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Glossing the Text

Posted on June 18th by Shae Davidson.
Over the course of the 1990s pundits declared that the internet would open new paths for debate, discussion, and participatory democracy--heralding a new wave of community development, a revival of ...

Going Public

Posted on March 19th by Shae Davidson.
Inspired by the same interface and knowledge-sharing model as Wikipedia, Wikileaks plans to provide an uncensorable, anonymous forum for sharing information about corrupt or immoral actions in the public realm.  Wikileaks will ...

Rights Videos

Posted on February 15th by Shae Davidson.
Responding to the ability of film to capture the experiences of abuse survivors and the videotaped beating of Rodney King in the early 1990s, musician Peter Gabriel created More →
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The Art of Being in Danger

Posted on January 18th by Shae Davidson.
A few years ago, a public art project by the Belgian Royal Academy Dendermonde Against Racism (RADAR) challenged people to reconsider the ways in which they viewed poverty and  ...

Post Industrial Art

Posted on October 29th by Shae Davidson.
  The bleak beauty of the industrial landscape held a strange appeal for William Carlos Williams, who praised the gritty diversity of buildings overshadowed by factories and found aesthetic value in smokestacks.  The ...
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user-generated art

Posted on October 19th by Leonardo Bonanni.
rudolf stingel makes installations out by covering the walls of a gallery with panels of celotex tuff-R, an insulated foil-covered foam that invited visitors to scratch, gouge, rip ...
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improvisation

Posted on October 8th by Leonardo Bonanni.
open-source design promises a lot of invention but has the trouble motivating a lot of people to contribute design work. but one kind of distributed design is flourishing: improvised explosive ...