Led by Favianna Rodriguez, Tumis
notes by Mack Hardy
- Cultural work and radical graphics
- The role that designs play in inspiring people
- telling a story, and talking about how the graphic design created uptake of the project
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- Year 2000
- Not in our name - women of color against the war
- War Targets Poor People of Color
- posters and graphics are highly visible and accessible non online people
- 2003 WTO - talking about the role of globalization and farmers
- Human Need not Corporate Greed -
- going after republicans and democratic national conventions
- big business sitting on top of the world
- Stop the Evictions - spanish and english
- graphics and web
- we need to visulize and share our vision
- people need to be able to see themselves
- posters are good for illustrating
- Housing is a human right
- working class families are being pushed out
- Oakland for the people
- gentrification
- Queer Latinas Youth Conference
- issues of representation, how are you representing woman, people of color
- what is our responsibility to representation
- Education, not Incarceration
- Prop 21 - 3 mistamenors, and you get life
- Dolores
- creating images of empowerment
- International Migrants Day
- how do I reach a population that is not on line
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- Designs on Decomcracy
- reclaiming public space using tech and graphics to challenge the right wing media
- We Resist Colonization
- us is acting as an empire
- these posters were coming out at a time when it was unacceptable to be anti war
- the radical left is the only response to the radical right powerbase
- culture is how we build movements
- doing messaging through music, art, and technology
- influences from cuban poster history
- La Nueva Grafica
- plaistine - depicting plaistine in the bay area is frought with issues,
- solidarity
- international approach
- media justice now
- from the celly to the telly
- existing media is very white, very male
- Femicidio
- Juarez diapearances
- mothers seeking justice for the disapearance of the children
- where are our children
- other media around this issue showed women as victims and carnage
- design shows women as workers, and resistance
- carnage vs images of hope - we have to choose what we are depicting
- SisterFire
- What do we do to engage the audience, and help them consider an alternatve oiutlooks based on the images
- Bush Divide Cuban Families
- Talking about who our heros are - MalcomX
- we can't be perpetuating violence abroad, and pushing for peace at home
- The duality of women
- social presure on on on hand
- and the raw side, women escaping the constraints of society
- Immigrants marching for equality, amnesty
- we are here and not leaving,
- and if they throw us out, we'll come back
- demanding justice, equality and liberty
- What will happen to black west oakland
- gentrificaiton = predatory development
- we say hell no
- west oakland for the people
- people protesting happened so much faster than the organizations could support them
- Clear Channel has billboards that can be used at a reduced cost
- giant billboard was posted right at the BART station
- press conferences at the billboard
- used the visual billboard to show that "yes we are here"
- Day Labourers
- no images of day labourers on the net
- latina power - in google will show her content, so she is setting a tone
- Day labourers don't want to be photographed because they fear deportation
- it is important to have people of color doing this work, because the need an authentic local voice
- Creative commons license
- 3 languages
- signoff handled by the system
- presales before publisher will publish
- Including the URL in the poster, driving traffic to the site
- links to issue site
- Collaberation with theater groups
- SF Mime troop
- Cultural campaigns can be delivered using the technology as the vehicle
- A couple canadian artists
- Surrounding events
- there is a need and an urgency
- the communicaiton channel needs content
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- Open studio event October 20th in Oakland
- at tumis building
- Art collective, needed a cultural center for focusing the efforts
- need for businesses that are sustainable and from people in the community
- opened the technology firm in the community
- 2005 they bought a big building
- theater for 500
- youth sound recording studio
- graphiti program
- 2 commercial spaces
- and 16 rented residences
- commecial and residential rentals pays for the community centre, so that it remains rent free
- City doesn't want to mess with housing, so the 16 units keeps them at bay
- 3 housing units for emancipated foster living
- pushing for beautificaiton of the
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- tumis - the design and web firm
- 13 people
- Flavina is a founder
- can't run as a coop and be a for profit
- working on transitioning the building into a greenbuilding
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- Why creative commons?
- anyone can download and use the content as long as its not commercial
- allows for people to iterate on the content
- commecial use needs permission
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- There is a creative commons search function in Flickr
- There is a new creative commons photo site for non-profits to use, bob to upload note on it to woc wiki
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- Public Art
- Visual Element program as part of the cultural center
- youth creating murals
- cultural center offsets the cost of the poster
- murals are localized and speak to the community that are in
- Art is a connection to global issues, considering these posters in an international context
- lots of art activism that needs to mesh with the technology
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- Larger issues
- HIV rates rising in mexico and workers
- day labourers getting robbed for the cash they carry at the end of the day
- looking for different funding options, outside of arts funding
- looking for single donors, not institutions, can't work for institutions that take the radical out of the work
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- sites for more info
- tumis.com
- favianna.com
- eastsideartsalliance.com
- In dec 2007
- Reproduce and Revolt.com
