This post seems a little bit like a cheat – I am reproducing a list of links provided by the amazing innovation lab team for us in studio “2 or more”. Still – if I hadn’t been there I would so wish for someone to share these links with me. So here we go:
Some context
Our challenge for week 3 and 4 is posed by the provost of Morehouse College, Kai Campbell:
In the face of tragic events like the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012, Ferguson in 2014 and Charlston this year we are asked to create an exhibition that engages its visitors in questions of identity, race, policing, violence and community.
The basics to start with – by innovation lab leader Lilly Preston:
Portside Article – public space, urban renewal:
http://portside.org/2015-07-18/urban-renewal-public-space-and-growing-social-divide
NYMag Article from last week on Ta-Nehisi Coates:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/ta-nehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me.html
Ta-Nehisi on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/tags/126918976/ta-nehisi-coates
Broader NPR stories, conversations about race:
http://www.npr.org/sections/race/
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/04/24/401214280/uncomfortable-conversations-talking-about-race-in-the-classroom
Great compiliation by “2 or more” studio leader Sarah Rothberg
contextual video projects
http://fusion.net/video/27964/how-ferguson-showed-us-the-truth-about-police/
https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism
project reference (not all necessarily race related, but could be inspiring in terms of form)
http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed
paul rucker’s rewind
https://news.artnet.com/people/paul-rucker-baltimore-racisms-legacy-295287
https://news.artnet.com/in-brief/hands-flux-factory-installation-simulates-police-shooting-299454
http://inessah.com/item/eyeportraits/
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/blog/notes-on-yoko-onos-white-chess-set
http://visitsteve.com/made/capitalism-works-for-me-truefalse/
http://atifateeq.tumblr.com/post/49792806508/an-image-of-my-itp-thesis-project-an-interactive
https://news.vice.com/article/chris-milk-spike-jonze-and-vice-news-bring-the-first-ever-virtual-reality-newscast-to-sundance
http://selfiecity.net/
http://lauren-mccarthy.com/relationalterations/
http://lauren-mccarthy.com/elsewhere/
https://vimeo.com/96549043
data viz
https://theintercept.co/officer-involved/ (also: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/09/officer-involved/)
http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
activist resources
http://www.wetheprotesters.org/
https://twitter.com/search?q=blacklivesmatter&src=typd
exhibitions
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects/\http://www.commarts.com/interactive/cai15/binauralaudiointeractive.html
http://nmaahc.si.edu/
lofi interactivity ref
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/samantha-hill-topographical-depictions-of-the-bronzeville-renaissance
https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/619608486784167936
Additional inspiration by our team member and curator Allie Bashuk
controversial installation:
http://hyperallergic.com/222106/an-art-exhibition-featuring-michael-browns-body-has-many-people-angry
the center for civil & human right in atlanta:
https://www.civilandhumanrights.org/
“here” by second story (a cool way to track participants and increase interactions):
http://secondstory.com/project/here
a reference for the video interactions from afar:
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141204/lower-east-side/talk-people-iran-through-new-lower-east-side-exhibit