This video features in a responsive display in the museum that presents the moments, stories and memes capturing the zeitgeist by going viral on the internet.
Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei is campaigning against threats to journalistic free speech by encouraging others to post videos of themselves “running for our rights”. Australian journalist Julian Assange gave Ai Wei Wei a treadmill he used while living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange faces potential extradition and prison in America for publishing US government documents on Wikileaks.
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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-09. Catch of the Day
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Digital screen recording of @aiww's instagram feed