Breaking Borders: Google Celebrates Freedom Of Expression
Google has introduced the Breaking Borders Awards, honoring outstanding web projects by individuals or groups who have shown courage, energy and resourcefulness in using the Internet to promote freedom of expression and democracy.
They announced a plan to work with NGO Global Voices and with Thomson Reuters as part of the Breaking Borders ...
A last minute gift guide for artists, activists and the crazy folks who love them
For those of us who still have holiday gifts to purchase — and let’s face it slackers, that’s most of us — here’s our last minute gift guide for your politically inclined, arts-loving friends and family. Of course, some gifts here are also well-suited for those people us pinko commie types have yet to brainwash with our liberal, freedom-hating propaganda. You never know, you may even catch Glenn Beck questioning his convictions after watching the right documentary.
Paper Politics profiles activist printmaking
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today is a major collection of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking. This full color book showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation.
Political Power of Data Visualization
Breezy, enjoyable 20 minute talk on competing infographics in the US health care debate, as well as a few graphical tricks and traps.
One of the mottos for ‘If You Lived Here…’(a quotation from urbanist Peter Marcuse)Design: Julia Born & Laurenz BrunnerCasco
Office for Art, Design and Theory
January 17 – March 14, 2010
Casco’s first project in the year in which it celebrates its 20th anniversary looks back at a project that took place 20 years ago on another continent. Organized as part of our year-long programme ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’, Casco’s contribution to Utrecht Manifest–Biennial for Social Design, this signals another step in exploring how critical art, design and cultural practice affect society. Read Full Article
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Curated by Régine Debatty
Régine Debatty writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on her blog we-make-money-not-art.com.
She also contributes to various design and art magazines, curates art shows and lectures internationally.
