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The Art of Being in Danger
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 ...
Green Cross
Inspired by ideas set forth by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International hopes that a paradigm shift in social attitudes and values will lead to a more sustainable and peaceful global ...
Surveillance Art
Concerned about the proliferation of security cameras over the course of the 1990s, a group of artists formed the Surveillance Camera Playersto protest the erosion of privacy. The troupe works to ...
Punditry, a Spectrum Thereof
Lying in Ponds tries to quantify political writing by rating popular authors and analysts according to the tone and context in which they use key terms. Staff members download columns ...
The Way of the Gun
The cover of the September/October 2007 issue of Good Magazine bore the image of an AK-47--a symbol of good design as well as a socio-political icon--and asked the question: "Is ...
Documenting Abuse
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has used satellite images to document human rights abuses in Burma--renamed Myanmar by military dictators after the bloody suppression of ...
Composite Portrait
The first anniversary issue of Good Magazine includes a graphic representation of the political power held by women throughout the world. "Girl Power" presents the information in an ...
Blogging the Wasteland
Worst Places in the World combines Google Earth images with well-researched, insightful commentary on some of the globe's most unpleasant issues. The site documents environmental racism, conflict, and the spread ...
Mapping Fatalities
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities plots the location and dates of coalition deaths from March 2003 through late winter 2007. To plot the fatalities temporally as well as spatially, a Flash animation ...
Borderlands
Dozens of disposable cameras--each with a flash and enough film for twenty-seven pictures--became the tools the Border Film Project used to explore life along the US-Mexico border and the ...
Mapping the Maze that is Political Contributions
Political contributions can get very confusing. Although required to make their funding public, it can seem as though the government and parties try to make it as hard to understand ...
Documenting Change
Working closely with grassroots organizations, the Panos Institute's Oral Testimony Programme has created a website that explores the effects of development in rural mountain areas. The Mountain Voices site transcribes oral histories from ...
Multimedia Memorial for the Mountains
The North Carolina-based advocacy group Appalachian Voices and several other environmental groups have created an archive of photos, satellite images, articles, and interviews exploring the impact of large ...
[graph-watch] All the President’s Graphs
The Wall Street Journal has a nice graph selection taking a look at U.S. presidents' job-approval ratings. The site showcases the average approval ratings over time of modern ...