Projects tagged "Online"

Lesbians 101
Practitioner:
FindChaos
Date:
Feb 1 2015
Lesbians 101 is a full-color, 16 page magazine-sized comic book packed with light-hearted education based on the most common set of questions lesbians frequently get.
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IMPEACH
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 4 2017
IMPEACH An online exhibition of art work by twenty artists Katherine Aoki, Deborah Harris, Nicolas Lampert,Cicely Cottingham, Art Hazelwood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Priscilla Stadler, Tim Fite, Anne Q McKeown, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Joseph O’Neal, Donna Coleman, Robert Geshlider, Michael Dal Cerro, Leona Strassberg Steiner, Barbara Madsen, Ray Must, Carol Radsprecher and Patricia Dahlman
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Public Dissentiment
Practitioner:
Derek Curry
Date:
Jan 1 2016
The project consists of an online tool that helps protestors negatively impact the price of a publicly traded stock by using the same sentiment analysis tools used by many stock trading algorithms. In the contemporary stock markets, high-frequency trading bots that continuously buy and sell stocks have replaced human market makers. These bots provide the market with liquidity by being ready to take the buy or sell end of a stock trade most of the time.
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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.
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Practitioner:
Cleve Jones
Date:
Oct 11 1987
Cleve Jones's powerful vision for memorializing those lost to AIDS was realized in October 1987 in Washington D.C. It showcased the artistic contributions of people who'd lost loved ones to the virus from a number of US metropolitan centers. The quilt has continued to grow for the nearly 40 years since. By 1992, the AIDS Memorial Quilt included panels from every state and 28 countries.
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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Practitioner:
Channel 4 Education and Littleloud
Date:
Jul 17 2011
From the Games for Change website:
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How Unemployed People See the World
Practitioner:
Erica Buist and Harry Slater
Date:
Mar 23 2014
Everyone knows that unemployment is one of the most serious problems that plagues society today. Yet, even though this problem is widely acknowledged, it remains difficult for many people to relate to and truly understand the personal hardships that unemployment gives rise to.
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Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Practitioner:
Nike
Date:
May 29 2020
On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead, one of the nation’s leading athletic apparel companies called on individuals to not turn their back on the painful issue of racism in the United States.
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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.
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Aeromexico campaign proposes “DNA Discounts”
Practitioner:
Ogilvy
Date:
Jan 1 2018
AeroMexico unveiled a program called “DNA Discounts,” which offers discounts on flights to Americans who can show by taking a test that they have Mexican DNA. The amount of the discount depends on the percentage of Mexican ancestry. For example, a person who has 15% Mexican heritage qualifies for 15% off.
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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.
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Real Cost of Prisons
Practitioner:
Real Cost of Prisons
Date:
Jan 1 2000
The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration.
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Comics: A Graphic Record of the Here and Now
Practitioner:
multiple artists, curated by Shane Bennan, Creative Time
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Creative Time, a public art fund, invited artists to make online comics that addressed contemporary issues. Every month for two years a new artist presented their comic strip online. At the end, there were a total of 24 comic works that were archived online and also released as a publication in 2010.
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Your Drunk Neighbor: Donald Trump
Practitioner:
Friend Dog Studios
Date:
Oct 3 2015
The video shows an actor as "your drunk neighbor" lipsyncing to real soundbites from Donald Trump. The artists who made the video claim, "If you close your eyes while listening to presidential hopeful Donald Trump, you can see and smell that neighbor you have with too many dogs and a drinking problem."
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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.
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Women on Waves Creates Hoax Website under the Diesel brand to Stand for Worker's Rights
Practitioner:
Women on Waves
Date:
Feb 3 2012
A press release from the non-profit  organization - Women on Waves - regarding the intention of the creation of the Diesel for Women hoax website, pointing out the mistreatment of women workers in the fashion industry. This blurb and included images are taken directly from the Diesel for Women website:"BY Women on waves on February 4, 2012
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Climate strikes continue online: 'We want to keep the momentum going'
Practitioner:
Climate Change Activists, Fridays for Future
Date:
Apr 22 2020
The large crowds and brightly coloured placards of the school climate strikes became some of the defining images of 2019. “There would be lots of chanting and the energy was always amazing,” says Dominique Palmer, a 20-year-old climate activist from London who has been involved with the strikes for more than a year. “Being there with everyone in that moment is truly an electrifying feeling. It’s very different now.”
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Sluts Across America
Practitioner:
Roopa Vasudevan
Date:
May 11 2012
In 2012, Sandra Fluke stood up in front of Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to advocate for the mandatory inclusion of birth control coverage in health insurance. Republicans on the committee refused to allow her to speak.
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Women of Allah
Practitioner:
Shrine Neshat
Date:
Apr 7 1993
Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah is a photographic series exploring the complex identities of Muslim women in post-revolutionary Iran. Combining black-and-white portraits, Persian calligraphy, and symbolic elements such as guns and veils, Neshat interrogates themes of martyrdom, violence, femininity, and resistance.
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Smog Ring - Pollution Transformed into Art
Practitioner:
Daan Roosegaarde
Date:
Jan 1 2014
“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and “social designer”, who has been making effort to combine the energy saving technology with visually enjoyable art.
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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.
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Music video in support of gay marriage rights
Practitioner:
Sam Smith
Date:
Feb 5 2015
Grammy nominee and Rolling Stone cover star Sam Smith unveiled the video for his new single "Lay Me Down," the latest track off his platinum-selling debut album In the Lonely Hour. The video, filmed at the parish church of St.
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Cut and Paint
Practitioner:
Various individuals
Date:
Jan 1 2010
Cut and Paint is a website with free access to a wide variety of visual designs that can be printed out, cut, and used as graffiti stencils anywhere. Access to a variety of resolutions of each design is free for all, and there is a standing invitation for artist-activists to contribute their own designs for others to use.
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Practitioner:
The Grace Period Blog: 7 Anonymous Artists/Activists
Date:
Nov 21 2013
“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a country where personal and national debt is high and jobs are few. In this environment, will our creative spirits be resilient?
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Green Maps for Resilient Cities Everywhere
Practitioner:
Ideas City, New Museum
Date:
May 13 2013
How Green is My City? Take part in mapping a fresh perspective on your community! Learn about the global Green Map movement and GreenMap.org.
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