Fritz Haeg is unleashing an attack on the American lawn, this “carpet of conformity.” Over the next three […]
Category Archive: activism
Burn Station is a mobile self-service for searching, listening to and copying music and audio files with no […]
The Homeland Security Advisory System is a color-coded terrorism threat advisory scale. The different levels trigger specific actions […]
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Airport Insecurity is out. This game to be played on Java-capable mobile phones deals with inconvenience and the […]
Troika (remember the SMS Guerrilla Projector, DataSound and Electroprobe?) is back with a new website and some pretty […]
Hybrid House is a monumental architectural structure that incorporates building elements from the temporary architecture of Caracas, West […]
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(Re)design your very own label for one of your favourite products! In 3 simple steps. Shilpa Gupta’s M.O.L. […]
The Gun Control Alliance is committed to enhancing public safety by reducing the number of guns in South […]
Yomango (“I steal” in Spanish slang) promotes shoplifting as a form of civil disobedience and survival technique. The […]
Soviet Unterzögersdorf is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR. The enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with […]
After having spotted a new series of stamps devoted to American scientists, the guys at Stay Free! Daily […]
Urban Nomad Shelter’s vivid colours and biomorphic forms contradict a stereotype of cardboard-box vagrancy. It was conceived as […]
The N55 ROCKET SYSTEM enables anyone to communicate their protest in a concrete way. This low tech, low […]
Trans-Siberian Radio is a low-power FM station that will operate on the train from Moscow to Beijing via […]
Yesterday I stopped at the Fondazione Bevilacqua in Venice (just behind the pigeon-infested Piazza San Marco) to see […]
The caste system still exists in India, Dalits is another name for untouchables. Every thirty minutes a Dalit […]
Natalie Jeremijenko‘s Ooz project is an experiment in “interspecies communication.” Like a zoo, Ooz is a series of […]
Super Kid Fighter, by the Critical Art Ensemble and the Carbon Defense League, is based on the premise […]
spring_alpha is a free software sim-society game based on drawings by Chad McCail which narrates a community’s attempt […]
The Funkenschnorkel (corrupted German, adapted from “broadcasting snorkel”), by Andrew Zoz Brooks, is a backpack loudspeaker system for […]
Fallen Fruit is project about mapping of all the “public fruit” planted on private property that overhangs public […]
State Machine, by Ben Cerveny and Max Carlson, is a very clever flash-based dynamic visualization of the relationship […]
The Gender Anarchy Project breaks down assumptions of gender. The sign on the bathroom doors is replaced by […]
The mayor of Boxtel, the municipality where the Dutch outdoor hacker conferences What The Hack resides, seems to […]
Paula Levine’s Baghdad San Francisco imagines the effects upon San Francisco, had the bombs which fell on Baghdad […]
Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI), by Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico, is a web project which aims to […]
In Los Angeles, Heavy Trash, a coalition of anonymous architects, designers and urban planners, have erected orange viewing […]
You Are Beautiful is a meme-type sticker and installation art project that tries to create moments of positive […]
Lawyers representing Wal-Mart have used a cease and desist order (PDF of it) to force a website ran […]
A virtual discovery of Copenhagen in the footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen has been hacked, possibly by gay-activists. […]
Off Grid is devoted to the margins of urban culture: graffiti, gangs, consumer excess, detritus, and street interventions. […]
Blowhard is a game, created by Ryan Schoelerman and Sky Frostenson, in which two players compete by breathing […]
Swedish artists Erik Sandelin & Magnus Torstensson of unsworn, have created what they call a Breather. This solar-powered […]
The aim of the TROIA -Temporary Residence of Intelligent Agents- project is to focus public awareness and discussion […]
In response to illegal logging activity in California’s threatened redwood forests, the Center for Tactical Magic has designed […]
The Styx Valley Protest Structure is a project by Andrew Maynard to attempt to save the Styx Valley […]
South London based art activists CutUp tries to disrupt and raise awareness of the colonisation of public space […]
Packard Jenning ‘s Il Duce Action Figure involves both the insertion of a hand-made Benito Mussolini doll into […]
Freddie Robins subverts the medium of “knitting”, an activity often perceived as feminine, comfortable and non-threatening, to explore […]
Back in December, Francis Hwang offered the Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition up for auction on […]