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Just got an email with this wonderful Snowmen by the fantastic Milan Erič. His humor and playful work always make me happy. In the name of the whole Memefest collective I wish you all the best in the next year. Let's continue the good work.

oliver

art photography community

http://www.thebubbleproject.com/

noemi

art communication activism

Credited to Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons and the National Film Board of Canada this is one of the most beautiful and strong pieces of interactive story telling I have seen and one of my favourite works submitted to Memefest.

In the authors words: "Imagine your hometown never changed. That no one ever grew old or moved on. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point…

oliver

media photography community technology

Next one on our Blogging TV - images from MemeTV -series. This one was submitted to our second festival in year 2003. Really nice. I wonder what the author - Marco Perugini is doing this days.

oliver

video

I have recently been asked by D_magazin, to write a review of the 5th Biannual of visual communication of Slovenia, as student newspaper Tribuna took part in it and has recieved the award for type design, the award for editoral design and the grand award. I have to stress, that my personal reason for participation was one of "infiltration", to see, if my critical stance to such events is justifie…

aljaz

critique

Few days ago, students in solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement peacefully protested at University California Davis. What happened became news around the world. It showed the nature of a big part of the corporate University systen through the naked violence that was employed that very day on campus. It showed how far a University system can go to preserve it's corporate status quo. It sho…

oliver

art media activism education

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

http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-killing-of-dogs-and-cats-for-the-european-football-championship#

"Why This Is Important

Dear President Viktor Yanukovych, dear Uefa President Michel Platini, dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

with deep sadness and horror I read about the planned and already started killing of dogs and cats in preparation for the UEFA European Football Championship 2012…

noemi

critique

Here is the next video from this short curated blogging TV from MemeTV series.

It was produced by students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, as part of a nation wide campaign we did at Poper studio. http://poper.si/pozivlja/

The campaign was critiquing the Slovene involvement in the war in Afganistan..
You will see four figures, "Kurents" in the video. More about them …

oliver

video

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