CODE AS ART INTENTS.

ONE.

Create a piece of generative art using the deaths per second rate of cancer as a variable to make a spider web grow outwards. Let it run forever and watch how quickly the web grows, zooming out to allow room for continued growth. The web would be made up of dots, with each dot representing one death, and the dots would be connected with lines. Would be used as a way to raise awareness for cancer research. Could be programmed fairly easily using java or processing

TWO.

Create an animation using flash or processing to show the remaining acres of tropical rainforest in the world since 1900. Set to a timeline to give the viewer a perspective of how quickly the decrease is happening. Use icons of trees on the screen (1 icon = 1000 acres of rainforest or so) and have the icons decrease as a counter counts from year 1900 onward. However, the counter will not stop at 2011, have it continue on, predicting that the rainforest continues to decrease at its current rate until 2040 or so when we are left with 0 acres of rainforest. This should do a good job of increasing awareness of the reduction of rainforests around the world.

Make a fake web site like facebook.net or faceboook.com and spread an announcement on the web that Facebook is going to merge with Google+ and make all facebook pictures and activity easily searchable via Google. It will make people think twice about what kind of pictures they have on their Facebook pages if they know they could be easily accessed by anyone they may or may not know. Could also make a statement about Facebook needing to tighten up their privacy policies.

Set up a pirate television station or pay someone who works at a broadcasting station to run modified commercials of popular fast food ads, with real live footage of slaughterhouses and animals in captivity mixed in. Keep the uplifting McDonald's jingles from the original commercials to play off the juxtaposition of the music with the gruesome imagery of what happens to the animals we eat.