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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. …
02.06.2011
I am still searching for someone who can hold a lecture on the workshop from the sociologistic or philosophical point of view, if you are interested, please contact me via tinosestric_at_gmail.com. we are quite in a hurry!
Also anyone, who would like to be on the workshop, can apply on the same email.
(read vajkard_info.pdf in the link)
more on the project here:
http://www.memefest.org/e…
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…
15.04.2011
It was not a easy decision to make. To many participants submitted good work to this year’s festival, too many of you we would like to work with in our workshop. However, we had to make a decision. Workshop mentors: Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber, Jason Grant and myself were first discussing criteria than we selected separate lists and in the end one list of twenty p…
05.04.2011
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…
19.03.2011
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…
19.03.2011
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 …
19.02.2011
In the last blog post we have been discussing some aspects about mapping possibilities of socially responsive communication and the difference between such communications to (social) marketing.
Thanks for all the comments, i believe we are getting closer to a start of understanding what needs to be included in the concept of our workshop in a few months.
Experimental geography has inspiring…
07.02.2011
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…
30.01.2011
Not long ago i announced that part of Memefest award will be a invitation to participate in the special workshop titled Mapping Socially responsive communication in June 2011.
http://www.memefest.org/en/memeblog/2011/01/memefest-awards-mapping-socially-responsive-communication-workshop/?showme=1
Many of you have shown great interest to participate in this and we are very much looking forwar…