skndugan
DESIGNER + ACTIVIST + ARTIST + PHOTOGRAPHER + CONCEPTUALIST + ART_DIRECTOR + WRITER
4 years, 4 months ago
I remember Memefest 2014, here in Melbourne.
Our theme was Dialogue, more precisely "Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in our Times". Giving my lecture at the symposium I was explaining how much effort we were putting into programming and designing an autonomous online social network on memefest.org and how funny and sad it is that so many artists, activists etc. actually use pretty much exclusively Facebook to network and self promote. What we could observe back than was a strong indicator or what is happening now. Facebook is not a place for non profits, activists, artists groups, because our outreach is dictated by how much we are willing to pay. Not paying for our posts on FB simply means our reach will be super small, like 3 % of our following on a FB page. It is very important to understand this. Memefest is a free for all social network, no surveillance, no data mining, no advertising, no payment, and a community that is actually reading the posts, not just scanning and linking them. So lets keep on being active here and nurture this space, and make use of it!
4 years, 3 months ago
We are inviting you to the book launch of Food Democracy by Oliver Vodeb, Saturday March 17h @ 2pm!
Called by the publisher Intellect books UK “A new type of academic book”, and by reviewers “a seminal text”, “urgent” and “extraordinary”, Food Democracy asks how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption. More than four years in making and more than 200 people involved in this extradisciplinary research, Food Democracy by Oliver Vodeb is out now.
The beautifully designed full color book also includes for the first time a unique and delicious compilation of socially engaged cooking recipes by the academic, design, artist and activist community. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, Food Democracy is essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.
Melbourne Design Week 2018 is brought to you by the National Gallery of Victoria in partnership with Creative Victoria.
The book presentation will be followed by a discussion with Daryl Taylor and the audience
Link to NGV website: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/food-democracy-book-launch/
Link to book: http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
Book launch at:
Saturday March 17th
2pm–3pm
Testing Grounds
Booking is not required.
1-23 City Rd, Southbank, Melbourne

4 years, 4 months ago
This is a fantastic text on the state of today's universities:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/whose-university-is-it-anyway/#!
4 years, 5 months ago
Community Harvest Project
Hello all! I find this super meaningful and I am seeking your support. I have been participating in ...
4 years, 6 months ago
Read about the ZAD, the largest squat on Europe, in the Guardian article bellow. After years of successfully defending the ZAD from the French authorities a new wave of threatening eviction is under way.
"The story of “la ZAD” in western France began more than half a century ago, when the French government earmarked the site for a new airport as part of a plan to create a transatlantic “Great West” gateway to France and Europe.
Years of consultations, arguments and indecision supposedly ended in 2008, when the €580 million project was given official approval. The squatters began arriving the same year, claiming they were responding to an appeal from farmers fighting compulsory purchase orders. No airport-related construction has since taken place on the 1,650-hectare site."
Full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/28/end-of-la-zad-frances-utopian-anti-airport-community-faces-bitter-last-stand?CMP=share_btn_fb
4 years, 5 months ago
No Alternative
How culture jamming was culture-jammed
http://reallifemag.com/no-alternative/

4 years, 5 months ago
"Hi uli.l, I just checked and the book is available online, for example here on Book Depository: http..."
4 years, 6 months ago
Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone Into a Home Security System
https://www.wired.com/story/snowden-haven-app-turns-phone-into-home-security-system/
4 years, 6 months ago
“Weaponized Pleasure”
Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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4 years, 6 months ago
“Weaponized Pleasure”
Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
https://player.pippa.io/teamhuman/episodes/ep67-genesis-breyer-p-orridge-weaponized-pleasure
4 years, 6 months ago
Food Democracy book presentation Webinar!
Three weeks ago I did this live Webinar with Online School of Food Design founder Francesca Zampollo...
4 years, 6 months ago
Respect is when you change your own life. Public space is where you share that possibility.
Check this: Driving the Golden Spike, The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space by Brian Holmes
http://deeptimechicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Holmes-Golden-Spike.pdf
4 years, 7 months ago
Here a link to the Food Democracy book Webinar I did this morning with Francesca Zampollo and food designers from around the world- it is now online.
Note, it was 5 am for me here in Melbourne and I am not a coffee drinker! :) I presented our wonderful Food Democracy book more in detail and after that we had a good discussion on several issues presented in the book.
Here another link to the book with links where you can get your own copy
http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8D1G4gwwVA
4 years, 7 months ago
Food Democracy Webinar!
Dear Friends, join us for the FOOD DEMOCRACY live Webinar where I will be together with Franceska Fr...
4 years, 7 months ago
So this is cool. A project to fight scams/ scamers. So next time you get a scam email, exmpl. someone wants to send you 5 million USD out of nothing send the email you have received to me@rescam.org
But check out this video that explains it all:
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/141287/overcoming-internet-disillusionment-on-the-principles-of-meme-design/
5 years ago
Here an interview tactical media guru and director of the Institute of Network culture in Amsterdam Geert Lovink made with me on the addictive power of Memes. It is their crucial nature in my opinion and never it became as explicit as now. It is crucial to understand these characteristics of memes in order to develop responses to the current media environment. There is also a crucial shift in the way visual memes operate and in the very logic of communication design.
http://networkcultures.org/geert/2017/06/22/interview-with-oliver-vodeb-memefest-on-the-addictive-power-of-memes-today/
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/141287/overcoming-internet-disillusionment-on-the-principles-of-meme-design/
4 years, 8 months ago
I'm ecstatic, I just found a way to use my art & design to help an environmental issue close to my heart, & leave a positive legacy for thousands of years! It's already a proven successful strategy & of course one day other factors may reduce its effectiveness but finding a greater purpose for my creativity has been a struggle for me for some years. I'll write about it soon. :)


Username
skndugan
Name
Sarah Dugan
Birth year
1987
Gender
female
Country
Canada
Website
Description
I graduated from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2012 with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communications Design. After a brief break to backpack through 9 countries in Asia by myself I moved across Canada to Toronto, Ontario to pursue my Master of Design at York University. My graduate research has been a visual exploration in addressing the mass commodification of factory farm animals, countering the absent referent of meat products and looking at ways to challenge the human gaze in the power dynamic between human as subject over factory farm animal as object. In the last 3 years I have had the opportunity to have a solo exhibition and a group exhibition of my work, self publish my first book on homelessness and am now working on my second, and have been invited to lecture at two conferences on the role of art direction in social cause campaigns. I have high hopes of incorporating the criticality in my creative work I have developed over the last few years into a future full time position in my field.
Faculty
MDes (York University)
Education
BDes (Alberta College of Art + Design)

4 years, 3 months ago