Projects tagged "Online"

What Kind of Man are You?
Practitioner:
aleXsandro Palombo
Date:
Mar 7 2014
In a dark nod to International Women's Day, artist aleXsandro Palombo has turned to the world of cartoon characters to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence. His series, "No Violence Against Women," transforms iconic animated women into victims of abuse, resulting in a familiar yet ultimately disturbing collection of illustrations.
Nameless Vigilantes
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Apr 17 2003
Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a loosely associated hacktivist group. It originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.
Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Practitioner:
Anonymous Russian pranksters
Date:
Jun 26 2024
Pranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Cruelty Cutter App
Practitioner:
Rescue Freedom Project
Date:
Jan 5 2018
Cruelty-Cutter is cruelty-free shopping made simple! Cast away any doubts when purchasing items by using Cruelty-Cutter to scan an item and have an immediate response about its animal testing status. Share your results with friends on social media and also share your concern or praise with the company itself. Companies that still choose to test on animals will get the message that Cruelty-Cutter users are against what they are doing!
At the Age of Coronavirus: Rise of Xenophobia and Anti-Asian Racism
Practitioner:
Racist, Xenophobian, Anti-Asian organizations
Date:
Mar 4 2020
The global response to COVID-19 has made clear that the fear of contracting disease has an ugly cousin: xenophobia. As the coronavirus has spread from China to other countries, anti-Asian discrimination has followed closely behind, manifesting in plummeting sales at Chinese restaurants, near-deserted Chinatown districts and racist bullying against people perceived to be Chinese.
ARTISTS FIGHT TRUMP
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Mar 11 2019
Many citizens of the United States have spoken out against Trump by organizing, protesting, voting, writing and making art. Most of us have hoped for the impeachment of this inept, cruel, lying and corrupt con man who is a danger to our country and to the world. We the people of the United States will continue to speak out and fight against Trump.
I'm Every Woman
Practitioner:
Cati Vanrell, Lorraine King Marshall, Marie Cronin, Fala Buggy
Date:
Mar 11 2017
Our Action: We set up “I’m every Woman” as a 3D street installation. It took place on the Boardwalk, Cork City on the weekend of International Women’s week. Our aims were to promote gender-equality. As a group we identified women as locally and globally dehumanized. We challenged this by honouring women and interacting with people we encountered to celebrate women, both locally and globally.
5 Ways PETA Asia Became an Animal Rights Groundbreaker in China
Practitioner:
PETA Asia
Date:
Dec 2 2016
The world is shocked by China’s dog meat festival and by videos showing that animals are eaten alive in restaurants in Guangdong. But in that country of 1.3 billon people, a massive shift in ideology is happening. Our friends at PETA Asia are helping millions of people see that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.
K-Pop Fans Flood Dallas PD's App to Help Protect BLM Protesters
Practitioner:
Kpop fans
Date:
Jun 1 2020
Early Sunday morning, the Dallas Police Department's Twitter account tweeted for followers to download its iWatch Dallas app and share videos "of illegal activity from the protests." The police are looking to arrest lawbreakers at weekend demonstrations decrying police violence against black people. The benefit of the app, according to the tweet, was the ability for informants to stay anonymous.
Alzheimer's Disease Fonts
Practitioner:
Date:
Sep 21 2017
On Sept 21, 2017, the professional committee of dementia and related diseases of China geriatric health association, together with many caring enterprises, jointly launched a public welfare activity entitled "no longer forget", hoping to call on the public to pay attention to Alzheimer's disease and promote early screening.
Send it On Disney Channel Project
Practitioner:
Disney
Date:
Aug 11 2009
"Send It On" is a song recorded by American recording artists Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez from charity project Disney's Friends for Change. The track's producers Adam Anders and Peer Åström co-wrote it with Nikki Hassman. The song was released on August 11, 2009 by Walt Disney and Hollywood Records as a charity single in order to benefit international environmental associations.
