Activist Art – Femmetech

Queer & Radical Cataloging Conferences

March 31, 2014April 4, 2018 by femmetech

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I'll be speaking about the Interference Archive, disruptive cataloging, and open-source technologies that work with activist organizing tactics at two events in the coming weeks: April 4, 2014: Queer Internet Studies Workshop [registration is now closed] Hadassah Damien will be speaking about the organization of Interference Archive and our…

Reuse, Repurposing, and Capitalizing on Raised Fist images

January 5, 2014January 21, 2014 by femmetech

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TODAY's FISTS: Boss Revolution | Underdogs As raised fist images are used over more decades and with a broader variety of political meanings, the attentive viewer notices this icon used for advertising and marketing purposes that may seem to dilute or complicate the original political intentions for which this image…

Pedagogy: What in Art Makes Change

November 23, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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My BIG QUESTION is: how do arts-based cultural works effect change? And the inverse of that is: what is missing in the understanding of the effectiveness of participatory, relational, or socially-engaged art when we want to find cultural resistance within it? What other ways can we think about â€œeffectivenessâ€ or…

Insurgency and Anarchafeminism

November 20, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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Â Basically my life is totally great because I decided to make it my part-time job to study how people are collectively, creatively rebellious. Again, this means I look at participatory extralegal systems like socially-engaged, guerilla and performance art, tactical media, forms of DIY/DIWO production cultures, copyleft, and pop-ed. One of…

Tactical Media and Disturbance Art

November 17, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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â€œThe shift in revolutionary investments corresponds with a shift in the nature of power, which has removed itself from the streets and become nomadic." -- Critical Art Ensemble artist-tacticians, Qud in Rita Raleyâ€™s Tactical Media. Tactical Media Enter tactical media, a resistant form of cultural production that uses networked intelligence…

Makers: Actors, Artists, â€¦ Users

November 5, 2012January 3, 2014 by femmetech

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Who makes activist/political arts? The individuals and groups who make this kind of cultural production are primarily: movement actors [e.g. activists] within the communities meant to experience and co-create the work; artists, cultural activists, tool-having professionals, also often from within the discourse communities. These groups are far from mutually exclusive…

Activist Art & Participatory Art

November 3, 2012April 15, 2016 by femmetech

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[caption id="attachment_33" align="alignleft" width="198"] People's Park sign, late 1960s, S.F.[/caption] What Weâ€™re Looking For The first place I began researching was in and around the concepts of â€œactivist artâ€ and â€œpolitical art,â€ both of which are colloquial terms that I hear and use regularly. Â I was hoping to find a…