Rethink Shinola
RETHINK SHINOLA is a web-based artwork (https://rethinkshinola.com/) that incorporates traditions of just-the-facts-journalism and creative juxtaposition to deconstruct and expose the ideologies underlying Shinola’s commercial rhetoric, past and present. Read More →
Disobedience Press
Disobedience Press is a small independent press that publishes essays about the capacity to be disobedient in the face of oppression. Read More →
Re Made Co.
Re Made Co. is a web-based artwork that appears to be a company selling $350 hand-painted toilet plungers. The work satirizes actual company Best Made's $350 designer axes, their appropriation of manual labor tools as trophies of “work” for an affluent, white-collar consumer base, and their glorification of a violent white masculinity. Read More →
Nice White Moderates
A Donald Trump impersonator reads letters written by parents to the Ann Arbor Public School Board to amplify similarities between Trump's emotionally manipulative rhetoric and the divisive tactics used by ostensibly "liberal" parents in their efforts to treat public education as a ‘service’ like any other, subsidized by their tax dollars and therefore answerable to them. Read More →
Radical Humility
What does humility mean and why does it matter in an age of golden escalators and billionaire entrepreneurs? How can the cultivation of humility empower us to see success in failure, to stretch beyond our usual ways of thinking, and to foster a culture of listening in an age of digital shouting? With contributions from renowned philosophers, psychologists, consumer culture scholars, artists, and others, Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts offers guidance. Read More →
#exstrange
The online curatorial project #exstrange invited a global group of designers, artists and curators to use and subvert the conventions of the online marketplace, presenting artworks masquerading as goods and services. Read More →
eBayADay
eBayADay was the first collective intervention into eBay. We invited artists to use the dozens of categories within eBay as site-specific locations for their ideas. Read More →
Reframing Photography
The Reframing Photography book is a broad and inclusive rethinking of photography. The book critically explores photographic representation, ethics, re-enactments, mediated vision, and other issues within the image-based world. Read More →
