Artistic interventions
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.
Prague Civil Society Centre
We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.
HetzJaeger
A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content
Freedom Grams
A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison
Critical Infrastructure Lab
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
Dissenyem, coordinem i implementem projectes d’innovació al territori i amb retorn social.
MTA.ME
At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.
Legislative Theater
In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.
The Wildcard Workbook
The 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
This is an audio/visual story exploring the sounds of Mexico City’s streets.
Monument Lab
Monument 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.
Power Play: An HistorioGraphic about Womxn and Urban Renewal by Okki Berendschot
by Okki Berendschot
The Empower Rangers
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
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.
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.
Simple Search
The Markup made a browser extension that restores search result pages to organic results.
#defensiveTO
Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
White Collar Crime Risk Zones
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.
Alt Text as Poetry
An artistic project to bring poetic composition to accessible alt text on the web
AI and the Cognitive Trap
AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.
Legislative Theater with the Residents of Mulhouse, France
A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.
A Legislative Theater for 25 Years of Cross-Sector Cooperation
A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.
Data as Culture
The Open Datat Institute's art programme
The Glass Room
a three week pop up program inducing over 30 commissioned artworks, and a jam packed program of guest speakers.
The Yes Men
We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.
Data Zetu Intiaitive
Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.
Doxbox Trustbot
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 ef...
Pollution Explorers
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 technol...
BriteHeart
BriteHeart's mission is to ENGAGE, CONNECT and EMPOWER citizens for positive change through ARTIVISM. #getcivic
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
This Place Will Be Water
Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.
Transfer Gallery
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
Conversations with Bina
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, r...
Center For Political Beauty
An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.
Data Lanterns
illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action
Data Murals
After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!
Beautiful Trouble
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 w...