The future of a country that gave up on democracy

This is my senior project in visual communication studies in HIT – Holon Institute of Technology.
The project criticizes my country’s current government’s anti-democratic direction in the past year or so. It is a series of illustrations that show an apocalyptic future scenario, in order to provoke and raise questions among Israelis about the direction the country is going, and to think if this is the country we want to become in the future.

Ink and pencil drawings colored by Photoshop.

Sivan Hurvitz
I’m an illustrator and graphic designer, working and living in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In my work I try to express my thoughts and opinions about the reality we’re living in here, with hope of maybe making a change.

My portfolio | sivanhurvitz@gmail.com

What would you do if you were The Next Great Dictator?

This open call is open to all artists and writers worldwide.

What would happen if you assumed sole and absolute power and control in Israel, or the middle east, or even the entire world?

In the Roman Republic the term “Dictator” did not have the negative meaning it has later assumed. Rather, a Dictator was a person given sole power for a specific limited period, in order to deal with an emergency. At the end of his term, the Dictator was supposed to hand power over to the normal Consular rule and give account of his actions – and Roman Dictators usually did.

Imagine you had an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint, will you be a positive dictator or a mean one?
Submissions to this project are limited only by your imagination and desire to be in control.

We are looking for any kind of art, poetry, plays, images, videos, sound, journalistic pieces, academic extracts, experimental texts, everything and anything which you feel responds to the above question.

All articles should be no more than 1,000 words long and respond to the above question.

The Next Great Dictator

ArtPolitica will publish your submissions on our Homepage and our Facebook  fan page, along with an abstract of the authors bio and website link at the end of each post.

Please email all submissions to info {at} artpolitica {dot} com with the subject heading “Publication Submission”.

This open call has no deadline for submissions (for the time being).