Projects tagged "Online"

Angry Asian Girls United
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Angry Asian Girls United
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Angry Asian Girls United was created in 2012 by a then-17 year old girl who was frustrated with feeling like there was no place for her to talk about issues of racism and othering. This community has since grown in the thousands and seen hundreds of stories told from Asian girls and women all over the world.
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno
Date:
Jul 1 2017
You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not only by the name but by the concept of being unapologetic and brown as the premise for a body of street art.
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Fat Barbie
Practitioner:
Plus-Size-Modeling
Date:
Nov 29 2013
For those of you unfamiliar with the wonderful Worth1000, it’s a website that hosts creative contests of all kinds, most notably for photoshoppers who are outstanding at what they do. Hell, just look at the first question on the site’s FAQ list and you’ll have a basic idea of how good some of these people are at making terrific photoshops.
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Not Photoshopped
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Feel More Better, Bloggers
Date:
Jul 10 2012
From StyleCaster:
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Apr 19 0020
This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is a poetically driven spiritual prayer for freedom of expression and freedom after expression.
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Photographing Every Disappearing Manhattan Bodega
Practitioner:
Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata
Date:
May 11 2015
"is a conceptual documentary project in which I photographed every Mom and Pop-style cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible, as I walked each block in the city ( CLICK FOR A MAP of my route). I fear these veritable microcosms of NYC will be swallowed in the presently swelling wave of corporate homogeny.
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Alzheimer's Disease Fonts
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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.
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Ghen Cô Vy / Corona Hand Washing Song
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Khac Hung, Min x Erik, Vietnam Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health
Date:
Mar 1 2020
'Jealousy Ms. Vy' is a creative project of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, in collaboration with musician Khac Hung, singer Min and singer Erik. Through this project, we look forward to empowering and trusting the community, so that we can join hands to combat COVID-19 (aka nCoV-2019).
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Coursera
Practitioner:
Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that partners with top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the top universities are educating millions of students. The technology enables the best professors to teach hundreds of thousands of students.
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Real Beauty Sketches
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Dove
Date:
Apr 14 2013
Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign is the new face of viral marketing success. The uplifting promotional video generated record-breaking online interest, yielding more than 114 million views the first month. This was thanks in part to the Unilever brand's efforts to spread its message worldwide: Dove uploaded the video in 25 languages to 33 of its official YouTube channels, reaching consumers in more than 110 countries.
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On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
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Banksy
Date:
Feb 26 2015
On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens. British street artist Banksy has posted pictures and video of works made during a trip to the war-torn Gaza Strip. One shows a figure reminiscent of Rodin’s “The Thinker” — though, set in a still-standing doorway surrounded by nothing but rubble, the figure seems more distraught than contemplative.
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Vacated
Practitioner:
Justin Blinder
Date:
Jan 1 2014
Vacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning's PLUTO dataset, and it leverages Google Street View's cache to visualize absent lots just before new buildings were constructed.
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Waffles + Mochi
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Michelle Obama/ Netflix
Date:
Feb 9 2021
"Michelle Obama’s mission of encouraging kids to eat healthier is getting a global spin — and a few puppet allies. The former first lady is launching a kids’ cooking show on Netflix as part of the production deal between Netflix and the production company she founded with her husband, former president Barack Obama.
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Semiotics of the Kitchen
Practitioner:
Martha Rosler
Date:
Dec 31 1975
“Semiotics of the Kitchen” is a feminist video art that examines the symbolism of women's confinement within domestic spaces, utilizing the framework of a televised cooking show. In this piece, Rosler assumes the role of an "anti-Julia Child," wielding a series of kitchen utensils in alphabetical order, some archaic and peculiar, assigning them arbitrary names before forcefully miming their use.
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Tracking Transience
Practitioner:
Hasan Elahi
Date:
Jan 1 2002
An erroneous tip called into law enforcement authorities in 2002 subjected Hasan Elahi to an intensive investigation by the FBI and after undergoing months of interrogations, he was finally cleared of suspicions. After this harrowing experience, Elahi conceived “Tracking Transience” and opened just about every aspect of his life to the public.
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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.
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Play the News: Making the News Interactive
Practitioner:
Impact Games
Date:
Feb 13 2008
From Games for Change site:
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Bad News: the game
Practitioner:
DROG
Date:
Jan 1 2020
In Bad News, you take on the role of fake news-monger. Drop all pretense of ethics and choose a path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. But keep an eye on your ‘followers’ and ‘credibility’ meters. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. But watch out: you lose if you tell obvious lies or disappoint your supporters!
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
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Iranti
Date:
Jan 3 2012
ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what they see and hear.
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In music video, seminarian at Belen Jesuit Prep uses rap to tackle coronavirus, global concerns
Practitioner:
Brother Michael Martinez
Date:
Apr 6 2020
WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A seminarian and faculty member at a South Florida school is taking a creative approach to engaging with students about challenging issues during this time of uncertainty, including the coronavirus pandemic. He made a rap video.
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Santorum
Practitioner:
Dan Savage, The Stranger
Date:
May 1 2003
"The campaign for the neologism "santorum" started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word "santorum"[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's views on homosexuality, and comments about same sex marriage.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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