Ars Electronica Archive
Prix
Prix Map
Pictures
Videos
Publications
Special Projects
Women in Media Art
Prix
The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Visualizing Palestine
Original: Visualizing Palestine | 4181 * 3181px | 2.8 MB
Original: Visualizing Palestine | 3514 * 7099px | 2.8 MB
Original: Visualizing Palestine | 2000 * 1380px | 512.1 KB
_Visualizing Palestine_ is the intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice. We use creative visuals (infographics) to describe a factual rights-based narrative of Palestine/Israel. We envision a world in which people live in equality and dignity because they use communication tools to rally for positive change. We believe in the political potential of digital platforms and visual media to actualize a world in which people worldwide feel empowered to rally for positive change. We bridge the geographical digital divide by globally empowering communities and civil society (NGOs and rights organizations), giving them visual tools with which to transform information into positive change.
_Visualizing Palestine_ creates a community of change-makers by addressing two key issues: the failure of organizations to use effective communication tools, limiting themselves to dry reports, data tables and primitive graphs; and the failure of the media to report without bias. Over-coverage of Hamas and under-coverage of the systemic inequality Palestinians face led 57 percent of US citizens to support Israel’s 2012 strikes against Gaza. Even during the strikes, in which 25 Palestinian children were killed, the major media continued to emphasize Hamas’s role and downplay the loss of civilian life and infrastructure.
Our team identifies pressing issues through firsthand experience, partnerships with grassroots organizations, advocacy groups and a network of journalists and bloggers. We go through a process of story generation, highlighting the absurdities of the injustice. Next, our researchers collate extensive data and statistics from reports by organizations such as Amnesty International and the UN. Our data analysts then aggregate the data, exposing patterns and correlations. The design team then turns the data into powerful visuals, which the communications team publishes via our partners, the mainstream media and social media, under the Creative Commons license.
Links: www.visualizingpalestine.org
_Visualizing Palestine_ creates a community of change-makers by addressing two key issues: the failure of organizations to use effective communication tools, limiting themselves to dry reports, data tables and primitive graphs; and the failure of the media to report without bias. Over-coverage of Hamas and under-coverage of the systemic inequality Palestinians face led 57 percent of US citizens to support Israel’s 2012 strikes against Gaza. Even during the strikes, in which 25 Palestinian children were killed, the major media continued to emphasize Hamas’s role and downplay the loss of civilian life and infrastructure.
Our team identifies pressing issues through firsthand experience, partnerships with grassroots organizations, advocacy groups and a network of journalists and bloggers. We go through a process of story generation, highlighting the absurdities of the injustice. Next, our researchers collate extensive data and statistics from reports by organizations such as Amnesty International and the UN. Our data analysts then aggregate the data, exposing patterns and correlations. The design team then turns the data into powerful visuals, which the communications team publishes via our partners, the mainstream media and social media, under the Creative Commons license.
Links: www.visualizingpalestine.org
_Visualizing Palestine_ began when Ramzi Jaber, a Palestinian from the diaspora, went back to live in Ramallah in 2009 to curate TEDxRamallah, the first event of its kind in Palestine. Since then, the project has evolved from an idea into a core team of designers, researchers, tech experts, communications specialists and strategists. _Visualizing Palestine_ has produced 15 infographics and is in the process of being commissioned by the United Nations, the Emergency Water Sanitation and Hygiene Coalition and the Palestinian Business Committee for Peace and Reform. The infographics have been featured in _Al Jazeera English_, _The Daily Beast_, _Mondoweiss_, _Electronic Intifada_, and _Jadaliyya_. Its visuals have been translated into Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Finnish, Chinese and Korean. They have been used by universities, advocacy groups and organizations on four continents.