Data, Ethics, Community

Data, Ethics, Community

This essay is a conversation between Anselm Hook (Creative Technologist, former CTO of Meedan, Co-Founder of Maker Lab and Liminal AR in the Samsung Accelerator) and Wendy Levy, the Executive Director of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.

The Beautiful Chaos of Creativity

The Beautiful Chaos of Creativity

By Katerina Cizek

With collaboration at its core, the challenge of Creative Leadership is the dance between the (beautiful) chaos of creativity and the (necessary) framing, organizational instinct of more conventional forms of leadership. Both "Creative Leadership" and "Leading Creatively" mean keeping wheels on both tracks, in parallel.

Virtual Reality in Conflict Zones

Virtual Reality in Conflict Zones

By Conor Risch

Like oxygen to fire, new generations of soldiers feed longstanding conflicts. It’s unlikely that young people who take up arms in places like Israel and Gaza, El Salvador, Afghanistan and the Congo actively choose to deny the humanity of their enemies. The cultures that raise them, and the history of the conflicts into which they step, cast enemies as “the other,” as people without decency or compassion or hopes and dreams, and it can be easy to avoid digging for alternate views.

Narrative Injustice

Narrative Injustice

By Wendy Levy

I loved the Ms. magazine No Comment section, where they curated some of the most heinous sexist advertisements currently in circulation—and said nothing about them. Just put them out there. Since the 1970s, these dramatic micro-stories illuminated systemic violence and discrimination against women in every aspect of our American lives.

I wish I was good at No Comment. When I am confronted with media that perpetuates injustice, I tend to comment. I’m writing about a video The New York Times published today, "A Walk On the Wild (Edibles) Side".

Just Vision Leads Impact Campaign for ‘Wanted 18,’ on Little-Known Story from 1st Intifada

Just Vision Leads Impact Campaign for ‘Wanted 18,’ on Little-Known Story from 1st Intifada

By Just Vision

It’s 1987 and the Israeli army is in hot pursuit of eighteen dairy cows in the town of Beit Sahour, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The cows are declared a threat to Israel’s national security after a group of Palestinians begin producing milk for the town’s residents. The Israeli soldiers find themselves in a game of cat-and-mouse as residents of the town work together to shuttle the cows from barn to barn. The fugitive cows of Beit Sahour become legendary and the “intifada milk,” often distributed under cover of night, is a statement of self-reliance that provides their community with alternatives to replace Israeli goods.