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2016
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ArtAct2016 3 Favorite 

This is a gallery featuring posts by the students in Activist Art and Creative Activism at NYU, Spring 2016

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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Practitioner
Minds.com
Date
Jan 27 2016

In the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S.

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Spec Ops: The Line
Practitioner
Walt Williams; Richard Pearsey
Date
Jun 26 2012

Often in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they are aliens that have no resemblance to humans save for a general humanoid form.

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Above and Beyond Memorial
Practitioner
Numerous artists and veterans Linden Allen, Rich Wharton, Francisco Martinez, Nate Jungheim and Ron Blasen.
Date
Jan 25 2016

"The massive "Above and Beyond Memorial" will be installed at the National Veterans Art Museum, The Harold Washington Library, and go on display starting Feb. 20, culminating a painstaking search to find a suitable — although temporary — home for the 58,000 replica dog tags honoring those who died as a result of their service in the war that stretched from March 1965 to May 1975.

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No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.
Practitioner
Daniel Arzola
Date
Oct 1 2013

Daniel Arzola, a digital artist and activist originally from Maracay, Venezuela, began his series, 'No Soy Tu Chiste' ('I Am Not A Joke') in 2013 intent on combating the stereotypes and cruelty so often facing LGBT identifiers; youth in particular. The project went viral in 2014, around the same time it teamed up with the It Gets Better Project based in the United States.

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Las hijas de Violencia
Practitioner
Las hijas de Violencia
Date
Jan 1 2016

Born as a side project Las hijas de Violencia approaches the subject of street harassment and gender based violence through performance art, punk and video that is addressing socially legitimized male violence. "As actresses and as women we feel directly affected and consider it urgent to address the real cause of the problem: its ideological nature.

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That Time Art and Activism Met in Antarctica
Practitioner
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Date
Jan 25 2016

With a grand total of 0 permanent residents and an average winter temperature of --56.2°F, Antarctica is a bit more than your average “no man’s land.” This didn’t deter artist duo Lucy + Jorge Orta, however, who took an expedition to the territory in 2007 on commission from The End of the World Biennale. Nine years later, the duo’s cumulative work created during the program is finally on display in NYC at Jane Lombard Gallery.

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Burkaphilia
Practitioner
Behnaz Babazadeh
Date
Jun 1 2012

When Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d grown used to wearing as part of her school uniform in her old home.

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Chats About Change: The Intersection of Art and Activism
Practitioner
Chats About Change
Date
Jan 15 2015

Los Angeles is at a critical moment when it comes to art. Not because it's "underappreciated as a world art center" as The New York Times informed us in 2011. Or because it's a "burgeoning art capital" as The New York Times revised in 2014. No, it's because L.A. has actually moved past the "up-and-coming" stage into a fully integrated part of the art world.

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"The shoes are marching for us"
Practitioner
avaaz
Date
Nov 29 2015

A 7-year-old's sneakers. An accountant's slippers. Gold heels with spikes and a piece of paper carrying a message: "Invest in renewable (energy) ... now."

Thousands of shoes stood in silent protest on Sunday in Paris.

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#1000BlackGirlBooks
Practitioner
Marley Dias
Date
Jan 25 2016

From Jezebel:

Marley Dias is an 11-year-old New Jersey resident who’s rounding up children’s books that feature black female leads so that she and her peers have more fictional characters to look up to.

The project, titled #1000BlackGirlBooks, started when Marley complained to her mother about reading too many books about white male protagonists in school.

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You’d Better Watch Your Step In Madrid
Practitioner
Luzinterruptus
Date
Feb 20 2015

Luzinterruptus turns their art activism towards the overabundance of dog doo littering the city’s streets.

The studio inflated 500 poop-scoopin' plastic bags and placed a lightbulb inside each one.

Installation lasted nine hours.

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Play Smart 2010
Practitioner
Aaron Cobbett, inkedKenny, Greg Mitchell, Slava Mogutin, John Chaich.
Date
Feb 1 2010

Play Smart a series of yearly events where photographers and designers are gathered and designed cards to trade. It has lasted from 2010 to this year. Play Smart 2010 is the first in the series. In 2010, Play Smart featured photographers Aaron Cobbett, inkedKenny, Greg Mitchell and Slava Mogutin and was designed by John Chaich.

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