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24.06.2019
A CALL TO RESPOND
Issue six of the Equal Standard finds us delving into the world of extremes. Let us know what you think! We are now accepting written and artwork submissions until 5 AUGUST, 2019. To find out more, visit the submission page of the website: https://theequalstandard.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
How do we as a society make space for the “extreme”? How could we come to a…
09.06.2019
We have lately again become interested into Culture Jamming, a practice we have been very involved in in the early 2000' and have been nurturing for many years. At the very start of Memefest Culture Jamming was central to our understanding that we can reclaim the media and that media interventions should to be fun.
Lot's has happened since than and Culture Jamming became for a while very popul…
11.02.2019
The Situationists had an immense influence on Memefest from its very beginnings in 2002. The concepts of détournement and dérive played a big role in developing our own tactics and are still part of Memefest arsenal of tools when we develop public interventions or teach about them.
One of the very important tactics Memefest used is publishing, which we see as a intervention into the public sp…
27.12.2018
A project aiming to establish a heightened sense of connectivity between the chef, the kitchen and the community
We are students that have spent three weeks in Patan, Nepal developing a body of work surrounding the concepts of unlearning photography and pleasure media through the lens of food
To see more find us on instagram @cookupdialogue
24.12.2018
Food democracy is sold out and is now being reprinted. The only change will be a slightly thicker cover. Thinking of the undisciplining and extradisciplinary nature of our intellectual cullture, methodology, pedagogy, our activist history and not at least the very publishing culture behind this book we like to think of this as a great achievement. This would not be possible without the deep colla…
08.11.2018
The fine people at RMIT are together with @frasermuggeridgestudio organizing this conference at RMIT Barcelona titled The Anatomy of the Book. It really is great staff, and if you have a chance, go and participate- the conference is free! Check more here on the web site:
RMIT Europe, Barcelona
Monday 26 November
A free one-day conference dissecting the contemporary book from a range of pe…
26.10.2018
Dear comrades,
our friends from Universidad Caldas in Manizales Colombia have made this video to draw attention to the extremely bad situation in Colombian higher education, which has reached a stage that urged some of the professors and a student to begin with hunger strikes.
Universidad Caldas is tightly connected to Memefest. For years there has been an operating local Memefest node. R…
05.10.2018
Hi all,
Extending this.
And corrected the email address below, apologies! The one there is now correct.
I am posting a small job for a Communications Designer.
I'm looking for someone located in Melbourne Australia.
Please send on if you know anyone here that might be interested.
Thanks so much, Annette!
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Insight Maps is a start up based in Melbourne Australia.
Targeting p…
03.09.2018
Here is full info on the book:
Food Democracy, Critical Lessons in Food, Communication, Design and art. Edited, curated and written by Oliver Vodeb, Published by Intellect Books, Uk
We worked hard to keep the price of the book low. BUY THE BOOK HERE OR HERE- check what works better for you.
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What prompted you to create Food Democracy?
I am mostly developing research around w…
19.08.2018
This text was originally written during the Declarations conference at Concordia University in 2001 in Montreal, Canada.
It was at that time when we were preparing the first Memefest, which happened in 2002. Based in Ljubljana, Slovenia we felt truly inspired to read this lines and learn more about the Declarations event. It showed us that there is a really impressive and organized scene of d…