Photos from Ghana ThinkTank’s installation and participation in the 2011 Hong Kong/ Shenzen Bi-city Biennial. The Ghana ThinkTank in Shenzen was Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, and Carmen Montoya. Video booth programming by Kevin Patton. www.szhkbiennale.org/2011 32 tires chained to an octagonal structure reminiscent of a pneumatic fender....

Ghana ThinkTank at Hong Kong / Shenzen Bienniale...

Ghana ThinkTank to work in Lebanon with the U.S. State Department, Bronx Museum of Art, and the Arab Image Foundation. More info here… U.S. Department of State Launches smARTpower, Will Use Visual Arts to Engage Underserved Youth Overseas and Strengthen People-to-People Diplomacy Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC October...

Ghana ThinkTank at The New School Monday, October 10, through Saturday, October 15, 2011 Developing the First World Workshop Thursday, October 13, 2011, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents the Ghana ThinkTank for a week-long residency to engage the public in examining issues posed by the MobilityShifts...

Well, the digital beast is in place! Built in a former equestrian training center in the suburbs of Karlsruhe, piled onto a trailer built to transport small airplanes, towed by a bright orange vintage Ford Transit to the much swanker, starker, technological climes of ZKM Contemporary Art Center. Then flipped and stacked onto the largest ...

For the New School’s conference MobilityShifts on Digital Learning (Oct. 10-16, 2011), Ghana ThinkTank has been hired by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics to solve the problems posed by the conference. MY PROBLEM WITH DIGITAL EDUCATION IS: (post your problem as a comment below)...

Here’s a little video Montage from Ghana ThinkTank’s Tank appearance at the Queens Museum of Art’s Passport Friday: Africa, on July 15, ...

a note: because of issues with the web connection here, dates are off on most of these posts We crossed this bridge four times yesterday. The first time, nervously. So much security, so many rumors and stories of danger filling our heads. Tales of protests, riots, grenades, gunshots. Then nothing. We were across and no ...

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On June 5, the Immigrant Movement International, the Queens Museum of Art , and Creative Time hosted a special session of the Ghana ThinkTank to focus on Corona, Queens. Using techniques from the project, new immigrants and more established residents talked openly about issues facing the community and how to address them. Food, translation, and ...

The Ghana ThinkTank in Corona involves a custom-built teardrop trailer designed to journey into different locales in the “First” world, collecting community and personal issues, and sending them to think tanks in Ghana, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Serbia, Iran, Afghanistan, and others… Once we receive the solutions, our trailer...

The Ghana ThinkTank Mobile Unit was presented by CREATIVE TIME at the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City on May 7, 2011. Our mobile unit, a custom-built teardrop trailer, was built to journey into different communities in the “First” world, collecting community (and personal) issues and sending them to think tanks in...

Ghana Think Tank interview on the Art21 Blog | http://blog.art21.org/2010/06/06/pardon-this-brief-commercial-interruption-ghana-think-tank...

Eyebeam, in conjunction with Upgrade! NY, presents Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus. Jun 10, 2010 – Aug 07, 2010Eyebeam Atelier540 W 21st St. New York, NY 10011 From the Eyebeam press release: “With participation now a dominant paradigm, structuring business models, creative and activist practice, the architecture of the city, and...

The Ghana Think Tank has made the shortlist for the Frieze Foundation Cartier Award ...

The Ghana Think Tank is a Finalist for Rhizome Commissions 2010. If you are a Rhizome member, and you support our project, vote now to rank Ghana Think Tank number 1 for the Member awards. View our proposal here...

Turns out the bollards disappeared a day after their painstaking install, but it looks like the dog toilet is actually working! Just got this message from Tracy: Chris,I’ve been emptying the sand pit regularly…people are throwing their ‘doggy bags’ in there. The front page of our local paper ran a headline about young...

Tracy, a tenant in Tenantspin, complained that “the dogs use the pavements as a toilet, and it has gotten worse lately.” Mexico suggested that she “make sandboxes for the dogs with the right odor in them, put a sign up that says ‘go here, not there’ and go by every morning to collect the shit.” ...

Some photos of the Ghana Think Tank installation for our presentation at RISD on May 24, ...

We have received photos and audio from our Ghana Think Tank that is actually based in Ghana. Eb will need to translate this so we can edit into something comprehensible to Americans, but there are already some gems: “They have the best cars and houses and still they complain?&#...

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 We have gotten back replies from all three sites. Each of them are interesting in some way and each disappointed in some aspects. Luis from Cuba was the first to arrive. He intercepted an e-mail targeted to his grandson and has been going to town on it. He speaks perfect English ...