REDACT: a world without net neutrality
Practitioner:
Alexander Coury
Date:
Apr 25 2018
The 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 which we rely on.
RAPtivism
Practitioner:
Aisha Fukushima
Date:
Sep 19 2013
AISHA FUKUSHIMA is a Singer, Speaker, Educator, and ‘RAPtivist’ (rap activist). Fukushima founded RAPtivism (Rap Activism), a hip hop project spanning 20 countries and four continents, amplifying universal efforts for freedom and justice.
INTERNATIONAL LINK BEETWEEN FEMALE VIDEO ARTISTS
Practitioner:
FEMLINK
Date:
Jun 7 2012
WHAT IS FEMLINK Who we are ? We are Independent visual artists.
Protest Protest
Practitioner:
protestprotest.com
Date:
Apr 6 2013
This is a Universal Alignment Focal Point issue.
Abandoned Love
Practitioner:
Peyton Fulford
Date:
Apr 1 2015
Utilizing Tumblr, Peyton Fulford crafted Abandoned Love as a participatory art project with other users on Tumblr's social network. Asking her followers "to send phrases from their diary, text messages, and anything else they personally have written in their own words", Fulford noted how an overwhelming majority of the written responses were concerned with the theme of love.
ScareMail
Practitioner:
Benjamin Grosser
Date:
Jan 1 2013
ScareMail 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 “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense.
Blued
Practitioner:
Geng Le
Date:
Mar 14 2019
How a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China — bringing together a minority community without activism. By Yi-Ling Liu March 5, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET
War Drags You Out
Practitioner:
Saint Hoax
Date:
Jan 1 2014
War 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 struck by the richness of this glamour oriented culture. I took a minute to actually look at the faux queens and deconstruct their main components.
Chanel Miller Exhibit
Practitioner:
Chanel Miller
Date:
Jan 1 2021
Chanel Miller is a Palo Alto–born artist and writer. She first came into the public eye as “Emily Doe,” the victim of a 2015 Stanford University sexual assault whose impact statement presented in court went viral. Miller relinquished her anonymity in 2019, when she published the acclaimed memoir, “Know My Name.” "I was, I am, I will be" is Miller’s first commissioned artwork for a museum and is on view through February 2022.
Fanism - Tallahassee Native John Gertomo's Flock
Practitioner:
Anonymous Users
Date:
Jun 1 2012
On a now defunct MMO, users rallied together under a fake religion to protest religious groups proselytizing on the messageboards.
How a 57-hour Donkey Kong game struck a blow against online toxicity
Practitioner:
Hbomberguy
Date:
Jan 20 2019
One of the defining features of politics in the 21st century has been the way online cultural phenomena can cross over into the “real” world. Unfortunately, perhaps because the internet seems to bring out the worst in people, those phenomena have largely been, well, awful.
DIWO (DO-It-With-Others)
Practitioner:
FurtherField
Date:
Feb 1 2007
DIWO (Do It With Others) is a distributed campaign for emancipatory, networked art practices instigated by arts and activist network Furtherfield in 2006.
#LikeAGirl
Practitioner:
Lauren Greenfield
Date:
Feb 15 2015
The #LikeAGirl campaign was aired as a commercial during the 2015 SuperBowl. In the commercial, young girls were asked to act out certain phrases. They were told to "fight like girl", "throw a ball like a girl", "run like and girl", and so on. As an adolescent or an adult, these phrases carry a negative connotation. Girls are seen as weak, frilly, and inferior.
"That's not art it's Victorian porn!" - how one small Barbie doll took on the art world
Practitioner:
Sarah Williamson
Date:
Feb 10 2020
Museums and art galleries are not usually the sites of feminist political protest. Yet over the past couple of years, before the lockdown, gallery visitors all over the UK had noticed a small, determined activist whose modus operandi is “Small signs, big questions, fabulous wardrobe”.

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