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November 2, 2010
Get Your Farmy Fall Frack On!
Agri-artists, urban farmers, data visualizers, designers, radical cartographers, performers, waterpodders, activist geographers, and YOU in a veggie-oil powered bus. Join us as we drive upstate to the beautiful Delaware River Valley on the NY/PA border to visit local farms that are fighting hydrofracking in their...
August 20, 2010
New Fall Programming Series
August 24 - November 28, 2010 Global urbanism is one of the most significant trends of this century. For the first time, a majority of people on the planet now live in cities. As populations shift to urban centers, space – which is already at a...
July 8, 2010
Participationism and the Limits of Collaboration
How are artists and activists navigating the participation paradigm, mapping the limits of collaboration, and modeling participatory forms of critical engagement?...
May 14, 2010
The Limits of Collaboration
The fantasy of participation is a powerful one, postulating, as it does, the invitation and inclusion of everyone, everywhere....
June 24, 2009
Clay Shirky Talk on Open Source, Activism, and Creative Practice
On June 18, 2009 internet theorist and author Clay Shirky joined us for a talk on the concepts of fork and failure in the open source process, particularly in the context of activism and creative practice. This event was part of the monthly Upgrade New...
June 21, 2009
Video from “Subversive Tech in Burma” Event
"Subversive Tech and Burma's Struggle for Democracy" involved a presentation by Digital Democracy on the use of technology inside and along Burma's borders, footage from the Sept 2007 Saffron Revolution, where mobile phones and the internet allowed protesters to coordinate and publicize the largest protests...