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27.05.2011

D'interdisciplinaire à international, le OFFTA explose!

« 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…

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24.05.2011

The City of Women is no coincidence

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…

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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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07.04.2011

Cárcel para castigar la piratería en Colombia

Se acaba de abrir el debate en Colombia, acerca de la piratería, los derechos de autor y la forma de compartir contenidos en internet. Estamos ante una ley que puede llevar a la cárcel a quien viole y comparta información que esté protegida. La discusión apenas comenzó y ya tiene divido al país entorno al tema de la libertad de expresión y el libre intercambio de información y contenidos.

El …

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30.03.2011

Demonstrating Relevance: Response- Ability. Memefest exhibition in Ljubljana

Monday evening we opened first exhibition in a series of four. The exhibition will travel to Koper, Berlin and to this years final event held at Oddstream festival in Nijmegen in June. Exhibited are selected works from this years Friendly competition and past festivals. Works are presented in all different media, for you to see, read, listen, play with and reflect.

The event was very pleasant…

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25.03.2011

Trueque Digital Vol 2

La gran fiesta del intercambio digital se acerca y ya todo el mundo esta preparando sus CDs DVDs y USBs para cc-ompartir información. El trueque digital es una gran iniciativa de varias organizaciones, que promueven la libre cultura en Bogotá, y su idea es generar un espacio que permita el intercambio de conocimiento digital de manera legal.

http://www.truequedigital.phunik.com/

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24.03.2011

what about now?

Should we be asking ourselves if the natural and political events have a certain pattern? I think not.
There is no way, nature and politics work as a team - no way! But we could exclude the team work and talk about individual projects, one natural and other political.
The problem with the natural project is that we have no word or way to influence it. It is already planned in advance due to s…

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19.03.2011

REFF AR Youth Program

REFF AR Youth Program is a special program of Education & Learning enacted by REFF to ensure the immediate distribution of its Augmented Rreality Drug to young generations.

The Program consists in a series of theoretical and practical workshops exploring the possibilities offered by fake, remix, recontextualization, plagiarism and reenactment as a tool for methodological reinvention of reality…

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15.03.2011

again

I guess I am stuck in this blogal warning era and area. Still thinking of power and love.
Power is actually achievable through many means: money, strength, fear, intelligence...Power is also measurable - it is also a physical entity and used in calculations. Power can be contained, it can be of many shapes and sizes and types. Power can be always overcome.
Love is not easily achievable. You can…

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08.03.2011

blogal warning

Where did the whole global warming issue and media coverage disappear? I think it is not an issue anymore. Maybe they fixed it. I seem to see only riots in the countries of the Middle East and preparation for song contest.
I think the whole global warming changed into blogal warning.
The blog era has spread so quickly, man could not get prepared properly. Everyone has his/her own blog now. All…