The Radical Data Archive.

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Genderless Voice

A non-binary synthetic voice for digital assistants and other voice-based technologies.

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Map Kibera

Participatory project to map one of Nairobi's largest informal settlements.

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Land Acknowledgement Generator

Online tool for creating land acknowledgements, either community-submitted, or if not available, automated.

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Local Contexts

An annotation system for digital archives that embeds Indigenous protocols into metadata.

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Narrative Maps

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Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides

Visualising gun homicides in the United States using the video game Grand Theft Auto.

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Panama Papers

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Public Smog

An initiative to create clean air parks in the atmosphere by buying and withholding emission certificates from the emissions trading market.

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Queering the Map

An archive of the histories and unfolding realities of queer life.

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Buycloud

A website to buy clouds.

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Ugly Gerry

A font in the shape of US voting districts to protest gerrymandering.

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FloodNet

A tool for 'virtual sit-ins', developed in support of the Zapatistas.

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We Do Not Accept

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Ishango Bone

Perhaps the earliest known recording of data (19,000 BC).

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Queering the Quantified Self

Bringing queerness to self-tracking.

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Can the Subaltern Speak?

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Security Vision

Documenting and visualising the use of AIs across the world.

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Native Land Digital

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Factory Records Cataloguing System

A system assigning unique “FAC” numbers to everything from music, posters and films, to a club (FAC 51), a lawsuit (FAC 61), a hairdressers (FAC 98), a cat (FAC 191) and eventually the owner's coffin (FAC 501).

Tecnología Popular

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Museum of Stolen Artifacts

A decolonial museum dedicated to returning artefacts stolen during colonialism.

Tecnología Popular

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Creando Futuronan

A design and digital culture school from the ABCSSS islands, for the islands.

Tools for Postcapitalism

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Mesh

A decentralised communication platform that works without the internet, and cannot be switched off from above.

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r/datahoarder

A Reddit community around archiving digital information.

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Where are the Eyes?

A database of the world's surveillance cameras.

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Dear Data

Two information designers sending weekly hand-drawn data visualizations from their lives across the Atlantic.

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Life Under Curfew

An interactive data visualisation created by and for the residents of Dandora, Kenya.

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Holding Hands through Machines Made to Chop Off Hands

Creating connections between precarious AI workers to build unions and collaborative art.

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Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada

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Capture

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American Negro Data Portraits

A pioneering team of black sociologists created data visualizations that explained institutionalised racism to the world.

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TrackMeNot

A browser plugin that protects search privacy by generating random search queries to obfuscate actual user search patterns.

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Ushahidi

A now-institutionalised platform, that started out by crowdmapping the violence during the 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis.

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Data Dealer

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Tecnología Popular

A community-based project building technology from local struggles, shared knowledge, and collective imagination.

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Stolen Years from Gun Killings

A visualisation that recentres the narrative of gun violence around 'stolen years' and loss.

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Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency

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Self

An app for researching your body without flattening it into goals, scores, or someone else’s idea of health.

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PigeonBlog

Using homing pigeons with GPS-enabled backpacks to gather and communicate air pollution data.

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ALEX

Trying to understand the algorithms that underpin social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube.

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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry

A fictional auction catalogue that tells the intimate story of a relationship through personal artifacts for sale.

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QT.Bot

An artificial intelligence that generates speculative queer poetry.

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Unmasking Riot Police in Belarus

Facial identification of the secret police involved in the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Belarus.

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WeFarm

A platform routing information between farmers using SMS.

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SNet

A community-built offline intranet that connected tens of thousands of Habaneros in Cuba.

Collective Intelligence

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Cybersyn 2

A contemporary reimagining of socialist cybernetics, co-built with rural communities in Southern Africa to organise food distribution beyond supermarkets, startups, and middlemen.

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The Ministry of Silly Walks takes on Surveillance Capitalism

A playful yet functional proposal of how to evade a technology of surveillance capitalism.

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Not For You

An "automated confusion system" designed to mislead TikTok’s video recommendation algorithm.

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Mutant Standard

An alternative emoji set.

