6 years, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Expanded social documentary: strategies, techniques, and experimental forms.

6 years, 4 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, 5 months ago
The political economy of David Bowie:
http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/the-political-economy-of-david-bowie/

6 years, 5 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, 5 months ago
Right wing party is gouverning again in Argentina and I've been thinking a lot these days about Memefest 2012. Debt is again in the center of the scene, after 12 years. Luckily we have more tools to understand what's going on and to fight against neoliberalism.
6 years, 5 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, 5 months ago
"test..."
6 years, 6 months ago
This visualisation is quite amazing!
https://92f9e7be6484d407e55a143e88b6c707cbafb1de.googledrive.com/host/0B2GQktu-wcTicEI5VUZaYnM1emM/
Isn't population stop growing?
6 years, 6 months ago
You Can Actually Hear the Climate Changing
Bernie Krause’s vast library of field recordings reveals a sad truth: wild sounds are quickly vanishing
http://www.outsideonline.com/2035701/bernie-krause-audio-climate-change
6 years, 7 months ago
Brandalism: 600 ad takeovers in Paris before the COP21 Climate Conference
http://www.streetartnews.net/2015/11/brandalism-600-ad-takeovers-in-paris.html


Username
milenag
Name
milena garcia
Birth year
1973
Gender
female
Country
Colombia
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
Memefest me mostró que a través del diseño, yo también podría participar de una discusión real y necesaria acerca de lo que esta pasando con la comunicación visual en el mundo que habitamos.
No todo puede ser vendido, ni comprado. Para eso ya esta la publicidad.
Education
Diseñadora visual
Music I like
Amo la música, sin ella no puedo vivir.
Todo el buen Trip-hop.
Los clásicos del rock.
Y conmovedoras voces femeninas.
Books I like
Más que títulos, autores: Ernesto Sábato, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chejov, José Saramago, Marguerite Yourcenar, Saul Bellow, Paul Auster y otros más... Leer me salva.

6 years, 3 months ago