This book is a collection of 170 posters made in the last ten years. Included is the introduction and criteria behind the book and some pages as they are designed using InDesign, photoshop and Bookwright:
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CHANGING CULTURE
This book is a collection of protest and revolution posters created in the last ten years. It is an activist project and serves as community service by teaching students to use their praxis in real world situations for the good of humanity.
We are living in fragile times. The term Anthropocene describes Earth’s most recent geological epoch in which human actions have provoked biophysical changes on a global scale. We researched global warming, deforestation, population displacement, contamination, pollution, and endangered species. We studied advertising and marketing persuasion, semiotics, historical propaganda, documentaries, protest sound diaries, podcasts, and testimonials. We examined different art movements used in propaganda and protest posters: Maximalism, postmodernism, surrealism, retro, and deconstruction. The final class project was to create a “call for action” poster series, as a civic engagement project. We emailed them to different world organizations.
Nicholas Mirzoeff proposes that visual activism is the interaction of pixels and actions to make change. Pixels are words and images; actions are performances. Our university graduates will become activist citizens, make a difference, and “Pay it Forward.” New generations will hopefully make changes to our world’s social, economic, and political systems. They can change culture and put a stop to global warming, pollution, misuse of natural resources, population displacement, deforestation, and the decimation of wild species.
We are living in fragile times. The term Anthropocene describes Earth’s most recent geological epoch in which human actions have provoked biophysical changes on a global scale. We researched global warming, deforestation, population displacement, contamination, pollution, and endangered species. We studied advertising and marketing persuasion, semiotics, historical propaganda, documentaries, protest sound diaries, podcasts, and testimonials. We examined different art movements used in propaganda and protest posters: Maximalism, postmodernism, surrealism, retro, and deconstruction. The final class project was to create a “call for action” poster series, as a civic engagement project. We emailed them to different world organizations.
Nicholas Mirzoeff proposes that visual activism is the interaction of pixels and actions to make change. Pixels are words and images; actions are performances. Our university graduates will become activist citizens, make a difference, and “Pay it Forward.” New generations will hopefully make changes to our world’s social, economic, and political systems. They can change culture and put a stop to global warming, pollution, misuse of natural resources, population displacement, deforestation, and the decimation of wild species.
Carlos Llerena Aguirre, MA, MFA, MEd, MFA.
Distinguished Professor, Wuhan University, China
Department of Art and Art History
University of Miami
www.carlosllerena.com
