Toxic Networks, first exhibited in the Euphrat's Winter 2014 Deep Reading exhibition, received the 2014 Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative (SHREI) Outstanding Student Project Award and was exhibited at the SHREI Symposium, Stanford University on June 7.
The installation looks at the human rights implications of planned obsolescence in the production, consumption, and disposal of cell phones and electronics. It is a play on the iconic iPod ads. Only instead of dancing models, the panels follow the life of a cell phone from a child miner in the Congo, a factory worker in China, a teenager in the US to a baby in Bangladesh sitting on a pile of e-waste. Future plans include using it as a backdrop for e-waste collection and awareness events on campus and in the community.
working in progress...
Awards
2014 Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative Outstanding Student Project Award: http://shrei.stanford.edu/student_award/award_nominations
Exhibited at the SHREI Symposium on June 7
De Anza College Euphrat Museum:  http://www.deanza.edu/euphrat/collaborations.html

Project team
Chesa Caparas - Language Arts faculty and SHREI 2014 Fellow
Diana Argabrite - Director of the Euphrat Museum
Lana Gao
Laurin Chichkanoff
Chrysha Tiongson
Victoria Sanders
Siyu Wang
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