Event: Show Me Your Bits
Data visualisation combines statistical analysis and design principles to make information more understandable. Visualisations are increasingly found in policy, advocacy, scientific analysis, and risk communication. But blurring disciplines can lead to host of messy problems. Can open data and communicable design reinvigorate democracy? When does a visualisation cross the line from “just the facts” to … Read more
Creative Wellingtonians Combine Art and Technology to Help Communities Overseas
Concerned Citizens, a Wellington-based creative community of more than 80 artists and musicians, have announced the opening of a cutting edge “Open Source” community art gallery at Nineteen Tory Street, in the heart of Wellington’s CBD, with a first fundraising event taking place on Friday April 13. “Open Source is about sharing information and collaborating … Read more
Film Night: Waste Land
Andrew Cobb organised a screening of Waste Land on Friday. Waste Land documents contemporary artist Vik Muniz’s return to his home of country of Brazil to share the experience of creating art with the pickers of the worlds largest landfill. This film is a fascinating look at the impact of art on all walks of … Read more
Unrecognised: photography exhibition & auction in support of Palestinian human rights
Unrecognised was a unique art auction featuring original work from more than 50 photographers/artists from New Zealand, Palestine/Israel and South Africa exhibited in Wellington, Hamilton, Whanganui, Auckland, Dunedin, and East London, South Africa. All proceeds from the auction went towards helping ActiveStills, an Israeli/Palestinian photographers’ collective, continue their work in documenting the human rights situation in Palestine. Here’s … Read more
Exhibition in support of the Urewera 18
Our most recent event raised over $6,000 for the defendants in the Urewera 18 ‘terror raids’ case, but more importantly, it got hundreds of people all over the country talking about the issues surrounding the case: such as the roles of the police, government, and media in the public perception of ‘activism’ vs. ‘terrorism’, and … Read more
