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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…
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…
19.01.2018
Food/Media/Crisis:
Memefest Los Angeles sessions
Feb 9-10, 2018
Pomona College LA
A special two-day workshop / critical discussion facilitated by Memefest on the intersections of Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics.
This workshop will examine the corporate takeover of our food by connecting Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics. Food/…
10.04.2017
The Second International Swinburne Memefest Extradisciplinary Symposium, Workshop/ Interventions event was held from November 21-28th at Swinburne University in Melbourne. This was the fourth Memefest event held in Australia, (check links to previous events at bottom of this post) and it continued to implement the unique Memefest approach to education, research and public engagement.
25.02.2017
What we see as the outward visual denotation of urban infrastructure is not always connected directly to what it might connote as a symbol, an index, or as an embodiment of policy, need, capital and spatial practice. The objective of this new research and scholarship is to bring to light the disjunctions and contradictions in the visual coherence of our urban infrastructure, and to reveal how we …
25.11.2016
We are very excited to announce this years Memefest friendly competition results. As each year Memefest has invited the global community to engage with our special theme- this year it was PLEASURE.
Pleasure is central to our lives and communication/design and art play a major role in our relationship to it. Pleasure is an episodic phenomenon. As we all learn early on it does never really last …
08.11.2016
Tactical cooking with Oliver Vodeb, Manfred Huber & Darren Tofts
“Herodotus, Athanaeus and Plutarch have recorded that in order to stimulate the guests to enjoy earthly pleasures to the full, a coffin was sometimes brought in at the end of the meal with a skeleton in it so that they should appreciate more highly the good things in life.” – Larousse Gastronomique
Curriculum for the excitat…
10.10.2016
We are highly excited to announce that from November 21st to November 28th , Memefest will again hold our international symposium, workshops and interventions, at Swinburne University, Melbourne.
Our aim is to connect students, academics and members of the community with refugee and asylum seeker networks and Aboriginal networks in order to research and create socially transformative public i…
09.10.2016
Memefest has commissioned Melbourne based writer extraordinaire Darren Tofts to share his
A personal history & an invitation
Pleasure is a coveted, quintessentially human emotion. More than simple enjoyment, it is a rhythm of feeling, thought and living. I mean, isn’t that why we are all here? Isn’t it why our atoms have come together from elsewhere, colliding at the speed of light, dyn…