Projects tagged "Digital & Technology"

STYLELIKEU
Practitioner:
Elisa Goodkind & Lily Mandelbaum
Date:
Jan 26 2009
Elisa and Lily chose to create StyleLikeU as an alternative to this disempowering status quo. In 2009, the duo picked up a home video camera and launched their "Closet" series, documenting diverse individuals who were challenging fashion industry norms in their style.
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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Practitioner:
Jim Carrey
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — "Dumb and Dumber," "The Mask," "Liar Liar," "Ace Ventura," just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back the comic goofiness for more serious turns in films like "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
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Ballerina uses art to express solidarity with Iran protests
Practitioner:
TARA GHASSEMIEH
Date:
May 4 2023
AMNA NAWAZ: Since anti-government protests erupted in Iran last year, people around the world have taken to social media to show their support. That includes an Iranian American ballerina who's tapping into her own heritage and her art, in solidarity with those pushing for more rights. The "NewsHour"'s Julia Griffin reports for our arts and culture series, Canvas.
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Reverse pay-per-view!
Practitioner:
Farm USA
Date:
May 10 2012
Since summer 2011, FARM’s activists have been paying people $1 each to watch a 4-minute video depicting the inherent cruelties of raising animals for food. This tactic, known as “pay-per-view,” has led 80% of participants to reduce meat consumption, sparing tens of thousands of animals from abuse and slaughter.
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Everyday Sexism Project
Practitioner:
laura@everydaysexism.com
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Started by UK resident Laura Bates, The Everyday Sexism project is an open forum for women to record their stories of experienced sexism. The project was started as a means to show that gender inequality and sexism pervade contemporary society.
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Black Lives Matter meets Animal Crossing: how protesters take their activism into video games
Practitioner:
Adelle
Date:
Aug 7 2020
s street protests against anti-black racism erupted across the globe, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players were taking their own stand. Adelle, a software engineer from New York, decided to create a memorial on her in-game island, decorated with flowers and pixel art portraits of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other black victims of police brutality.
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Perigives
Practitioner:
Erin Da Eun Song
Date:
Jan 1 2019
The public bathrooms at Penn Station in New York City are a dirty, depressing place. But now, there’s a bright spot: a poster that encourages women to donate menstrual products, like pads or tampon, to help the many homeless women who frequent the bathroom.
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In Response to Controversial Funder, Protestors Rechristen Met Museum Plaza
Practitioner:
Occupy Museums, The Illuminator
Date:
Sep 9 2014
On 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, police had moved protestors to a cordoned area on the opposite side of the street from the museum; a substantial police presence remained throughout the evening, but no other arrests took place.
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Global Citizen Ticket Drive: Fans can earn points for concerts through social activism
Practitioner:
Global Citizen Tickets Initiative
Date:
May 1 2013
By Steve Knopper
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Feminist activist could face prison for vagina drawings
Practitioner:
Yulia Tsvetkova
Date:
Jul 7 2020
"My body is not pornography" — that is the slogan written under many of the social media posts inspired by Yulia Tsvetkova. Women are posting pictures of themselves showing off their curves, body hair and scars, along with feminist art and pictures of everyday objects that look like vaginas — like fruits or flowers.
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Face Your World
Practitioner:
Jeanne van Heeswijk
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Face Your World was set up as a tailor-made educational program for the youngster to explore and participate in the process of city renewal. The project used Interactor software, an interactive tool to enable users to rebuild their neighborhood. The software creates a virtual environment which represents the neighborhood and enables users to see the result of its modification while it has been used.
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The Root-Systemic Racism
Practitioner:
Danielle Cook
Date:
Jul 5 2020
"When it comes to the effects of the virus on black lives, the roots run deep. ⠀⠀ This is one of the hardest illustrations I’ve ever done. Not because of the tree - but because of the overwhelming nature of the subject at hand. Seeing headlines like “Blacks are Dying at Higher Rates from Covid-19” SHOOK me! ⠀⠀
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Deepfake Activism: Campaign Uses AI to Target Germany's Far-Right Party
Practitioner:
Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (ZPS)
Date:
Nov 23 2023
The German government is considering legal action after a deep fake video of Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls for the far-right AfD party to be banned.
