Defining Independence in the Digital World
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View all Calls for SubmissionsIn the year 2002, I wrote a long piece for my own publication The Eclectic Screening Room, entitled “Us, Mainstream […]
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By Derek Winkler Hey you, activist person. Do you feel like you’ve been protesting for years and nothing much has changed? […]
We used to send mail, and there used to be an underground movement of artists who made mail art. Laura […]
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