Visual Resistance

Had a great time at the AI Firefly conference yesterday. Met a lot of great artists and activists and listened on some great panels. At our discussion, we talked a little bit about our experiences working on the No RNC Poster Project and our inspirations for doing political street art and poster campaigns. The back-and-forth afterwards was interesting and useful, but we ran up against out time limit far too soon.

So, whether you were there or not, some of the questions that are still swirling in around my head are: Does political art change people’s minds? Or is it meant more to create/strengthen communities? Who is the intended audience? How do you avoid preaching to the choir? Should artists try to “bomb the suburbs” or at least the red states?

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the conversation. Special thanks to Swoon and John Emerson for coming out. Big, big thanks to Esy and the rest of AI Firefly for the invite and the opportunity.

For those of you who were at the conference and are coming to the site for the first time, take a look around, add your comments, and drop us a line at visual.resistance@gmail.com.

Oh, and we’ll try to get version of our zine up on the site sometime this week.