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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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Prague Civil Society Centre
Prague, CzechiaWe empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.
A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison
HetzJaeger
GermanyA campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
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
Barcelona SpainDissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.
MTA.ME
New York City, NY, USAAt www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
The Wildcard Workbook
New York City, NY, USAThe 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
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoThis is an audio/visual story exploring the sounds of Mexico City’s streets.
Monument Lab
PhiladelphiaMonument 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
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)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 is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.
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.
#defensiveTO
TorontoDocumenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
The Markup made a browser extension that restores search result pages to organic results.
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
New York City, NY, USAA Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
Alt Text as Poetry
New York, NYAn artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web
AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.
Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change
A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.
The Glass Room
SoHo, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAa three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.
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.
Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.
Data Murals
MIT Media LabAfter finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!
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.
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.
Data Zetu Intiaitive
Tanzania, United Republic ofData Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
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.
Data Lanterns
MIT Media Labilluminating local water quality through data performances for collective action
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