tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5161738996929292982024-02-08T08:34:15.955-05:00Soapbox EventSOAPBOX EVENT IS A PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE CREATED BY PIA LINDMAN. A WORKSHOP OF DEMOCRACY, IT HAS TAKEN PLACE AT THE FEDERAL HALL IN NYC, AT PARK AVENUE ARMORY NYC, AND UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ALL IN THE US.
THIS IS A PUBLIC AND OPEN BLOG FOR DISCUSSING FREE SPEECH AND DEMOCRACY.soapboxevent@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578463685257481759noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-516173899692929298.post-42987604728659038782012-04-06T08:25:00.000-04:002012-04-06T08:25:58.519-04:00<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.onlineitdegree.net/is-tech-racist/"><img alt="Tech is Racist" border="0" src="http://images.onlineitdegree.net.s3.amazonaws.com/tech-is-racist.png" width="500" /></a><br />
Created by: <a href="http://www.onlineitdegree.net/">OnlineITDegree.net</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-516173899692929298.post-85558320463872545092008-09-25T12:30:00.005-04:002009-07-24T05:41:23.942-04:00Wednesday evening 09/24/08, students and faculty of Eugene Lang College of Undergraduate Studies, New School of Social Research, debated about race in America. Mark Larrimore invited Pia Lindman and Soapbox Event to stage an "intervention" in the traditional forms of a panel discussion. Students were asked to use soapboxes to step up and speak, and to thus rearrange the social dynamics of the space.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-516173899692929298.post-22381624364593718232008-04-01T15:30:00.007-04:002008-04-04T11:48:58.444-04:00FROM A FRIEND, reporting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut:<br /><br />Recently there was another case of serious censorships at RPI where an exhibition of the Iraqi artist-in-residency Wafaa Bilal was shut down by the school administration, the show was moved to an The Sanctuary for Independent Media and soon after that the Sanctuary was closed by the state officials for violating safety codes.<br /><br />Some information here:<br /><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/11/rpi">http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/11/rpi</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzb6lNLY98">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzb6lNLY98</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-516173899692929298.post-79094102843310148362008-03-09T00:29:00.014-05:002008-08-29T19:03:50.650-04:00Soapbox workshop at Cooper Union<div>Posted here are comments by FIT students who participated in the workshop at Cooper Union on the 1st of March 2008.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-516173899692929298.post-72587910470012130082008-02-10T12:31:00.000-05:002008-02-10T14:38:55.408-05:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">THE SOAPBOX BLOG</span><br /><br />With fluent and fast communication tools available in a virtual world, are we contending too easily with this - almost automated - flow of data without any conception of how it is actually impacting the world? When communicating online, we are physically separated from the bodies we are communicating with. Does the lack of physical presence limit our ability to truly understand the concerns of other people and the effects of those concerns for each person? What does it mean to no longer have physical interaction while discussing pressing topics about our real lives with physical needs and consequences? Are we better off, or worse? When, for whatever circumstance, do we need to go out to the streets, with our actual bodies to effect change and how does a blog, such as this one, help further this process? Is it possible to bridge the discourse in the virtual world with actual change in policy and law? What needs to happen in both these worlds for democracy to become a fact?<br /><br />I still have not seen the effects of societal change without seeing actual bodies participating in the process in ways other than words. How can we make effective use of the available tools today, to bring about participation and change, no matter where our bodies are?<br /><br />If you have a response to any of these questions please participate by contributing to our blog posts. We have multiple topics listed below, but if you can't find a topic relevant to your thoughts please post them anyways.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">CASE STUDIES:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://soapboxevent-virtualmarch.blogspot.com/">Virtual March for Climate Change</a><br /><a href="http://soapboxevent-jena6.blogspot.com/">The Jena Six</a><br /><a href="http://soapboxevent-caucus.blogspot.com/">What is a Caucus?</a></div>soapboxevent@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578463685257481759noreply@blogger.com