9 hours, 52 minutes ago
We are sad that Felix Beltran is not with us anymore. We met Felix in Havana in 2016 when we did Memefest there. He was one of the most important Latino American designers and the key designer in the Cuban revolution as well as the communist party in the Castro regime. The design tradition he was co developing is close to our hearts, infused by critical theory and daring visual language, his aim was to steer the viewer away from beeing a consumer of images. We also think he did really beautiful work. I also have one of his original prints, this op art poster from 1969 I got in Havana in a dusty book store. Here is a little piece about Felix and his work: https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-felix-beltran-art-director/

1 month ago
Hello comrades,
Memefest never had an Instagram account but as we recently were in Saigon, our students insisted and created one. It will be updated, please follow if you like: https://www.instagram.com/memefest_network/
1 year, 4 months ago
Hello Comrades,
here is a little gift for you.
Culture Jamming Australia! Part political satire, part eco-horror, part road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema cannon. I could not recommend it more!
Read full description and watch it via the link bellow- online only till September 20th.
https://www.e-flux.com/video/416793/terror-nullius/
2 years, 3 months ago
This is super: between 1st- 31st October 2020 anyone can get 30% off the Food Democracy book online using the code FAN30 at the checkout!!
https://intellectbooks.com/food-democracy

2 years, 3 months ago
David Graeber was connected to Memefest mostly via his incredible work on Debt.
This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so suddenly and unexpectedly. The invitation emerges from his wife Nika and a handful of his friends.
https://davidgraeber.industries/memorial-carnival-eng
2 years, 6 months ago
Here is the sound file of the dialogue between Arturo Escobar and I at the recent Participatory design conference at the Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. It was such a pleasure and honor to talk to Arturo but also pure joy to be connected again with Colombia again and in especially in this a way!!
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The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar have in this special dialogue, Participatory Design Conference at the 2020 Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, looked into the radical potential of participation and design, especially in relation to knowledge. Taking a close look at the relations between the academy, practitioners and social movements, the dialogue focused on the politics of the possible, namely, a reality open for cohabitation of different worlds by design.
The conversation examined the potential for epistemic pluralism and participatory epistemologies to foster radical intimacy with each other and the earth. Looking at the growing field of critical design, Vodeb and Escobar discussed capitalism’s predatory strategies and design's role in it, while suggesting that another design, and another possible, are possible.
More on Arturo Escobar here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Esco…_(anthropologist)
More on Oliver Vodeb here: memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/
2 years, 8 months ago
You can join now our Memefest channel via the Telegram app:
https://t.me/memefestnetwork

2 years, 8 months ago
"What kind of problem succumbs to domination and control? The kind caused by something from the outsi..."
2 years, 9 months ago
I will be posting three lectures on comradeship by Jodi Dean in the coming weeks. Here is the first one:
Learning about comradeship with Jodi Dean: Class 1

2 years, 9 months ago
"Hi Thomas, really nice to hear from you!
I know what you mean. We left the post online for a day an..."

2 years, 9 months ago
"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."
2 years, 11 months ago
The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
Edited by: Alex Wardrop and Deborah Withers
2014
There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.
http://hammeronpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PHA_Final.pdf

2 years, 11 months ago
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
3 years, 1 month ago
Merry Christmas everyone! As the holidays center so much around food, family and community we'd like to give you a little gift.
Produced by Goucher student Kylie Miller, hosted by Kylie Miller and Tashi McQueen, Featuring Eric Jackson and Floyd Godsey this podcast presents the amazing and inspiring work on Food Apartheid our brothers and sisters at the Black Yield Institute in Baltimore are doing.
The podcast is one of the many outcomes of Baltimore's Food Apartheid, a collaboration between Goucher College, Black Yield Institute and Memefest, which happened in November in Baltimore.
https://goucherstudentradio.com/2019/12/03/baltimores-food-apartheid-a-podcast-about-black-yield-institute/

3 years, 1 month ago
Montreal friends, come and join us this coming Wednesday:
Members of the Memefest Network were recently in Baltimore, USA working with the Black Yield Institute and students at Goucher College tackling the subject of Baltimore's Food Apartheid. Food Democracy/Food Sovereignty has been a focus of Memefest's work over the last few years and it was a special opportunity for us to work with Black Yield, an amazing community organisation based out of Cherry Hill who seek to "Cultivate Self-Determination Through Black Land & Food Sovereignty".
Memefest's Oliver Vodeb and Vida Voncina, who will be visiting Montreal, alongside Kevin Lo (LOKI/Memefest) are interested in presenting a public debrief and discussion on the work done with BYI and Goucher, as well as the Memefest Network and project more broadly. We invite those interested in design and media activism, radical pedagogy, food justice (and more!) to join us for a casual "salon" at LOKI's studio.
See more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/571852240242300/

--Daniel
3 years, 2 months ago
The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.
Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:
https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html

3 years, 2 months ago
The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.
Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:
https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html


3 years, 2 months ago
"As we are working a lot with photographers here is an article on Afrapix, a radical photo collective..."

3 years, 2 months ago
"Here are some great links sent to me by Pamela from Goucher, they are very useful resources, so I am..."


Username
mardinoir
Name
Arzhel Prioul
Birth year
1981
Gender
male
Country
France
Website
Description
Mardi Noir usually decontextualizes Art by taking it out galleries or studios, to give it back to the city and its inhabitants. Here, he re-contextualizes his urban art by having it into the gallery. Sliding in Mardi Noir’s work is all about contradictions: the anachronistic presence of things already went off, unusable pictures of ordinary objects, things that constitute itself the space in the space. Mardi Noir fills up deserted places with murals of furniture or with inhabitants coming from the past. Those men and anachronistic objects on the walls become themselves the spatial framing of the setting. There are like frozen in an impossible boundary, both containers and contents. Tapestry is the object halfway between furniture and property that also opens a virtual space of illustrations and patterns. The re-appropriation practice of pictographs, peculiar to Mardi Noir seems to take part in the defacement of the public or market worlds. The logo, meant to associate the individual with brands and values, becomes the artist’s work. He gets hold of it, takes their owners’ place to give them back to everybody, like a Robin Hood of the picture. He turns them into a real liveable decor instead of the pseudo advertising or institutional designs that bother more the citizen than makes the city more attractive. Pictographs initially never fit in spaces; they are pasted up and virtualize life. Then twisting them is finally including them in a true context in which everyone can be what they are and not the consumer or the bound subject they should be. R.Edelman

2 years, 6 months ago
More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)