unXPOSEd | Thoughts & Ideas

Green web design

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:48 GMT

Why web design is inherently sustainable

If capitalism is to survive, and sustain itself, then the death of the high street is essential. We must re-think our romantic ideals about outings to the shops, and become brutally honest about how best we can optimise the energy efficiency of our consumption. Can we continue constructing vast shopping centres and retail parks, or must any environmentally conscious retail outlet now employ a website as its primary sales assistant?

Progressive documentary

Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:54:58 GMT

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The content and structure of the documentary is of foremost importance. There should be strong and definitive rationale, content and conclusion; much like an essay. The documentary should have aims that are systematically tackled during the body of the film, by the end the aims should have been solved or revised, and a conclusion drawn. The documentary can be seen as a factual visual essay.

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All information used must be from a knowledgeable source on the subject, and where possible backed up by facts and figures. The extensive use of credible facts and figures is heavily encouraged.

Political art inside the gallery

Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:43:02 GMT

Your motives

Tackling social and political issues through the gallery environment is unarguably the most hypocritical of all art practices. The very notion of deciding to make a political artwork is inherently insincere and disingenuous, immediately calling into question your intent and aims. If you are so concerned, as you should be, with the social or political issue you are tackling; if you are passionate and therefore want to provoke as much possibility of change as possible, targeting such an audience as a gallery produces, predominantly a white middle class elite, is the epitome of pretentious. Why target such a narrow audience? The bigger the audience, the more you can inspire; the more likely change is to occur.

A virtual democracy

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:22:17 GMT

Digital psychogeography

Architecture is emerging from the rubble of the pre-revolutionary internet. Days when the one way communication of static sites mirrored the reality of a faceless world dominated by corporations.

Web 2.0 has brought democracy to the global village and created an entirely connected mental environment. One in which users are allowed to navigate, discover and interact in our virtual habitat - a vast interconnected playground charged with potential freedom and an emphasis on user power, all but lost in today's image saturated culture.

The future of the Global Justice Movement

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:09:12 GMT

Common cause

The resistance is growing - and for the first time truly unified. A unity found in justice, dignity and empowerment of the masses. With new technologies bypassing barriers of space, time and economy, a wave of global struggles have found common cause in the global village. From the U.K. to the U.S. to Palestine to Mexico to India to Venezuela to Zambia, mass movements are engaging against the repression enforced by the monetary demands of elite institutions. People irrespective of national identity and economic status are united in fighting inequality, corruption, media distortion, unethical corporations, environmental devastation, neo-liberal economics, native repression, cultural destruction and the root causes of poverty, war and ill health.

The battle for our streets

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:49:50 GMT

A taste of dissent

Current TV & Indymedia's citizen journalism. Banksy's urban-insurgency. Adbusters Magazine. Culture jamming & subvertisments' reorientation of corporate advertising. The blackspot sneaker factory. Mark Thomas' comedy slash activism. Two million people marching through London and engaging in sit down protests on major junctions. The Yes Men's coup of international news programming. Two million free Rough Guide to a Better World books. James Cauty's Blackoff Post-Terrorist Xmas Gift Shop. WorldChanging and Treehugger's online lifestyle guides.

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