lisagye
RESEARCHER + ACTIVIST + EDUCATOR + PHOTOGRAPHER + THEORIST + WRITER + NETWORKER + VIDEO_FILM_MAKER + INTERVENTIONIST
6 years, 1 month ago
Here a good piece on the Managerial University. I see this happening every day. Its really worth your time! Whats the alternative?
http://www.demosproject.net/the-managerial-university-a-failed-experiment/
6 years, 1 month ago
The Boston Globe recently published a fake cover imagining a time when Donald Trump would be president. The first major daily doing it as the Yes Men did it with their fake New York times - although this was an art project. Art imitates life imitates art imitating life....Here more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/10/trump-president-boston-globe-predicts-news-fake-front-page

6 years, 1 month ago
Here a good list of alternative knowledge sharing platforms:
http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/106264335/Alternative%20Platforms
6 years, 1 month ago
Remember Memefest 2013: DEBT-
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
6 years, 2 months ago
Part of this years Memefest PLEASURE outlines is devoted to the Pleasure of Hospitality (and being human). Here a wonderful short film about conversations between refugees and tourists on the Greek Island Lesbos:
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-island-of-all-together/
6 years, 2 months ago
Memefest 2016 Festival theme: PLEASURE
The pleasure of drugs:
At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
More here: http://jezebel.com/nixons-policy-advisor-admits-he-invented-war-on-drugs-t-1766359595
Memefest outlines here: http://memefest.org/en/competition/intro/

6 years, 2 months ago
Here's a good one about the new Facebook "Reactions" recently introduced to supplement the Like button.
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/reacting-to-reactions/
6 years, 2 months ago
Will be doing a virtual Iranian cooking lesson tonight.
Here more:
THE IRANIAN VIRTUAL COOKING LESSON
Where: TEHRAN, IRAN & AROUND THE WORLD (via video call)
When: Saturday March 5, 2016 8:00pm-10:30pm Tehran time (GMT +3:30)
Join Conflict Kitchen and participants from around the world for a virtual cooking lesson and Iranian meal with Executive Chef Bahar Sarhangi, live from Tehran. You can tune in from your home kitchen to our live feed below. We will be making Khoresht-e Bademjan. You will be able to follow it live from the link bellow. If you want to cook as well see here what ingredients you need.
6 years, 3 months ago
Here my new text in Design and Culture:
Social Innovation and Design Education: Towards a Socially Responsive Communication Design Pedagogy
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17547075.2015.1096187

6 years, 3 months ago
Expanded social documentary: strategies, techniques, and experimental forms.

6 years, 3 months ago
Expanded social documentary: strategies, techniques, and experimental forms.
Photo, video, research and storytelling master class led by Memefest curator Scott Townsend not to b...
6 years, 4 months ago
The political economy of David Bowie:
http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/the-political-economy-of-david-bowie/

6 years, 4 months ago
62 people own same as half world – Oxfam! Is this the reality we want to tolerate???
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2016/01/62-people-own-same-as-half-world-says-oxfam-inequality-report-davos-world-economic-forum?intcmp=HPWWLWP_grid_davospr
6 years, 4 months ago
Here is a great session on institutional critique. It is focused on art, but this stuff can be very well used for non art institutions as well. Its really important stuff for a imaginative process of redirecting communication/design and art.
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Sean Penn, interviews El Chapo Guzman, shortly before he gets captured again:
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/el-chapo-speaks-20160109


6 years, 4 months ago
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6 years, 5 months ago
This visualisation is quite amazing!
https://92f9e7be6484d407e55a143e88b6c707cbafb1de.googledrive.com/host/0B2GQktu-wcTicEI5VUZaYnM1emM/
Isn't population stop growing?


Username
lisagye
Name
Lisa Gye
Gender
female
Country
Australia
Website
Description
I'm an educator, activist, media maker and sometime writer who is interested in social justice, social change, critical theory and media practices.
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
making a difference. I believe in making media that matters and I am passionate about sharing this with other people who feel the same way.
Education
Politics and Media
Working place
Swinburne University
Collaborators
Oliver Vodeb, Darren Tofts, Danny Butt, Andrew Dodd, Fibreculture network, my colleagues & students
Music I like
Calexico
The Avett Brothers
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Joni Mitchell
Beck
Billy Bragg
Aretha Franklin
Cowboy Junkies
Sonic Youth
Gillian Welch
Too too many others
Books I like
Anything by Jacques Derrida
Doreen Massey For Space
Wanderlust Rebecca Solnit
Debating Derrida Niall Lucy
Memory Trade Darren Tofts
Applied Grammatology Gregory Ulmer
The Medium is the Massage Marshall McLuhan
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Practice of Everyday Life Michel De Certeau
A History of Reading Alberto Manguel
Anything by Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Ian McEwan, Greil Marcus, Mark Amerika.
Zadie Smith On Beauty
Films I like
Django Unchained
Pulp Fiction
Once Upon a Time in the West
Fargo
Whatever happened to Baby Jane
To Kill a Mockingbird
Cape Fear
Spirited Away
Once upon a time in America
Inglourious Basterds
Unforgiven
La Dolce Vita
Wings of Desire
Cigarettes and Coffee
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Midnight in Paris
Communication projects I like
Memefest :)
The People's Tour
The Yes Men
Soda Jerk
Engage Media
Media that Matters
Reel Lives
People I like
Too many to mention

6 years, 2 months ago