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Future Wake

A prediction of who will be the next to die from police brutality in the US.

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CollapseOS

A computer operating system for the end of the world.

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Baobáxia

Peer-to-peer archive and media platform for Afro-Brazilian quilombolas.

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Recycle Bin

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Papa Reo

Platform building tech for New Zealand such as Maori speech recognition.

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Boston Coastline Future Past

A walking tour of the future coastline predicted by climate change models.

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VFRAME

Computer vision tools that analyze footage from conflict zones to gather evidence for human rights violations.

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Bob Damron Address Books

Guidebooks for safe and welcoming places for LGBTQ+ travellers in the United States.

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How Normal Am I

An interactive documentary about computer vision and your face.

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The Library of Missing Datasets

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Balloon Mapping Kit

A simple DIY kit to take aerial photographs.

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Feral Trade

A global trade network that piggybacks on people's existing travel plans to move stuff.

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FarmHack

Developing and open-sourcing tools for farming.

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Who Wants to Be a Self-Driving Car

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Memorial to the Victims of Air Pollution

A monument dedicated to those who died due to the smog over Kraków.

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The Gratitude Machine

An AI learning how to be thankful.

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El Paquete Semanal

An offline distribution network in Cuba that provides weekly access to an offline version of the internet.

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Decidim

A platform for radical democracy.

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The Glass Room

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AdNauseam

A browser extension that automatically clicks on all ads in the background, obscuring user preferences and frustrating online tracking by ad networks.

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Value of Life

Calculating the value of life and its variations.

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Digital Campaign Kit

A pop-up data science team for low-resource political campaigns.

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CV Dazzle

Make-up as a tool for technological counter-surveillance.

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Mask Network

An anonymised layer on top of the internet.

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A Red Record

A statistical analysis spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States.

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Collective Reasoning

A distributed AI system built from many situated intelligences, designed to think through difference instead of flattening it.

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The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names

A digital archive to preserve the names and biographical information of Jewish Holocaust victims murdered during years of the Nazi regime from 1933-45.

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Zenzeleni Community Networks

A community owned wireless internet service provider based in rural South Africa.

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Low Tech Magazine's Website

A solar-powered website, that turns off if it's cloudy.

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Project Alias

A parasite add-on to smart home assistants for increased user privacy and agency.

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Mapping Police Violence

Collects data on police violence (particularly murders) in the US. Releases it as a consistently updated open database that is open to analyse.

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Mapa de los Feminicidios en México

A map using open-source intelligence to document murders of women in Mexico.

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Applied Science Fiction

A research project on the future that talks to sci-fi rebels, excavates past utopias, and builds prototypes to exercise political imagination beyond Silicon Valley’s recycled dreams.

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Buy the Artists' Data

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Glaze

A tool that cloaks visual artworks, so that their style cannot be mimicked by generative AI models.

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Cybersyn

A Latin "socialist internet" made in the 1970s and destroyed by a dictator.

Tools for Postcapitalism

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Divlab

An experiment in organising collective work without coercion, burnout, or hidden management.

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Anatomy of an AI System

Mapping the production of the Amazon Echo in terms of human labor, data and planetary resources.

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Library Extension

An app for browsing books anywhere to borrow them at your local library instead.

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D-CENT

An EU funded project to develop open source and decentralized tools to promote democracy and citizen participation .

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Surveillance Camera Players

A theatre group that performs plays in front of surveillance cameras.

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Zizi & Me

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Pirates of the Amazon

A browser extension that adds a link from the product you're viewing on Amazon.com to a free download link on The Pirate Bay.

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Traces

An app for collecting data for data walks.

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Wasteminster: A Downing Street Disaster

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Google Maps Hacks

A virtual traffic jam caused by 99 phones in a handcart.

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Masakhane MT: Decolonise Science

Building tools to translate African research into local languages.

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Turkopticon

Browser extension for Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to review and rate employers, helping workers avoid exploitative practices.

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Where Commuters Run Over Black Children on the Pointes-Downtown Track

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Mapping the Gay Guides

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Dirty Data

A messy counter to surveillance capitalism.

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In America: Remember