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04.03.2012
Convocar, discutir, debatir, experimentar y sentirte cercano al otro son acciones necesarias para crear nuevos puentes de comunicación.
Memefest México tiene como objetivo congregar para discutir juntos temas que a todos nos interesan y preocupan como sociedad y sobre los cuales todos tenemos una postura.
Nadie está solo, las conexiones son bastas en el mundo, las sociedades evolucionan, …
26.01.2012
It was in 2004, when we created a whole Memefest Festival around the Cyberwar theme. Besides the "Design is not enough" manifesto, the main text that served as a festival provocation for people around the world to create media and texts, was "Cyberwar is coming." It was a highly important but also popular theme with our community
Few days ago, this video was published by the Anonymous group, d…
13.01.2012
04.01.2012
MEMEFEST, in conjunction with OCCUPY BRISBANE and The Free University of (Occupied) Brisbane Presents:
OCCUPY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPACE:
Response-Ability, Socially Responsive Media and Communication Workshop
Participants will include members of the Brisbane Memefest Collective, members of Occupy Brisbane Media Working Group and other participants or supporters of Occupy Brisbane.
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25.11.2011
The seed of an idea for an interdisciplinary design practice that goes out of its way to recognise and affirm "goodness" in the world while agitating for needed change. It is a model that values diversity of approach and personality, and attempts to avoid the well trodden patterns of "conservative" and "radical" behaviour.
"Sch/ism": A divided design studio
Pleasure/Provocation
Affirmati…
13.11.2011
In this short curated series that i'll call Blogging TV, we will have a look at some of the previous moving images Memefest submissions now all published at MEMETV. Here is the first one:
Empire is a 1 minute long video sequence of still webcam images of the \"Europa Center\" - Berlin - downloaded from the web and re-processed in Italy. Audio track is a sonic montage of fields recordings from …
30.09.2011
Dear Memefest comrades,
We're going to have a Digital Culture festival here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December. And we applied for the open call for projects. We want to heat up the discussion towards socially responsive communication in a local sphere, in contact with people from all over the world, and the sky is the limit...
So, today is the last day of the voting process (that's no…
30.09.2011
Há mapas para publicar aqui, produzidos no encontro em Nijmegen, Holanda, em junho. Um deles ganhará uma versão digital interativa, os outros foram impressos em camisetas. São maneiras experimentais de visualizar conflitos.
Outras visualidades e pesquisas cartográficas, à maneira situacionista, têm ganhado espaços de experimentação e vivências pelo Rio: o Laboratório de Cartografias Insurgente…
28.09.2011
During all the years of my work in advertising I always had very ambivalent feelings about it. Part of me loved it for endless possibilities of creative opportunities while bigger part of me hated it for having to act against my political and personal values.
I'm sure many co-workers also experienced similar feelings but decided to stay, as it appears this is one of those "take it or leave i…