Art Threat: Exploring the world of art and politics
Set against a cultural landscape saturated with profit pop and reality TV, Art Threat is a website about political art. We showcase political artists who mix art and politics to create artwork seeking social change.
Subscribe to our blog and keep tabs on the political art scene. We're art form agnostic, coving stories on political artwork, protest music, documentary film, environmental design, and radical literature. You'll also find news and discussion on public policy as it pertains to culture, as well as free media downloads as we hand out music and video from our generous creative comrades.
Art Threat is published by überculture, a non-profit media arts organization. Please consider a donation to support our work, or get in touch if you want to submit your work or volunteer with us.
Editor
Rob Maguire is a freelance photographer, writer and web worker living in Montreal. Other than writing his ridiculously overdue Master's thesis on the evils of electricity privatization, Rob blogs, plays with dogs, and often hurts himself playing ultimate frisbee.
Contributing editors
Michael Lithgow is a graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa studying communications. He is also a freelance writer, video artist, curator and pirate radio activist. He recently returned from Cape Breton where he was observing and working with a small community TV station as part of his graduate research. Recently, he has been learning to cook vegetarian food that tastes delicious.
Ezra Winton is a co-founder of überculture. He dangles one foot in activism and the other in academia, with a focus on media concentration, corporate culture appropriation and subversion, and the industrial military entertainment complex. He enjoys awkward, verbose and ridiculous language. He is the coordinator of Cinema Politica, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies at Carleton University.
Writers
Anikka Maya Weerasinghe is a graduate of McGill University, studying both political science and cultural studies. Since her graduation she has wandered the globe, snapping photos of street art and unearthing the secret of everything. Having discovered little of satisfaction, she's moving across the Atlantic to begin an MA at King College, UK in the fall. In the meantime she lives in Montreal where she continues to write, paint, design and figure out new ways to get the message out.
Leslie Dreyer is an artist, photographer, film fest programmer, and champion mud wrestler. She has organized films, artwork, performances, interventions, activism, journalism, and their respective creators for Cinematexas and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Currently uprooted from home, sweet Austin, Texas, she is living in and wandering through Asia while researching creative and collaborative projects for social change.
Mél Hogan is involved in various queer/women's media projects as founder of nomorepotlucks.org and co-host + sound tech for CKUT Radio's Dykes on Mykes. As a Joint PhD candidate at Concordia University, she is researching creative queer oral histories. Also a freelance designer and intermedia junky.
