Category Archives: Political Art

Taxi vs. Uber

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Everything has an expiration date; inevitably one trend goes out of style, food goes bad, lifestyles change. In this new and digitalized era we are bound to our phones, willingly placing ourselves inside of shells, and as we live in a capitalistic society, supply and demand ran its course. Instead of having to physically hail a cab, there are now apps that allow users to do the same thing but with minimal interaction and maximum efficiency. While this sounds appealing have you considered the appeal of this to the other parties–the victims of the era of digitalization?

 

 

Ride sharing services have had a devastating impact on yellow cab taxis throughout the city of New York. The poster is meant to show the perspective of a passenger inside a typical NYC taxi. Many of the objects seen throughout the image are meant to highlight and emphasize the impact that ride sharing apps have had on taxis. Alongside the poster, there is a key that explains the significance of the symbols that have been depicted throughout the image. The purpose of this poster is to shed light on the issue that many people around the greater NYC area are being affected by, in hopes to find a sustainable and effective solution.

 

This is What Matters

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Our project attempts to visualize the tragedies of police brutality and criminal justice with respect to people of color. Political art has played a key role in activism, most predominantly throughout the 21st Century. As a result, we selected such a controversial topic to focus on and present through art exclusively. With our life size newspaper, we hope that you can see the complexities and relevance of this issue.

        Sarah, Sonja, Molly, Nina

Instructions

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Before you take off for the summer, please add your final projects on the class website. Here’s how:

  1. Create a new post on the class website with a catchy title and a cool featured image for your project, and immediately select the ‘Political Art’ category so that the post gets filed in the right place. (The better your title and featured image, the more ‘traffic’ your post will generate.)
  2. Go wild with creativity – include pictures, text, and definitely a featured image. Need more guidance? Take pictures of your project and/or teammates (with permission), and write-up on how/why you went about picking this topic and making the art.
  3. Creativity is great but not at the expense of readability. Organize your post in the way you want your readers to engage with it. Unless you want your readers to feel chaotic and lost (which is also ok and sometimes what artists want), then think about the logic, structure, and flow of your post.
  4. Give credit where credit is due – ideas, quotes, and pics should all be credited if you did not create them. Credit in whatever way you like that makes sense for your project, but do give credit, otherwise its plagiarism, and not very nice.
  5. It may be hard to collaborate with your teammates on WordPress, so do it on Google Docs first and then move it over to WordPress once finished.
  6. Questions? Email Hamad at hsindhi@gradcenter.cuny.edu.

Have fun, and have a great summer!

(Featured image photo credit: Photo by Walid Berrazeg on Unsplash)