Projects tagged "online"

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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Petition against John Galliano's Class
Practitioner:
Parsons-New School Students
Date:
Apr 25 2013
Fashion designer and former head designer of Dior, John Galliano, in the past few years has failed to rise to his former glory in fashion. In 2011, a videotape of John Galliano shouting anti-semitic statements went viral, thus leading to his dismissal at Dior and the irreparable defamation of his fashion career.
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Caged Bird Songs and Other Stories
Practitioner:
Creativity & Change 2020
Date:
May 15 2020
Caged Bird Songs ‘his wings are clipped and his feet are tied’
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OUTRAGE: Artists Respond to the Election of Donald Trump
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Dec 17 2016
“OUTRAGE: Artists Respond to the Election of Donald Trump” an online exhibition of art work by 20 artistshttps://sites.google.com/site/outrageartistsrespondtotrump/ Art Hazelwood, Aileen Bassis, Patricia Dahlman, Donna Coleman, Anne Dushanko Dobek,
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Greenpeace asks Nestle to Have a Break
Practitioner:
Greenpeace USA
Date:
Mar 17 2010
Greenpeace released a video to spread the word that Nestle, the maker of Kit Kat, was using palm oil purchased from companies that are destroying the Indonesian rainforest and pushing orangutans towards extinction. The video, which features a guy opening a Kit Kat at work, pulling out an orangutan finger and taking a bite, shocked hundreds of thousands of viewers. The Greenpeace campaign against Nestle was a success.
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LEGOVC
Practitioner:
iancooketal
Date:
Feb 22 2018
LEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, 'pantomime villain' Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is slashed.
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The Online Game that Plants Real Seeds: Rainmaker Project
Practitioner:
Michelle Moriyasu
Date:
Nov 14 2013
By Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
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#NotYourAsianSidekick
Practitioner:
Suey Park
Date:
Dec 16 2013
Suey Park (@suey_park) is the 23-year-old freelance writer and organizer behind the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which quickly became a trending topic on Twitter Monday with thousands of Asian American women and others from around the world adding their 140 characters to the conversation on Asian American feminism.
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 3 2020
“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election”
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ScareMail
Practitioner:
Benjamin Grosser
Date:
Jan 1 2013
ScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This “story” acts as a trap for NSA programs like PRISM and XKeyscore, forcing them to look at nonsense.
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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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