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Art can help you to navigate a particular problem, reflect, analyze and find inspiration. This category presents some artistic examples, exhibits and creative works that show how technology could be used to promote change.

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Synthetic Memories

Synthetic Memories

Barcelona, Spain

an initiative aimed at recovering lost or undocumented visual memories using AI image generation.

Domestic Data Streamers

Domestic Data Streamers

Carrer Papin 33, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

We are a research and design studio partnering up with organisations to build change through data, community, and arts.

Democracy Fitness

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

CyberVisuals

CyberVisuals

Berkeley, California, USA

Free images that visualize our most pressing cybersecurity challenges and how we can solve them together.

Harness

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

Missing Matoaka

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

The Climate Realism Exhibition

The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.

Platform

Platform

London

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

Unboxed City

Unboxed City

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

Nonprofit AF

Nonprofit AF

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Exploring the fun and frustrations of nonprofit work

PROTESTORY!

PROTESTORY!

Germany (Deutschland)

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

eআরকি (Earki)

eআরকি (Earki)

Bangladesh (Bānglādesh / বাংলাদেশ)

The most popular entertaining gag site in Bangladesh

Prague Civil Society Centre

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

Freedom Grams

A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison

HetzJaeger

HetzJaeger

Germany (Deutschland)

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

Critical Infrastructure Lab

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

Bitlab Barcelona

Bitlab Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Dissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.

MTA.ME

MTA.ME

New York City, NY, USA

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

Legislative Theater

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

The Wildcard Workbook

The Wildcard Workbook

758 8th Ave Suite 300, New York, NY 10036

The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work!

The Sounds of CDMX

The Sounds of CDMX

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

This is an audio/visual story exploring the sounds of Mexico City’s streets.

Monument Lab

Monument Lab

Philadelphia

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. We cultivate and facilitate critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.

The Empower Rangers

The Empower Rangers

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The Empower Rangers es una creación animada pensada y ejecutada por RedesAyuda y el primero, de un grupo de ellos, es el Empower Ranger Azul.

What the Future Wants

What the Future Wants

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

#defensiveTO

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

White Collar Crime Risk Zones

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

Alt Text as Poetry

Alt Text as Poetry

New York City

An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web

Alethea.ai

Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change

AI and the Cognitive Trap

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

A Legislative Theater for 25 Years of Cross-Sector Cooperation

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

Data as Culture

Data as Culture

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

The Open Datat Institute's art programme

Data Lanterns

Data Lanterns

MIT Media Lab

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

The Glass Room

The Glass Room

SoHo, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.

BriteHeart

BriteHeart

41 Peabody Street, Nashville, TN

BriteHeart's mission is to ENGAGE, CONNECT and EMPOWER citizens for positive change through ARTIVISM. #getcivic

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble

New York City

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

Data Murals

Data Murals

MIT Media Lab

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

Center For Political Beauty

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

Conversations with Bina

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

The Yes Men

We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.

Pollution Explorers

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

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