Franny Armstrong
Franny Armstrong is a director of the McLibel documentary and obsessive McSpotlight fan, on new media's battle with the burgers.
ReadFranny Armstrong is a director of the McLibel documentary and obsessive McSpotlight fan, on new media's battle with the burgers.
ReadDeep Dish TV and Paper Tiger TV to Release New Video Series About Resistance to Rise of Far-Right Political Movements.
We Interrupt this Program brings together reports from frontlines of fight against white nationalism, neoliberalism, patriarchy, and colonialism.
b 1957 in Philadelphia (USA); 1978?82 study of art at the Cooper Union
of Art, New York (USA), under Hans Haacke, Vito Acconci and Martha
Rosler, degree of Bachelor of Arts; since 1981 in cooperation with Nam
June Paik; 1985 starting his own production of tapes and installations;
1990 Artist in Residence at the Video Fest Berlin (D); lives in New
York (USA).
Aalam Wassef, 38, is an Egyptian independent artist (installations, new media), blogger and internet activist.
He is based in Cairo in El Khalifa area.
ArtLeaks is collective platform initiated by an international group of artists, curators, art historians and intellectuals in response to the abuse of their professional integrity and the open infraction of their labor rights. In the art world, such abuses usually disappear, but some events bring them into sharp focus and therefore deserve public scrutiny. Only by drawing attention to concrete abuses can we underscore the precarious condition of cultural workers and the necessity for sustained protest against the appropriation of politically engaged art, culture and theory by institutions embedded in a tight mesh of capital and power.
Shahidul Alam is a photographer, internet pioneer and activist from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also the founder
and director of the Drik picture library and media-centre in Dhaka.
Berlin · May 12 2017:
Conference series by Disruption Network Lab e.V.
Whistleblowers and truth-tellers persecuted for blowing the whistle, critical thinkers and activists meet to discuss countermeasures to detention and repression.
The 11th event of the Disruption Network Lab to celebrate the upcoming freedom of Chelsea Manning and launch the new book by John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower). Directed by Tatiana Bazzichelli.
With: John Kiriakou (CIA anti-torture whistleblower, USA); Annie Machon (former MI5 intelligence officer, UK/BE);
Annegret Falter (Chair Whistleblower Netzwerk e.V., DE); Magnus Ag (Senior Programm Officer, Freemuse, DK/DE); Silvanos Mudzvova (Artist Protection Fund Fellow in residency at The University of Manchester, ZWE/UK).
Moderator of Enduring Post Communism: Networks of Patronage- An independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy has been involved in collaborative international projects and cultural exchange focusing on Eastern European initiatives since the mid eighties.
ReadSaskia Sassen's research and writing focuses on globalization
(including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration,
global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked
technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from
current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on
the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through
established 'truths.'
Nomadic artist, programmer, and musician. Split background including passionate forays into media and journalism, electrical and computer engineering, and sonic/visual art.
ReadIntroducing the panel on Counter-strategies of Corporations against
Campaigns Featuring: What are the modern-times strategies of present
day companies? And: How can we respond to these?
This part of the introduction includes a short outline of the themes to
be discussed at the forum. Being used are examples from the work of the
panelists and cases they have been working on. Also included are
exerpts from recent articles on the corporate world's reaction to
social and environmental cam-paigns, illuminating the main themes from
different points of view. References are included below, if you would
like to receive four further texts on this subject, please let me know:
evel@xs4all.nl
The McLibel media strategy arose from a simple premise: this story has
to be told. Most people have been affected by McDonald's in one way or
another - working in a store, being nagged by children, stumbling
through litter, suffering ill-health or enjoying their burgers - and
the corporation's influence continues to increase as they relentlessly
pursue their "global domination strategy" (to use their own words). Two
people investing their lives to stand up to such a force has got to be
a great story in anybody's book.
Increase the level of paranoia.....
bombs in the metro.....bombs in Oklahoma......
bombs in the World Trade Center.....bombs in Mururoa.....
Who are the real terrorists?
Global Uprisings is an independent news site and video series dedicated to showing responses to the economic crisis and authoritarianism. Since 2011, Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh have been travelling, researching, and making documentary films.
Their short films detail social movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the US. Their films cover strikes and demonstrations in the UK, the large-scale housing occupations and street mobilizations in Spain, the various general strikes, protests, and factory occupations in Greece, the revolution in Egypt, the Gezi Park uprising in Turkey, the 2014 social explosion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the revolt against austerity in Portugal, and the occupy movement in the United States.
Andrew Gavin Marshall is a 26-year old researcher and writer based in Montreal, Canada.
ReadResistance Strategies, Unionizing, and Coalition Building in a Time of Global Conflict and Contradiction.
This third issue of the ArtLeaks Gazette brings together art workers dealing with these urgent questions about models of organizations, unionizing, and strategies of resistance, and helping us to illuminate new ways of production and coalition building in international and local environments.
A project of Krzysztof Wodiczko and Robert Ochshorn
The veteran vehicle was developed in order to give a public voice to veterans struggling with the difficulties of returning to civilian life.