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arzuozkal.bsky.social
Using art and design for potentially meaningful change. Professor in the School of Art and Design at SDSU.
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I am watching Herzog's "Even Dwarfs Started Small" an absurd attempt at revolution: the running truck endlessly driving in circles, nazi salutes, drug infused erratic behavior... distorted and grotesque. #herzog #movies

If you're familiar with Turkey's Gülen movement, the Krasn•v news feels less like spy fiction. What a time for Meta to stop fact-checking. #spysky 😉

#RedBookDay #ElectronicDisturbance

Just putting this here: Homeless veterans with PTSD and depression will be the first residents of JFK's so-called wellness farms. And he will claim he solved homelessness. I just hope they aren’t side-by-side with Lanmask’s brain-computer interface facilities. #conspiracykindofmorning #f•cked

Donate your teslas to @aclu.org

The people united!

#sandiego at Waterfront #nokings

"one day all seven will die" #prince

Nancy Spero letter to Lucy R. Lippard, October 29, 1971. Dear Lucy, The enemies of women's liberation in the arts will be crushed. Love, Nancy www.si.edu/object/nancy...

Convenience over conscience.

What people recognize in him is not the individual but an idea, one that reinforces a state of egoism and individualism at the expense of everyone and everything else.

Since I let my #Prime expire, I’ve saved so much on the junk I didn’t impulse-buy. Highly recommend it.

This has been running through my head since Election Day.... #JeffBezos #Billionaires #Innauguration2025 #BoycottAmazon

Here you can buy e-books from local book stores. bookshop.org/ebooks

In "Decisionscape," behavioral scientist Elspeth Kirkman explores decision-making in a refreshingly original way, demonstrating how thinking like an artist can help us deliberately arrange our perspective to make better choices: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048941/decisionscape/

When I say I fear #AI, I was worried about some not-so-distant future, definitely not the shit we're living through now.

Ordered two, one for our student library.

Opening tomorrow at @sandiegostate.bsky.social University Art Gallery “Reflecting on #RuthAsawa and the Garden of Remembrance examines the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during WWII through the lens of the Garden of Remembrance (2000 - 2002)…”

#offendingwords

#socialjustice #sociocultural #socioeconomic #status #stereotypes #systemic #trauma #underappreciated #underrepresented #underserved #underrepresentation #undervalued #victim #women #womenandunderrepresented #antiracist

#inequities #institutional #lgbt #marginalize #marginalized #minorities #minority #multicultural #polarization #political #prejudice #privileges #promotingdiversity #raceandethnicity #racial #racialdiversity #racialinequality #racialjustice #racially #racism #senseofbelonging #sexualpreferences

#females #fosteringinclusivity #gender #genderdiversity #genders #hatespeech #hispanicminority #historically #implicitbias #implicitbiases #inclusion #inclusive #inclusiveness #inclusivity #increasediversity #increasethediversity #indigenouscommunity #inequalities #inequality #inequitable

#discriminatory #diversebackgrounds #diversecommunities #diversecommunity #diversegroup #diversegroups #diversified #diversify #diversifying #diversityandinclusion #diversityequity #enhancethediversity #enhancingdiversity #equalopportunity #equality #equitable #equity #ethnicity #excluded #female

#activism #activists #advocacy #advocate #advocates #barrier #barriers #biased #biasedtoward #biases #biasestowards #bipoc #blackandlatinx #communitydiversity #communityequity #culturaldifferences #culturalheritage #culturallyresponsive #disabilities #disability #discriminated #discrimination

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

#TheSanFranciscoPosterBrigade #SFPB was an activist group in the late 1970s that combined art, politics, and activism (mostly Latin American resistance). They created silkscreened posters, and circulated them through postal networks worldwide. (They are truly breathtaking in person.) #mailart

Padín’s work due to their subversive nature led to his arrest in 1977. The arrest of #Padín and #JorgeCaraballo sparked an international outcry, with the mail art community rallying to demand their release, showcasing the medium's power to inspire collective action. #mailart #collectiveaction

With my co-editor Mila Waldeck, in Cabaret Voltaire: Fluxus West, San Diego and Southern California Mail Art, we explored mail art as a medium of resistance. Clemente Padín discussed the mobilization power of political periodicals, like Ovum, under Uruguay’s dictatorship. #mailart is #resistance

A shameful day for America

New, from me: Looking closer at the effort to induce mass civil servant resignations. *The offers are not real buyouts *Feds should read the fine print *If mass resignations occur, it is really bad for the rest of us donmoynihan.substack.com/p/compelling...

Expect JanSix themed symposia on college campuses next year, possibly accompanied by a few ceremonies, at least in some states!