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2016
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Projects tagged "technology"

Abler
Practitioner:
Sara Hendren
Date:
Oct 4 2012
Sara Hendren is an Enabler. Hendren's writing, research, and "knowledge-building" propels conversations of ability and disability in such a way that activates a creative dialogue as well as provides a scholarly basis for cultural critique.
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Now Watch This
Practitioner:
Surveillance Camera Players (SCP)
Date:
Nov 1 1996
The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places.
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Our Bookshelf
Practitioner:
Our Bookshelf
Date:
Mar 27 2012
"Our Bookshelf is a social network where people can share their ebooks as easily as they can share print books. At the moment, most copyrighted ebooks don't allow you to share them. This is because when you buy an ebook you don't own the book the way you own a print book. You own a license to read it on certain devices and most of these licenses prohibit sharing. We plan to create a new license that does
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"Goo Phone" Chinese Company Used Leaked iPhone 5 Specs to Build Knockoff, Hopes to Sue Apple for Patent Infringement
Practitioner:
Goophone Company
Date:
Sep 6 2012
Just the other day, we were hearing about Samsung getting in legal trouble over patent violations with Apple. A federal court decision ruled that Samsung owes Apple more than $1 billion in restitution.
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Murales Imborrables
Practitioner:
Murales Imborrables
Date:
Mar 20 2015
In March this year, less than 100 days since he took office again, Luis Castañeda Lossio, Mayor of Lima, announced that the Municipality would remove the street art murals painted on the walls of downtown Lima’s historical city streets. “Lima has to recover all the architectural quality it has. They have chosen us and we will comply with the obligation that the population has consigned us,” said the mayor.
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Edward Snowden Hologram
Practitioner:
The Illuminator
Date:
Apr 7 2015
NEW YORK — Hours after police removed an illicit bust of Edward Snowden from its perch in a Brooklyn park on Monday, artists replaced it with a hologram. The group of artists — who collectively call themselves "The Illuminator" and are not related to the trio behind the original sculpture — used laptops and projection equipment to cast an image of Snowden in a haze of smoke at the spot where the sculpture once stood.
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cheLA
Practitioner:
Fabian Wagmister
Date:
May 2 2014
Most cheLA activities are organized around a series of workshops, which may act in combination, are designed as areas of aesthetic, technological and theoretical concentration, and structured to promote their development. Its core activities are research and experimentation residences. As participants in the Parque Patricios neighborhood life, within the Federal Capital, are evident human needs.
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Project Catalyst
Practitioner:
Artel Great
Date:
Apr 9 2014
Project Catalyst specializes in designing culturally rich entertainment experiences that re-imagine the empowering possibilities of cinema and media from a multicultural perspective. Project Catalyst exemplifies the efficacy and essential value of art and cinema at the intersections of social justice and the modern technologies of everyday life.
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Occu-bot
Practitioner:
Taeyoon Choi
Date:
Dec 21 2011
Occu-bot can protest in places that human civil disobedience is not allowed, and it can also replace human protesters.
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Reversing the Lens: Sexual Harrassment Victim uses social media, leads to harasser's arrest
Practitioner:
Thao Nguyen, Hollaback!
Date:
Aug 20 2005
 A young woman named Thao Nguyen was riding the R train in NYC when a man sitting across from began to masturbate.
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Hologram Protest
Practitioner:
Holograms for Freedom
Date:
Apr 10 2015
Late last year the Spanish government passed a law that set extreme fines for protesters convening outside of government buildings. In response to the controversial Citizen Safety Law, which will take effect on July 1, Spanish activists have staged the world's first ever virtual political demonstration.
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ABILITY Lab at NYU
Practitioner:
New York University
Date:
May 26 2015
The ABILITY Lab is an interdisciplinary research space dedicated to the development of adaptive and assistive technologies. The Lab is open to NYU students and faculty of all fields looking to create inclusive systems, design human-centered projects, and further intellectual and clinical research around areas of ability.
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The Realist
Practitioner:
Asaf Hanuka
Date:
Feb 27 2015
Asaf Hanuka is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Tel Aviv, Israel. His illustrations span the themes of technology, revolution, war, Judaism, and depictions of family life and the individual in modern day society.
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