Keyword Index
Selected keyword: politics
Work: (W)orld Currency
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork illustrates a global currency through the creative formulation of an equation and a trading algorithm for the currency exchange market. The visionary creation of algorithmic...
Work: Amazon Noir - Hacking Monopolism Trilogy
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "In this project Amazon.com's website was the vulnerable target. We eluded their copyright protections with a sophisticated hack of the "Search Inside" service. We stole complete digital volumes of...
Work: Anti-NATO Day - Participatory Cyber Attacks - STOPtheNATO.org
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This project unfolded around an anti-NATO militarism web portal that was founded in August 2001 and ran until late 2006. The website gained international popularity over the years through covering...
Work: Beyond Manzanar
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Beyond Manzanar is an interactive 3D virtual reality environment, a metaphorical landscape that explores political scapegoating of ethnic populations in times of crisis. The historic experiences of...
Work: Cacophony (Scene 2)
Artist: Michelin, Simone
Comment: Cacophony (3 minutes) weaves historic events in the fields of art and the politics. It nears different situations and it presents them visually from the point-of-view of the media, the spectacle,...
Work: Cartes Postales de l'Arc
Artist: Benayoun, Maurice
Comment: The PERMANENT exhibition of the Arc de Triomphe conceived and directed by Maurice Benayoun and Christophe Girault, architect, is being dismantled to give place to a souvenir shop.
To react to this...
Work: Drowning NYC
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: This fiction informs the audience about rising sea levels due to global warming and how urban populations will cope with it. This experimental form of tactical transmedia fiction was told by actors...
Work: Five Themes
Artist: Kentridge, William
Comment: Combining the political with the poetic, William Kentridge's work has made an indelible mark on the contemporary art scene. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid and colonialism, Kentridge...
Work: Frontiers of Utopia
Artist: Scott, Jill
Comment: In the installation Frontiers of Utopia the visitor is confronted with eight virtual female characters, based on the histories of real women who were born in different periods: 1900, 1930, 1960 and...
Work: Geometries of Power
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: "Geometries of Power" is a multi-user online 3D world that uses
the interactive characteristics of space, geometry and sound
to question concepts of power and control.
Beginning with the blank...
Work: Global Direct
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "Global Direct introduces the idea of direct participation in worldwide governance within the tradition of utopian artistic visions.
The artwork is presented as a visionary political program that...
Work: I.E.D (Improvised Empathetic Device)
Artist: SWAMP
Comment: I.E.D (Improvised Empathetic Device)
The current U.S. led war in Iraq has suffered enormous casualties, where the toll on civilian lives in Iraq is vague and many times unreported. The number of...
Work: Imaginary Museum of Revolutions
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An Imaginary Museum of Revolutions was a proposed multimedia installation to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. The basic concept was to address 200 revolutions from the...
Work: Inherent Rights, Vision Rights
Artist: Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul
Comment: In the virtual-reality "Inherent Rights, Vision Rights" the participant explores a sacred ceremony in a traditional West Coast Native Canadian long house. The long house is occupied by music, fire...
Work: Loophole for All
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork unveiled over 200000 Caymans Islands companies and combined with an aggressive business strategy, it reversed global finance machination for creative subversive agendas. The website...
Work: Newtown Creek (oil spill)
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Newtown Creek is a massively contaminated Superfund site running through the Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. For the AR artwork "Newtown Creek (oil spill)"...
Work: NOMAD: THE RIVER
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Nomad: The River is a 60 minute dance theater work created in collaboration with Chinese born, New York-based choreographer Yin Mei. The work is a haunting evocation of the choreographer's experience...
Work: Open Society Structures - Algorithms Triptych
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This artwork explores the use of algorithm design applied to social structures.
These diagrams propose the idea of planning societal organization like building algorithmic software, which can be...
Work: People Quote People - The Death of the Author 2.0
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "The quotations no longer refer to the correct authors. On the mock website, quotations are continually reordered randomly with different authors, spreading online misquotations as a form of...
Work: Reign of Gold - AR Occupy Wall Street
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The "Reign of Gold" augmented reality artwork surrounds you and your favorite object of protest in a rain of $50 US gold eagle coins. Part of AR Occupy Wall Street, organized by Mark Skwarek.
Work: ReVisioning the Virtual Wall
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: The digital collages (3 shown here by Tamiko Thiel, and 3 others by Teresa Reuter/Sabe Wunsch) show scenographies of the Berlin Wall that are conceived as associative spaces of memories - by mixing...
Work: Seven Portraits for Maria Hernandez
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Maria Hernandez was a Bushwick activist murdered for her fight to free the area of drug use. In 1989 Bushwick Park was renamed “Maria Hernandez Park” to commemorate her memory, but the artist could...
Work: Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: “Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies"
Addresses artists who have been censored by - or due to threats by - high members of the U.S. government. Premiered in 2013 at "Manifest:AR," curator Joseph...
Work: Shades of Absence: Outside Inside
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: "Shades of Absence: Outside Inside" places silhouettes of artists who have been threatened with arrest or physical violence into the closed curatorial space of the Giardini in Venice. Whether these...
Work: Street Ghosts
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: 2012. Inkjet prints on coated paper, dimensions variable.
Life-sized pictures of people found on Google's Street View were printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were...
Work: The Big Plot
Artist: Cirio, Paolo
Comment: "This is a romantic-spy story rendered into the genre of Recombinant Fiction. Four characters told a fiction using dialogues shown on several media channels. The cloned identity of a real spy was...
Work: Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall
Artist: Thiel, Tamiko
Comment: Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall is a virtual reality (VR) artwork, an interactive 3D computer graphic installation that enables users to experience a section of the Berlin Wall in its former...
Work: Winning Hearts and Minds
Artist: Critical Art Ensemble
Comment: War zones are as instructive as they are destructive. Since Vietnam, they have beautifully illustrated the contradiction between capitalism and democracy. They teach the lesson that (false) democracy...