Projects tagged "participation"

The Participatory Condition
Practitioner:
Media@McGill, N. Katherine Hayles, Bernard Stiegler, Kate Crawford, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Geert Lovink, T. L. Taylor, Jillian York, Christopher Soghoian
Date:
Nov 15 2013
Media@McGill will be hosting The Participatory Condition, an International Colloquium, which will be held in Montreal at the Musée d’art contemporain (MAC) on November 15 and 16, 2013. The Colloquium’s main objective is to assess the role of media in the development of a principle whose expansion has become so large as to become the condition of our contemporaneity.
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175 HECTARS
Practitioner:
community
Date:
Jan 27 2013
On 27th January 2013, the participatory project titled 175 hectares has run through the streets of the city of Trento (Italy). All the community has traced a line of white chalk that measures 6.3 km and the area included was 175 hectares: the exact surface area of the extermination camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II, Poland).
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An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
May 12 2015
An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective by Steff Yotka
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The Confined Hearts Project
Practitioner:
Penny Ryan, 400 heartmakers
Date:
Sep 28 2016
The Confined Hearts Project is creating 1468 terracotta anatomical human hearts, one for each person seeking asylum in Australia but being held in detention on Manus Island and in Nauru. Hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures have been involved in making the hearts to date.
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Real Democracy Australia - Viral Participatory Poster Project.
Practitioner:
Carl Scrase in collaboration with Real Democracy Australia
Date:
Feb 24 2013
Do we need to crowdsource a new Australian Constitution? Does anything matter more than the environment? Should Australia become a republic with an Australian head of state? Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Controversial artist Carl Scrase is asking these questions in a new project that mixes street art posters with political activism and aims to go viral through social media.
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