Projects tagged "Science & Technology"

Molson’s newest red beer fridge touts Canada’s multicultural side
Practitioner:
Molson Canadian and Google
Date:
Jun 25 2015
The Globe and Mail Inc. Written by SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING REPORTER TORONTO PUBLISHED JUNE 25, 2015 UPDATED MARCH 25, 2017 This is one persnickety refrigerator. Molson Coors Brewing Co.'s newest instalment of a now two-year campaign is attempting a new take on national pride in time for Canada Day.
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The Ferengi Plan (AKA How to Throttle the FCC to Dial Up Modem Speeds)
Practitioner:
Neocities, Kyle Drake
Date:
May 9 2014
On May 9th, 2014, NeoCities.org, installed measures designed to slow the bandwidth of the FCC's IP addresses on Neocities' homepage, throttling their bandwidth down to 28.8kbps modem speeds (the same speed as dial up). NeoCities has demanded a $1000 "ransom" to return the FCC's IP addresses back to normal operating speeds.
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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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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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Smog Ring - Pollution Transformed into Art
Practitioner:
Daan Roosegaarde
Date:
Jan 1 2014
“A Foreigner Makes Beijing’s Smog into Rings” has become a tittle used by a multitude of popular public accounts on Wechat, the most commonly used chatting app in China, which makes more and more Chinese netizens know the story of Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and “social designer”, who has been making effort to combine the energy saving technology with visually enjoyable art.
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Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional Vote
Practitioner:
California Department of Corrections (CDC)
Date:
Jul 23 2013
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to defend the domestic spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA). On July 23, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged a billboard at Bayshore Boulevard near Sunnydale Avenue in San Francisco. The CDC released the corrected ad one day before a U.S.
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Black Lives Matter to Gaming
Practitioner:
BLM protestors
Date:
Aug 7 2020
During the pandemic of Covid protestors have found many different ways in which they can express themselves. Some examples of which are the BLM rallies that took place in the video game The Sims to the China / Hong Kong protests in Animal Crossing. During the period of time where street protests against anti-black racism was rampant around the world, Animal Crossing players were taking their own stand against racism.
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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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Threads of Resistance
Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance
Date:
Jul 15 2017
A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the nearly 560 pieces submitted for jurying, are shown on our website.
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Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
Practitioner:
Jacques Servin
Date:
Dec 15 1996
Upon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character.
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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change
Practitioner:
Martin Gropius Bau
Date:
Jul 1 2020
Amongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to lower the carbon footprint and better the sustainable practices of the theatre and cultural sector at large.
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Add Privacy for £35
Practitioner:
Harry McGill
Date:
May 23 2016
In the UK, the secretary of state Theresa May is attempting to pass a new investigatory draft bill that would essentially rid all British citizens of the right to privacy and security on the internet. Internet providers will be required to maintain user's browser history for 12 months amongst other things. In light of these revelations, it seems privacy will no longer be a basic human right, but an add-on option to our internet services.
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Ostrich
Practitioner:
IOANA (Ioana Urma)
Date:
Jul 27 2013
This interactive, site-specific project is a comment on how we - constantly attached to mobile devices - neglect to observe the environment around us. Like ostriches, we willingly trap our heads, minds, and imagination in a fantasy world that is detached from reality. Three colorful fabric tunnels span a man-made grove of Elm trees in downtown Boston, defining an intimate courtyard where nature clashes with cartoonish representation.
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Inside Out Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Mar 2 2011
After winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces. Through their “Actions,” communities around the world have sparked collaborations and conversations.
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Security-1998 Hacked CANTV database
Practitioner:
Yucef Mehri
Date:
Aug 17 1999
In 1998 Hacker-Poet-Artist Yucef Mehri breached the security of CANTV at the time the largest telecommunications company in Venezuela. He was able to access the personal data kept by the company which contained the names, addresses, phone numbers, working places, and even checking accounts, credit cards, and expiration dates of it's customers.
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Critical Engeneering Manifesto
Practitioner:
Julian Oliver
Date:
Oct 23 2011
 The Critical Engineering ManifestoThe Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence.
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Shmoogle
Practitioner:
Missdata
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Shmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google's results but in random order. In one click Shmoogle instantly neutralizes the PageRank hierarchy and the whole SEO industry induced by it. Missdata, questions the implications and significance of the digital paradigm in which we live. She proposes different alternatives to daily digital tools.
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Web sites go dark in SOPA protest against plans to ban online piracy
Practitioner:
Wikimedia, Google, Reddit, Craigslist, etc
Date:
Jan 18 2013
By Hayley Tsukayama, Published: January 18, 2012 Web users woke up this morning to find that, as promised, several prominent Web sites had gone dark or put up messages asking visitors to contact their members of Congress to vote against two online piracy measures: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.
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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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Bug Splat
Practitioner:
Bug Splat Project
Date:
Apr 12 2014
A giant art installation targets predator drone operators In military slang, Predator drone operators often refer to kills as ‘bug splats’, since viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed.
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Intrabody Wireless Network
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch
Date:
Mar 13 2023
"Intrabody Wireless Network" is a show of eighteen drawings and collages by Dmitry Borshch, in which he shows the architecture of such networks, their components referred to as nanomachines (biological, physical, chemical sensors, routers, antennas, interface devices), options for communicating (molecular, electromagnetic – in the terahertz band, acoustic, nanomechanical), and this type of network's applications (human, plant, industrial)
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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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Bat Cloud
Practitioner:
Joyce Hwang
Date:
May 1 2012
A dark cloud hovers above a stand of Eastern cottonwood trees in Tifft Nature Preserve, a 264-acre woodland nature refuge on Lake Erie. But this is no ordinary cloud; it is a high-tech habitat for one of the world’s most misunderstood species—bats.
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Play Safe
Practitioner:
Eddie Einbinder
Date:
Jan 1 2012
Play Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted at the International Harm Reduction conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2013.
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Edward Snowden bust
Practitioner:
Anonymous trio of artists, Illuminator Art Collective
Date:
Apr 6 2015
While most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday April 6. They fused it to part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary War soldiers. By later that day, officials had removed the bust. But then a group called The Illuminator art collective replaced the missing bust with a hologram projection of Snowden.
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