Browsing: Media

“This is an appeal.” On the screen in the background there is a big heart formed by red and black pixels. Above it is written: “#OrganizedLove”. Berlin, July 2016, 10th edition of the “re:publica” festival, the “Most Inspiring Festival For The Digital Society” according to its own statement. Kübra Gümüşay, publicist and activist, begins her talk, “This is an appeal.”

Here the name says it all – this flickr blog collects political posters (whose designers are politically “left-wing”).

The starting point for the project “(De-)colonial Images” by ISD (Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e.V.) and glokal e.V. is the development-political donation advertising, which shapes the consciousness of the viewer through its placement in public space and in the media.

Offensive, discursive, narrative: just three of the attributes that could be mentioned in the context of publicist Mely Kiyak’s weekly column on the website of Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater.

Forensic Architecture is a research agency that works internationally on various forms of violent crime, human rights violations and armed conflicts.

The lifestyle magazine from Vienna has been focusing on black life in Austria since 2014 and sees itself as a magazine by and for the second and third generation of the African diaspora. The focus is on lifestyle, art, fashion, studying and business.

This independent online portal focuses on the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The explicit goal here is to produce reporting that reflects a broad spectrum of opinions and thus takes on perspectives that are rarely if ever represented by large Western media companies.

Art

In 2015, the first issue of the literary magazine PS – Politisch Schreiben was published under the theme “Competition & Canon”. On the newspaper’s website, in addition to articles from the various issues, there is also an extensive list of links to friendly (art) projects and people.