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2016
CaroTimm

ArtAct2016 4 Favorite 

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

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Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugs
Practitioner
Partnership for Drug-free Kids
Date
Jul 16 2015

The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing substance abuse among adolescents, launched a new multimedia campaign for teens that uses emojis to communicate the challenges of negative influences, empowering them to live Above the Influence.

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Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building
Practitioner
Oceanic Preservation Society
Date
Jul 31 2015

In July 2015, the Empire State Building's famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected onto the building.

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Bit Rosie
Practitioner
Bit Rosie, Adele Fournet
Date
Mar 11 2016

Bit Rosie showcases female music producers in high quality performance videos and short documentaries. Our videos and digital archive project with the New York University library document the work of women using music technology to make sounds across genres and locales.

Bit Rosie is directed and produced by Adele Fournet.
http://www.adelefournet.com/

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Injustice
Practitioner
Jaehee Cho (Director); Atit Kothari (Producer); Zixu Ding (Programmer); Stephanie Fawaz (Writer); Yeongmin Won (Artist); Tiffa Cheng (Artist)
Date
Apr 16 2016

Injustice is an interactive VR experience themed around racially motivated police brutality. Guests witness an act of racial discrimination in front of them, forcing them to make moral and ethical decisions on the spot. Injustice is an experience aimed at exploring the emotional impact of VR space vs. traditional film.

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Pothole Activism
Practitioner
Baadal Nanjundaswamy
Date
Jun 20 2015

Baadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore.

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Stop Sign Takeover
Practitioner
Daku
Date
May 20 2014

Daku is an Indian graffiti artist that engages in street art with political and social meaning. Little else is known about the elusive artist, due to the illegal nature of his work. The name "Daku" literally translates to bandit or dacoit in Hindi.

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16 Activists and Organisations Working Online To Stop Violence Against Women
Practitioner
Activists and Organisations
Date
Dec 8 2015

With the 21st century in full swing, the internet has become an integral part of everyday life for much for the world. From shopping to social lives, we have become increasingly reliant on the internet to get things done, as well as to communicate with other people. The younger generations, starting with Millenials, have never grown up in a world without the internet.

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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Practitioner
women
Date
Mar 11 2016

A group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most of the way, meeting people, holding street meetings and telling people why the Rampal coal plant shouldn’t be built in the Sundarbans.

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The Girl Effect
Practitioner
girlseffect.org
Date
Apr 5 2015

The Girl Effect 2010 video "The Clock is Ticking" receives premiere at Clinton Global Initiative
• "The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking" video shown to world leaders at the Girls and Women opening plenary of CGI, Tuesday 21 September
• Video highlights need for urgency: reach a girl before she reaches the age of 12 and stop poverty before it starts

Background:

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HeForShe
Practitioner
UN Women
Date
Sep 20 2014

HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights, by encouraging them to take action against negative inequalities faced by women and girls.

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Real Beauty Sketches
Practitioner
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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Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
Practitioner
Nanjing Municipal Government
Date
Dec 13 1985

Nanjing, a picturesque city lying by the Yangtze River, owes its fame to its favorable geographic position, galaxy of talents and profound historical background. Having served as the capital of ten dynasties in ancient China, its splendour has remained and even enlarged with an extended population up to 600,000 when the government of the Republic of China set up its capital there in 1927.

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