Daily Archives: March 30, 2022

Portraits of Hope: How Two Los Angeleno Artists, The Massey Brothers, Have Used Art and Poignant Visual Imagery for Large Scale Projects of Social Consequence Since 1995

In 1995, Ed Massey and Bernie Massey founded Portraits of Hope, continuing their utilization of art and poignant visual imagery for large-scale projects of social consequence. Developed initially for seriously ill and physically disabled children, the 501 (c)(3) program conceives and develops one-of-a-kind motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works…

Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima Photographs at the Getty Museum Present a Different Entry Point for Experiencing the Inexpressible Than a Western Mind Might

Many artists have made the pilgrimage to Hiroshima and produced art works from a profound need to atone and understand how one of the greatest crimes of the second world war could have happened. To honor the dead, to pay testament to the terrible loss, to advocate for the abolition of nuclear arms, to ask…

Michael Masucci, Speaking At InfoWarCon: What Does Performance Art Have In Common with ISIS?

In the April CCG newsletter we wrote about  Michael Masucci who was speaking at the InfowarCon security conference. InfowarCon is the brainchild of author and cyber-security pioneer Winn Schwartau, who not only coined the now-ubiquitous phrase “Information Warfare” ( the title of his 1994 book, now considered a classic in the field) but founded the…

Five Chinese Feminist Performance Artists Released From Prison, for Now

Update from Slate After more than a month of imprisonment, the so-called “feminist five” (Wang Man (王曼), Li Tingting (李婷婷), Wu Rongrong (武嵘嵘), Zheng Churan (郑楚然), and Wei Tingting (韦婷婷) were released from custody by Chinese police yesterday. The five activists had been arrested on March 8, International Women’s Day, over a campaign they attempted…

Online Video As A Weapon Of War

Michael Masucci spoke this April 30 in Nashville at InfoWarCon 15 which is an annual conference of political, military, academic, DIYer, and commercial cyber-leaders and thinkers from around the world who examine the current, future, and potential hostile use of cyber and related information technologies and how to neutralize the current ones. Michael addressed the…

Supporters of Detained Chinese Performance Artists Come Under Pressure

Demonstrators in front of the Central Government Liaison Office in Hong Kong last Saturday call on Beijing to release the five women detained as they were planning to distribute stickers highlighting the problem of sexual harassment on public transport. Credit Didi Kirsten Tatlow/The New York Times Like a modern-day Leviathan scenting challenges to its rule,…