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Dark Side of the Prism
Practitioner:
Justin Blinder
Date:
Jan 1 2013
"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.
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At Frieze, Do Ho Suh and Brother Eul Ho Suh Explore Intergenerational Legacies in Korean Art
Practitioner:
Suh Se Ok
Date:
Sep 6 2024
South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is internationally known for his ghostly, diaphanous architecture and fabric-made objects, which create imaginary spaces that are physically present yet impossible to inhabit. His large-scale, immersive, but impermanent installations serve as “acts of memorialization,” exploring themes of identity, home, and the tension between personal and public space.
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Unprisoned: Stories From The System
Practitioner:
Eve Abrams
Date:
Feb 3 2016
Independent producer and longtime WWNO collaborator Eve Abrams brings us Unprisoned: Stories From The System. From New Orleans and Louisiana, the world’s incarceration capital, we meet those serving time inside and outside the criminal justice system.
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Take a Photo, Save a Child
Practitioner:
Jianrong Yu
Date:
Jan 25 2012
On January 17, 2011, Hong Yuping (洪玉萍), from Fujian Province, contacted Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), about her family’s plight and requested assistance: In June 2009, their son, Yang Weixin (杨伟鑫), then age six, was abducted from their hometown, Quanzhou, and they had been searching for him ever since.1 In early 2010, Hong had recognized Yang Weixin in a photo of three children begging outside a Xiamen train statio
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Courage Score
Practitioner:
Courage Campaign
Date:
Feb 1 2018
Courage Scores grade California state legislators on their political courage, revealing how well they stand up for their constituents over corporations or interest groups that exploit Californians, particularly the poor, disadvantaged, or communities of color.
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Herself
Practitioner:
Caitlin Stasey, Hannah Terry-Whyte, Keenan MacWilliam
Date:
May 13 2015
Herself.com may not be safe for work, but it FEELS safe for work. That's how intimate and gorgeous the shots of these naked women are, they transcend, for some, the feeling that you are looking at the taboo. You are simply looking at a person, in a quality of artistry that you might not be used to seeing on what are deemed "regular people".
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Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Practitioner:
Feminists in Turkey
Date:
Mar 28 2021
It has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey. When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree at midnight last Friday, annulling Turkey's ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, women poured onto the streets of Turkish cities to protest. Further demonstrations are planned.
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Edward Snowden Hologram
Practitioner:
The Illuminator
Date:
Apr 7 2015
NEW YORK — Hours after police removed an illicit bust of Edward Snowden from its perch in a Brooklyn park on Monday, artists replaced it with a hologram. The group of artists — who collectively call themselves "The Illuminator" and are not related to the trio behind the original sculpture — used laptops and projection equipment to cast an image of Snowden in a haze of smoke at the spot where the sculpture once stood.
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#EverydayIran
Practitioner:
Everyday Iran
Date:
Apr 6 2016
"Everyday Iran”, inspired by “Everyday Africa”, is the most widespread mobile photography project based on social networks in Iran which started since early in 2014. We in Everyday Iran ask the whole people who live and work in Iran to send us their photos of daily life in the country with #everydayiran. Those photos which are selected by 5 Iranian curators are reposted on our social media pages.
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Practitioner:
World Bank
Date:
Mar 1 2010
What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a "game for change"? EVOKE is what happens. 
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"Guerras Electorales"....a game that mimics electoral fraud
Practitioner:
Innox
Date:
May 1 2012
Right before the presidential elections in Mexico, planned for July of 2012, a local software enterprise has developed a smart-phone game that shows how to commit fraud at the elections.
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Occu-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 21 2011
Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.
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