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Depression Quest
Practitioner:
Zoe Quinn
Date:
Aug 11 2014
Earlier 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 injury that’s never going to fully heal … a good solid injury to the knees. I’d say a brain damage, but we don’t want to make it so she ends up too retarded to fear us.”
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1,001 chairs for Aiweiwei in Taipei
Practitioner:
Taiwanese artists and activists
Date:
Jun 4 2011
A large chair installation work featuring the Chinese name of detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei was set up in Taipei Saturday --the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen SquareMassacre -- to call for Ai's release. Bei Ling, an artist from China who has been barred from enteringhis home country since 2000, used 1,001 empty chairs to piece together the three characters of Ai's name in Liberty Square at 6: 04p.m.
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826 Valencia
Practitioner:
Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari
Date:
Mar 4 2002
826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
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Beautiful Trouble
Practitioner:
Beautiful Trouble
Date:
Jun 1 2012
Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.
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Activist Hangs Herself in Protest
Practitioner:
FEMEN
Date:
Jan 28 2016
A topless activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Paris, to protest against the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The protester, from international women's rights group Femen, hung from the bridge in an execution-style demonstration on 28 January 2016. She had an Iranian flag painted on her chest.
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Critical Engeneering Manifesto
Practitioner:
Julian Oliver
Date:
Oct 23 2011
 The Critical Engineering ManifestoThe Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.
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Fotokonbit (Putting Cameras in Haitian Hands) - ONGOING working organization
Practitioner:
fotokonbit
Date:
Jun 10 2011
The Haitian Creole word "konbit" denotes the idea of similar talents joining together to work towards a common goal. The founders — a group of photographers, educators, and artists — came up with the idea for Fotokonbit a few years ago to "empower Haitians to tell their own stories and document their community", but it was the 2010 earthquake that gave the group new urgency.
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Practitioner:
Equal Justice Initiative
Date:
Apr 26 2018
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
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ARTICULO 6: Narratives of gender, strength and politics
Practitioner:
Lucia Cuba
Date:
Nov 30 2011
“ARTICULO 6: narratives of gender, strength and politics” is an activist design project that aims to raise awareness about the case of forced sterilizations implemented during the government of Alberto Fujimori in Peru.
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Sirens of the Lambs
Practitioner:
Banksy
Date:
Oct 11 2013
Sirens of the Lambs By Banksy A slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the meatpacking district and then citywide for the next two weeks. http://www.banksyny.com/# Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA
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Photo Requests from Solitary
Practitioner:
Tamms Year Ten, Parsons The New School for Design, Solitary Watch, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement, the Open Society Foundations, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Jean Casella, Jeanine Oleson, Rachel Herman
Date:
Sep 20 2013
Featuring photographs that represent a unique collaboration between men held in supermax prisons and the photographers who fulfilled their requests. Curated by Laurie Jo Reynolds, Tamms Year Ten, Jeanine Oleson, Parsons The New School for Design, and Jean Casella, Solitary Watch.
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Do Not Talk About Climate Change
Practitioner:
Franke James
Date:
Oct 15 2013
Franke James put up "Do Not Talk about Climate Change" posters around cities to raise people's awareness on climate change issues.
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De-Cruit
Practitioner:
Stephan Wolfert
Date:
Jan 1 2018
The failure of the United States to adequately meet the mental health needs of its military veterans has been identified as a national crisis.
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Monopoly
Practitioner:
Elizabeth Magie
Date:
Jan 1 1904
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism Buy land – they aren’t making it any more,’ quipped Mark Twain. It’s a maxim that would certainly serve you well in a game of Monopoly, the bestselling board game that has taught generations of children to buy up property, stack it with hotels, and charge fellow players sky-high rents for the privilege of accidentally landing there.
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put yourself in their shoes
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Nov 29 2015
Thousands of empty shoes replace marchers at cancelled climate protest in Paris After French authorities cancelled two climate protests in the wake of the Paris attacks, thousands of would-be marchers kept empty shoes in their place. The moving installation coincides with the COP21, a climate summit of 195 UN nations in the French capital. The protest was called by Avaaz
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Carly's Cafe
Practitioner:
Carly Fleischmann
Date:
Jun 3 2012
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Wait Watchers
Practitioner:
Haley Morris-Cafiero
Date:
Feb 11 2013
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Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)
Practitioner:
Laurie Anderson
Date:
Apr 16 1973
"I decided to shoot pictures of men who made comments to me on the street. I had always hated this invasion of my privacy and now I had the means of my revenge. As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon, I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.
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Street Art Used to Fill Urban Emptiness
Practitioner:
Nikita Nomerz
Date:
Mar 19 2013
In his ongoing street art series “The Living Wall,” Russian artist Nikita Nomerz brings life to decrepit buildings in Russia by painting faces on them. Nomerz travels extensively around Russia and makes an effort to paint a character in each place he visits. He talks about his art in this interview with Global Street Art.
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Dyke Action Machine!
Practitioner:
Carrie Moyer & Sue Schaffner
Date:
Jan 1 1999
Taken from the website: Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Between 1991 and 2004 DAM! blitzed the streets of New York City with public art projects that combined Madison Avenue savvy with Situationist tactics.
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