MOSCOW — Yesterday, members of the Russian artist collective VOINA were arrested without charges by Russian police posing as German television journalists. Natalia Sokol and her two-year old son were…
And here are some artfully assembled videos from ‘occupy’ movements in Canada. Enjoy these, too. More media, testimony, photos and coverage can be found at the Media Coop.
There’s only a little to say about this – Michel Foucault was born October 15, 1926, and by weird coincidence, Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the same day 82 years…
I just came across this, and it is too hilarious to pass up. The engimatic ‘Glove and Boot’ puppeteers have produced a short poke at the evolution of the hipster.…
Tarzan and Arab are Gaza artists who wanted to make films about their home. But they lacked resources, so instead they started making film posters for films that they wanted…
In what will generally be condemned by everyone as a creepy dystopian move, the Chinese government has massively expanded its video surveillance network into supermarkets, schoolrooms, university classrooms, malls –…
Worried about how the Internet is being transformed from a creative playground into a structure for dominance and control? You should be, at least that’s the warning from the OpenNet…
‘Pakour’, or FreeRunning, is the acrobatic art of running through cities and overcoming obstacles on the fly — or like a fly, because sometimes it seems like traceurs (slang for…
‘Pakour’, or FreeRunning, is the acrobatic art of running through cities and overcoming obstacles on the fly — or like a fly, because sometimes it seems like traceurs (slang for…
RSA is inviting artists to transform remarkable ideas into visual media — and offering over $6,000 CDN in prizes. Here’s the challenge: to create visual films for three fascinating and…
A new mapping project by Julia Hoecke,Fran Schechter and Susan G. Cole (at Now Magazine) has compiled a fascinating collection of cultural, political, and social spots relevant to the LBGT…
The fine folks from Making Contact (a program at the National Radio Project) present Marching for Change: Street Bands in the US, a new documentary about the musical funsters who…
VIVO in Vancouver presents the 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival. From the press release: The 11th annual Signal + Noise Media Art Festival presents a collision of…
A new report challenges claims made by Canada’s largest telecommunication companies in recent disputes over Internet billing and governance. Casting An Open Net: A Leading-Edge Approach to Canada’s Digital Future,…
Public Radio Remix is an experimental sound stream hosted by the Public Radio Exchange to showcase pieces from the PRX archive and to develop new approaches to radio.
Imagine a ghostly landscape conjured with the voices of people telling stories about their lives. Memories have their places. But they also animate our recollections of who we were in…
Jonathan Goldstein's work on CBC's Wiretap is something of an under-appreciated gem of Canadian public broadcasting.
The W2 Media Cafe (Vancouver) is hosting a day of remembering for the ill-fated Komagata Maru, a ship carrying 376 refugees from British India that arrived in Vancouver on May…
A Montreal artist collective is taking their public art to the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side. Billed as “The Pigeon’s Club”, an art festival for the homeless, the event…
The Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley is hosting an all expenses paid new media workshop for journalists, freelancers and educators. The Workshop runs from July 17 -22 and…
