Tag:
internet
-
REDACT: a world without net neutrality
Read more: REDACT: a world without net neutralityThe elimination of Net Neutrality is a much bigger issue than most people would like to admit. This issue stems far from just an issue dealing with an open internet, free from biased control of the internet service providers, whom…
-
Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Read more: Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacyIn the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…
-
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…
-
The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPA
Read more: The Oatmeal Protests SOPA and PIPAOn January 18, 2012, numerous website across the internet called for an internet blackout in protest of SOPA and PIPA. SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act, were a series of bills promoted by…
-
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…
-
Dark Side of the Prism
Read more: Dark Side of the Prism“Dark Side of the Prism” is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings. The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency’s on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.…
-
War Drags You Out
Read more: War Drags You OutWar Drags You Out is a project by artist “Saint Hoax” looking at the similarities between defining characteristics of Drag Queens and Political Leaders. Text from St. Hoax’s website: “After attending a drag show for the first time, I was…
-
The Moon Project
Read more: The Moon ProjectArtists Ai Wei Wei and Olafur Eliasson have come together to collaborate on the project Moon. The Moon Project is an interactive platform that consists of an open online interface, which anyone with an internet connection can access and leave…
-
Games for Change
Read more: Games for ChangeGames for Change is a community of game designers, activists, artists and individuals focused on creating and using digital games for purposes of social change. Games for Change is a large and loose community, but it has a major nonprofit…
-
Spent: A Game about Surviving Poverty
Read more: Spent: A Game about Surviving PovertySpent is an online in-browser game designed by ad agency McKinney as part of a partnership with Urban Ministries of Durham, NC, calling attention to the problem of poverty and educate people about homelessness. In the game, players are challenged…