Projects tagged "Online"

Hogwarts Legacy game vs LGBTQ
Practitioner:
Gamers
Date:
Feb 10 2023
Many people were waiting for the release of the upcoming game Hogwarts Legacy based on the book series Harry Potter. The long antcipated game has been subject to alot of criticism since the game was first announced in September 2020, mostly due to J.K Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, and her outspoken views on the transgender community.
呼吸之痛 The Pain of Breath
Practitioner:
Date:
Sep 11 2018
Pneumoconiosis has become the most serious occupational disease in China, and the vast majority of sufferers, nearly 6 million, are migrant workers. Because of the long-term inhalation of dust caused by pulmonary fibrosis, they usually breathing if not oxygen machine help, easy to suffocate.
“Until We Are All Free” Art Kit
Practitioner:
Culture STrike
Date:
Jan 1 2018
Art has the power to move our imaginations and bodies, transforming the emotional and physical spaces we share. It has the power to build and transform social relations and to bring about equity and justice.
Anti-Abortion ‘Magical Birth Canal’ Videos
Practitioner:
Laura Klassen, CHOICE42
Date:
Jun 2 2018
This Anti-Abortion Influencer Is Using ‘Magical Birth Canal’ Videos to Supercharge the Movement Laura Klassen is using props, satire, and a pink wig to pioneer a young and edgy approach to anti-abortion messaging in Canada. By Valerie Kipnis and Elizabeth Landers May 4 2020, 12:45pm
The Most Shocking Image I Can Remember Is Seeing Myself in the Mirror
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Apr 3 2011
It can be important to reflect on the artistic recounts of activists experiences under state imprisonment. In a revealing interview with Artspace, Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei reflects on his 81-day secret detention in 2011 and the psychological strategies used to dismantle identity and autonomy.
GLAAD and Ogilvy Launch “Protect This Kid” Campaign in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Practitioner:
GLAAD, Ogilvy
Date:
Apr 11 2024
On Thursday, April 11th, GLAAD and Ogilvy, a global advertising, marketing and public relations agency, launched a bold worldwide digital campaign, “Protect This Kid,” in support of LGBTQ youth.
Leftover Women
Practitioner:
SK-II
Date:
Apr 6 2016
They are disparaged as “free-willed” women, “stubborn,” “picky,” “incomplete.” But a video by an East Asian beauty brand that went viral over the past week has upended the conversation on China’s sheng nu, which translates literally into “leftover women” — those who happen to be over 27 and unmarried. “People think that in Chinese society an unmarried woman is incomplete. You feel like an outsider,” says one young woman.
Battleground
Practitioner:
Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone
Date:
Apr 21 2021
The opening lines of this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, “Battleground,” by Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone examine how skin color has become just that…a battleground. The short captures the particular discomfort of having to argue for one’s value in a society that should care instead of question. Kwesi, a Black man, powerfully conveys these feelings to his co-director Mark, a white man, in the wake of George Floyd’s death last May.
Cannabis Social Clubs around the planet Earth
Practitioner:
Cannabis friends, Cannabis Social clubs, cannabis activists
Date:
May 4 2013
Message to the world. We are legalizing CANNABIS everywhere in the world, please support us. We are making PICTURES showing us as cannabis smokers or growers, and supporting the legalization. In France, the movement becomes bigger and bigger, check this public profile of a french leader of the CANNABIS SOCIAL CLUBS to see how it looks : https://www.facebook.com/dominique.broc
Becoming an Image
Practitioner:
Cassils
Date:
Jun 1 2012
Cassils' Becoming an Image confronts issues of queer and trans visibility, bodily violence, and the politics of witnessing. The performance uses a powerful blend of media—including live action in darkness, flash photography, clay sculpture, and sound—to explore how trauma and resilience are physically and symbolically inscribed onto the queer body.
Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Practitioner:
Melting Ice
Date:
Dec 1 2018
The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The Finnish group Melting Ice is spearheading the initiative with the intention of carving a 115-foot ice sculpture of Mr Trump’s face, and have dubbed the effort “Project Trumpmore”.
A Day in the Life of An Escort
Practitioner:
Kate McGrew, SWAI
Date:
Dec 27 2017
A photo project/online feed to increase visibility of sex workers and increase the sex workers’ sense of community of voice, in response to a spate of violence against the community in Ireland. The project led to a piece in The National, and increased area interest and conversation about violence against sex workers.
The Hidden Truth: Intimate Partner Violence Revealed
Practitioner:
Art Works for Change, Louise Bourgeois
Date:
Jan 21 2011
Louise Bourgeois is a well known French-American artist born in Paris in 1911. Much of her artwork is geared towards female empowerment as she puts focus on the trials and tribulations of what it is like being a woman in a patriarchal society. As a result, many people associate her with the feminist movement. This idea of feminism can be seen in some of Bourgeois’ artwork, which resembles women empowerment.
Activists Illustrated - Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Practitioner:
María María Acha-Kutscher
Date:
Jul 8 2015
Latin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations.
Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance
Practitioner:
Rod Stanley, Good Trouble
Date:
Jan 1 2017
If, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective arts platform dedicated to celebrating the culture of resistance and grassroots activists promoting positive change.
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.
Undertale
Practitioner:
Toby Fox
Date:
Sep 15 2015
Undertale is a critically acclaimed JRPG indie title that was recently released, and you can get it on the game’s official website or Steam.
Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides
Practitioner:
Joseph DeLappe
Date:
Jul 4 2018
A computer game as a data visualizer - a daily reenactment of the total number of USA gun homicides since January 1st, 2018. The project works from a daily update of gun homicides as scraped from the Gun Violence Archive.
Fuck for Forest: Erotic Ecology
Practitioner:
Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Fuck for Forest (FFF) is a non-profit environmental organisation founded in 2004 in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen. It funds itself through a website of sexually explicit videos and photographs, charging a membership fee for access. A portion of funds are donated to the cause of rescuing the world's rainforests.
Three Pro-Hong Kong gamers protest into an international storm
Practitioner:
Gamers
Date:
Feb 27 2020
Blizzard Entertainnment an American gaming company that has created some of the world's most beloved games has permantly banned Blitzchung, a professional Hearthstone player from Hong Kong who shouted after a livestreamed game, "Liberate Hong Kong! The revolution of our age!" After the professional player shouted that out, Blizzard banned the pro gamer from playing Hearthstone for a year and reclaimed his prize money from the tournament.
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.
Terrorism to Monuments
Practitioner:
Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Date:
Jul 10 2019
Within the topic of terrorism, the idea of loss and memory is always a pervasive idea that cannot be avoided. Within the topic of loss and memory, the idea of monuments is always a pervasive idea that cannot be avoided because they are used to commemorate and remember those that lost their lives to the terrorists.
A Period Coloring Book Now Exists And It’s Bloody Delightful
Practitioner:
Andrea Yip
Date:
Nov 2 2016
A new coloring book is making menstruation easier to talk about, one sex-positive illustration at a time.
Black Lives Matter to Gaming
Practitioner:
BLM protestors
Date:
Aug 7 2020
During the pandemic of Covid protestors have found many different ways in which they can express themselves. Some examples of which are the BLM rallies that took place in the video game The Sims to the China / Hong Kong protests in Animal Crossing. During the period of time where street protests against anti-black racism was rampant around the world, Animal Crossing players were taking their own stand against racism.
Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie Collection
Practitioner:
University of Michgan
Date:
Jun 1 2015
The Joseph A. Labadie Collection contains posters which have been acquired over the past 100 years. This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later. Many are undated.

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