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10.06.2011
Indeed it was magic. And radical. Memefest "Mapping socially responsive communication" workshop brought together almost thirty fantastic thinkers, educators, designers, artists, activists, students, researchers, proffesionals and above all: good people from arround the world together for eight days of dialogue, work, inspiration and fun. We all came to beautifull Nijmegen's Oddstream festival and…
10.06.2011
09.06.2011
The week at Memefest Festival of Radical Communications on mapping socially responsive communications as provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on what it means to make communications that address societal problems. Oliver Vodeb described seven characteristics of socially responsive communications as a starting point from which the group assembled to build on the theory by creating new maps. …
09.06.2011
I was one who asked the male panel at Memefest's Festival of Radical Communications 'Inspiration day' why there were no women presenters. I think it's worth unpacking this topic a little with the intention of helping Memefest develop into an network with strong input from women and other marginalised voices. Diversity of representation should by now be standard practice in any international netw…
27.05.2011
« C'est le coup d'envoi! » lance Jasmine Catudal d'un air défiant, pour désigner la belle soirée d'ouverture du OFFTA qui attend les montréalais ce vendredi 27 mai. Celle qui cumule les chapeaux de directrice générale et artistique du plus hybride des festivals de Montréal a le sourire collé aux lèvres. Mais pourquoi donc? Qui a t-il de si explosif dans cette 5ème édition du Festival d'arts vivan…
24.05.2011
On a hot spring night, Mara Vujić, director of the City of Women Festival, accepted to answer a few questions. A couple days later, the woman from Slovenia sent back the 'intervju', as she calls it. This is all just online foreplay but you better get ready: Mara's coming to town!
FD: City of Women is the name of your project. Is it pure
coincidence or is there a reason that it has the same n…
13.05.2011
11.05.2011
Case study: Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Humanites in a self-imposed crisis
End of October 2010 this document :
http://www.memefest.org/shared/Faculty_of_Arts_web_design.pdf
was sent to the mailing list of the Board for the defense of Higher education and scientific work by a professor of the Faculty of Arts. The board is a loose civil initiative consisting of academic staff…
28.04.2011
We present in cooperatin with Loesje, Masta and Kulturlabor Trial&Error:
The Memefest exhibition: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Response-Ability” with selected visual communication works and critical content from all over the world.
An event for interactive participation to emancipate, reinterpret and act!
>>> and in German <<<
Die Memefest Ausstellung: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Respon…
24.04.2011
Não foi uma decisão fácil. Muitos participantes enviaram bons trabalhos para o festival desse ano. Dentre esses, os mentores do workshop - Oliver Vodeb, Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber e Jason Grant - tiveram a difícil tarefa de escolher quais seriam convidados para Nijmegen, Holanda, em junho desse ano. Os critérios para participação no workshop de comunicação socialme…
