Your motives

Tackling social and political issues through the gallery environment is unarguably the most hypocritical of all art practices. The very notion of deciding to make a political artwork is inherently insincere and disingenuous, immediately calling into question your intent and aims. If you are so concerned, as you should be, with the social or political issue you are tackling; if you are passionate and therefore want to provoke as much possibility of change as possible, targeting such an audience as a gallery produces, predominantly a white middle class elite, is the epitome of pretentious. Why target such a narrow audience? The bigger the audience, the more you can inspire; the more likely change is to occur.

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Digital psychogeography

Architecture is emerging from the rubble of the pre-revolutionary internet. Days when the one way communication of static sites mirrored the reality of a faceless world dominated by corporations.

Web 2.0 has brought democracy to the global village and created an entirely connected mental environment. One in which users are allowed to navigate, discover and interact in our virtual habitat - a vast interconnected playground charged with potential freedom and an emphasis on user power, all but lost in today's image saturated culture.

It's now not only the rich that can create and distribute the image, but anyone with access to a computer. Politics, culture, and education no longer have a price tag, and censorship is no longer an option.

The cultivation of the internet, our most democratic stage, is contributing to the increasing liberation of the user's mental environment.

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Common cause

The resistance is growing - and for the first time truly unified. A unity found in justice, dignity and empowerment of the masses. With new technologies bypassing barriers of space, time and economy, a wave of global struggles have found common cause in the global village. From the U.K. to the U.S. to Palestine to Mexico to India to Venezuela to Zambia, mass movements are engaging against the repression enforced by the monetary demands of elite institutions. People irrespective of national identity and economic status are united in fighting inequality, corruption, media distortion, unethical corporations, environmental devastation, neo-liberal economics, native repression, cultural destruction and the root causes of poverty, war and ill health.

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A taste of dissent

Current TV & Indymedia's citizen journalism. Banksy's urban-insurgency. Adbusters Magazine. Culture jamming & subvertisments' reorientation of corporate advertising. The blackspot sneaker factory. Mark Thomas' comedy slash activism. Two million people marching through London and engaging in sit down protests on major junctions. The Yes Men's coup of international news programming. Two million free Rough Guide to a Better World books. James Caulty's Blackoff Post-Terrorist Xmas Gift Shop. WorldChanging and Treehugger's online lifestyle guides.

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One

The content and structure of the documentary is of foremost importance. There should be strong and definitive rationale, content and conclusion; much like an essay. The documentary should have aims that are systematically tackled during the body of the film, by the end the aims should have been solved or revised, and a conclusion drawn. The documentary can be seen as a factual visual essay.

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