4 years, 12 months ago
Does Facebook Make Us Unhappy and Unhealthy?
A look at new research covering thousands of adults
https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-facebook-make-us-unhappy-and-unhealthy-1495729227
4 years, 11 months ago
This is a great read: Notes Toward the Memes of Production
https://www.textezurkunst.de/106/notes-toward-memes-production/#id56
[IMG MGMT] What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan
4 years, 11 months ago
Disobedient Electronics booklet edited and hand-crafted by Garnet Hertz.
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/disobedient-electronics-protest/?utm_content=buffer63afa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
4 years, 12 months ago
Here some very good research on Facebook, highly recommend!
https://labs.rs/en/
5 years ago
Facebook showed advertisers how it has the capacity to identify when teenagers feel “insecure”, “worthless” and “need a confidence boost”, according to a leaked documents based on research quietly conducted by the social network.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/01/facebook-advertising-data-insecure-teens
5 years, 2 months ago
The Critique of Design Thinking is a bit naive, but there is a lot in here which deserves support. Quite a few things similar to our Memefest workshop approaches. The idea that good design is potentially solving problems created by bad design is one of them. Still what's missing is an emphasis on decolonization:
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3068235/want-to-fight-inequality-forget-design-thinking
5 years, 3 months ago
This is really worrying if we don't find an alternative. Its interesting because the growing distrust to media was mostly visible in advertising first. Now media as such will become distrusted but with potentially severe consequences.
AI and the End of Truth
Think the current fake news issue is bad? It won’t get any better with AI.
https://medium.com/swlh/ai-and-the-end-of-truth-9a42675de18#.tj0bq4yuq
5 years, 3 months ago
Organizing for protest on Facebook will make you vulnerable as your activities are monitored and data fwd to police and other control agencies:
Inauguration-protest arrests lead to Facebook data prosecution
Move fast and break democracy.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/10/inauguration-protest-arrests-lead-to-facebook-data-prosecution/
5 years, 3 months ago
Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare?
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/meme-warfare?utm_source=mbfb
5 years, 3 months ago
This is a must read to understand the logic of current medias "fake news" potential.
The Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits

5 years, 4 months ago
Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition
Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles that computers interpret as a face, in fightback against intrusive technology
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/04/anti-surveillance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
5 years, 4 months ago
It is great to see how Jafri connects with other protesters and voices with his unifying message STOP RACISM NOW.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/protesters-blocked-traffic-at-flinders-street-station-20170103-gtlgun.html
Here again the website created at this years Memefest- check it out and do consider supporting Jafri's campaign with a donation. It will truly go a long way!!
https://www.stopracismnow.org/

5 years, 4 months ago
Go Pro: The Hyper-Professionalization of the Emerging Artist
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/09/go-pro-the-hyper-professionalization-of-the-emerging-artist/
5 years, 5 months ago
A necessary read on how machines, software and AI are changing the culture of photography and image
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
By Trevor Paglen
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/
So what is the future of photography and communication design? And how should we change what we teach students in both areas to remain both fields as a relevant body of knowledge- practiced by humans?
5 years, 5 months ago
This is super interesting and important to read. Trumps communication culture is based on "black FB posts"- and labor exploitation via design crowd sourcing platforms in Asia.
How the Trump Campaign Built an Identity Database and Used Facebook Ads to Win the Election:
https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-built-an-identity-database-and-used-facebook-ads-to-win-the-election-4ff7d24269ac#.a8g1zym56
and this:
Never mind the algorithms: the role of click farms and exploited digital labor in Trump’s election
http://www.casilli.fr/2016/11/20/never-mind-the-algorithms-the-role-of-exploited-digital-labor-and-global-click-farms-in-trumps-election/
5 years, 6 months ago
Read this, its important:
Surveillance Self-Defense Against the Trump Administration
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/12/surveillance-self-defense-against-the-trump-administration/
5 years, 6 months ago
I would like to invite you all to the Memefest Symposium/ Workshops/ Interventions starting in ten days on the 21.11. at Swinburne University, here in Melbourne. We will again reconnect the Memefest network. We have invited fantastic people from around the world to work with. We will research and practice PLEASURE. Come, you are warmly invited.
Register for the free event here:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2nd-memefestswinburne-extradisciplinary-symposium-workshop-intervention-tickets-28748618893

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Username
s2art
Name
stuart murdoch
Birth year
1961
Gender
male
Country
Australia
Website
Description
seer of pictures maker of art
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
internet culture, "the always on", the transmission of imagery, the power of imagery, imagery's ease of dissemination dissection duplication and distraction, memes, gifs,
Faculty
The University of Life
Education
Fine Art Photographer
Working place
N.C.A.T
Music I like
tom waits, pink floyd, TISM, brian eno,
https://www.last.fm/user/bbqs2art
Books I like
photography
Films I like
films about photography and the internet, sc-fi, blade runner is my all time favourite Sci-Fi movie, Apocalypse Now, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Fight Club, The Passeger,
Websites I like
http://flickr.com
http://wired.com
People I like
Robert Adams
Frederick Sommer
Martin Parr
Wiillam Eggleston
Teju Cole

4 years, 11 months ago