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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, …

ethnicmx

society communication activism community

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…

oliver

communication activism video technology

Poster for Occupy London given away in 1000 copies with issue 2 of the The Occupied Times, the camp Newspaper

Download A3 version here:

http://www.noeldouglas.net/occupyeverywhereA3.pdf

Noel

art communication activism design

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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oliver

communication activism education

http://www.thebubbleproject.com/

noemi

art communication activism

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…

Imp

communication activism design community

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 …

oliver

art photography communication video

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…

inesnin

media culture communication community

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…

inesnin

media culture communication community

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…

karm3ns33ta

media society communication critique