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20.01.2011
I am interested in how representations of Nature in the media and popular culture effect our attitudes towards Nature. I would like to study this phenomenon and could use some help from you, yes you reader. I need more examples. I am going to try and crowd source visual samples. Please help me out by visiting this new blog: http://decoding.posterous.com . Read the brief descriptions of the main …
19.01.2011
It's on campus in Bangalore, on campus in Melbourne and then again in Berlin and Montreal. The Korsakow System is on! "The what?," I thought, scratching my head. "Yeah, you know, Korsakow is a principle, a logic, with its own rules and structure," media artist Florian Thalhofer (http://www.thalhofer.com/) tells me over the phone. And so it is. Florian is the guy behind Korsakow. And to make thing…
15.01.2011
DEMOSTRANDO RELEVANCIA: RESPONS-HABILIDAD ahora disponible.
Teoría, práctica e imaginación de la comunicación socialmente responsable
Lo mejor de lo mejor de Memefests pasados + nuevas reflexiones.
Para más información, visita el siguiente enlace (en inglés)
http://www.memefest.org/demonstratingrelevance/en/
12.01.2011
Pocos dias quedan para que termine el plazo para presentar tu trabajo en nuestra competición Amistosa. A medida que llegan los primeros trabajos -ya podemos decir que hay algunos fantásticos trabajos incluídos- quisieramos darte algunas pistas.
1. Categoría de practicas visuales de comunicaciones:
http://www.memefest.org/profile/SanFrancisco/blogs/2011/01/practica-en-comunicacin-visual-line…
09.01.2011
Few more days are left for you to finish your works and submit to our Friendly competition. As first works are coming in- we can say so far some fantastic works included- we want to give you a few hints.
1. Visual communications practice category:
http://www.memefest.org/en/competition/visualcommunicationpractice_2010outlines/
make sure you respond the the festival outline LOVE:CONFLICT:…
02.01.2011
This might come as a surprise, but most of so called »socially engaged« communication is either not effective or even counterproductive. Why? The main reason is that such communication is conceived in the same way as marketing communication for a product or service. The difference is content, but the perspective from which such communication starts and the dynamics it produces in the public spher…
08.12.2010
I just received this email. Let's do something!
Dear Sir/Madam,
BOOKS4VIJECNICA is an action project, initiated by Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Our initiative is to re-establish the destroyed book collection of Vijecnica, the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina !
During the four-year long siege of Sarajevo, from 1992 till 1995, Vijecnica was…
09.10.2010
I have been working on this project with my studio for almost a year now. It is a completely new field for me- fashion. But what we are trying to do here is to change the very logic of the fashion business. Open source, participation, community education and peer to peer economic models are probably the main key words. Here is a nice video about the thoughts of our workshop participants, who have…
02.10.2010
I have started to be interested in mapping projects long ago. The first really inspiring project i saw some 8 years ago was the ongoing "mapping of power structures" project dome by Bureau d' etudes and Memefest collaborator Brian Holmes. Here is one example of this fantastic work: http://bureaudetudes.org/files/2010/01/wordlgov2005.pdf
This was also something, that fascinated me: Skitter grap…