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28.04.2011

Call Center Experience!

Hi all. I'd like to share with you a brand-new-project we've been working on for last mounths. Its name is Call Center Experience! and is about discovering the persons behind call center agents.
This video is part of a website which will be online for public use next days. I hope you enjoy it!

http://www.vimeo.com/22373885?ab

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19.04.2011

Hopenhagen: Design Activism as an Oxymoron

Abstract for the Design History Society conference Design Activism and Social Change. See blog for more pictures and links: http://ecolabs.posterous.com/

Hopenhagen was an initiative by the International Advertising Association in support of the United Nations at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen December 2009. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UN asked for help from t…

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05.04.2011

The Occupation Cookbook

I just received this through email. It's very much worth posting here. This is a reaction on the strong process of blind marketization of European Universities.
Instead of nurturing universities a places of emancipatory, critical, innovative, original thought, they are becoming more and more places of teaching skills. Theory is being marginalized and with that professions are doomed to become i…

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19.03.2011

An Augmented Reality drug distributed in London

REFF – RomaEuropa FakeFactory, FakePress, Art is Open Source

present:

REFF AR Drugs in London.

A Fake Cultural Institution, an Augmented Reality drug and the reinvention of reality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CfET1YyyKs

REFF, the fake institution created in 2009 to enact innovative cultural policies all over the world, during its first international exhibit in London lunched …

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24.02.2011

help to stop killing of protesters in libya

Dear friends,

Hundreds of democracy protesters are being massacred by Qaddafi's military in Libya. The UN is in emergency meetings right now and could freeze the regime's assets, impose a no-fly zone, and threaten trials in international courts. Tell the UN to act now to stop the bloodshed:

Libya's armed forces are using machine guns and fighter jets against pro-democracy protesters -…

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24.02.2011

Memefest latinoamérica: um convite

O mundo por aqui tem estado rodopiante - nas melhores voltas. E o de vocês? É engraçado escrever em português num ambiente que mistura tantas vozes - mas então, é uma voz que ouvem alguns, multiplicantes, e talvez outros tentem decifrar.

Entre voos e cotidianos, sempre me interessei por política. Só que, diferentemente do que pensam alguns, política não se faz só com políticos, nem com notícia…

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21.02.2011

Ethnic first look.

It`s been a while since I start this project and memefest has been a importa part since, i just wil like to say that i work and i been inspired by the content of all this hard work from memefest. open my eyes to new frontier of knowledge so this project is part of this journey of confronting reallity to a point of view. so thanks memefest for all this years of inspiration and consiousnes thanks…

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07.02.2011

Diskurs univerziteta

Danas je više-manje jasno da su univerziteti u stvarnoj konjunkciji sa kapitalizmom, tržištem i vlašću, kao i da većina današnjih sumljivih intelektualnih umova podržava tržnu logiku univerziteta itd., pa shodno tome treba se zapitati, da li zasedanje univerziteta danas ima smisao? U skladu sa tim pitanjem, daje se i sam odgovor. Ako parafraziram Lakana, mogli bismo reći da na fakulitetima i univ…

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05.02.2011

Assimilação

Depois dos trabalhos recebidos, conferir se todos foram submetidos corretamente, selecionar, enviar para os curadores e enfim publicar os vencedores.

É louvável a iniciativa de tentar criar possibilidades comunicativas viáveis, inteligentes que que apontam para novos horizontes. Alguns dos trabalhos que criamos demoramos para saber como enquadrar nesta ou naquela categoria, mas aos poucos vam…

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05.02.2011

Toxicómano callejero

"El Kolectivo Toxicómano Callejero es un grupo de científicos antisociales, de-mentes audiovisuales y algunos punks con ánimo de lucro, que se encargan de combatir la estupidez, la ignorancia, la moral (sencilla y doble), las buenas costumbres, la fe y el orden, mediante sonoros atentados visuales."

Los invito a que conozcan el trabajo de estos artistas punks y callejeros que invaden las calle…