Change? There are many ways of defining art for social change. In each of these cases, art for social change strives toward effective engagement with social issues that integrate and celebrate imaginative thinking, helping people…