Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 23, 2009, 08:52 PM

"Betaville: a Massively Collaborative Mirror World Editor for Public Art and Urban Planning Applications": In essence, Betaville is designed as a platform for full participation in re-imagining real urban environments, based on open-source software development practices: anyone can put out an idea, and anyone can propose or offer changes, within an informal but effective etiquette...

Submitted by fortune2 on Nov 18, 2009, 04:55 PM

The past year on the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign campus has been full of art activist projects. As an MFA candidate in New Media who is interested in work that exists in the world of art and the world of social change ,simultaneously, I have been particularly excited about this. I intend to use my HASTAC blog platform to highlight both past and current art and activist projects that have touched the UIUC campus in one way or another. First up, Oakland based artist Favianna Rodriguez and the artist collective she belongs to, Just Seeds.

Submitted by gerrycanavan on Sep 03, 2009, 05:34 PM

If your Facebook newsfeed is like mine, endless variations on "...thinks no one should die because he or she cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because he or she gets sick" have been scrolling down your screen all day. My kneejerk reaction to this new meme was, I'll admit, a crusty cynicism -- status updates don't have votes in the Senate -- but at the same time we should recognize that this sort of identitarian signaling behavior is an increasingly important part of what we "millennials" understand as political-cultural engagement.

Submitted by maggie_tate on Sep 08, 2008, 10:52 AM
Anyone interested in the relationship between art and activism might be interested in this 'group.' I like the metaphor of bees and cross-pollination as a way of visualizing activism in the information age.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Aug 24, 2008, 07:03 AM
One Web Day: September 22, 2008. One Web Day is an Earth Day for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet. Go to: http://onewebday.org