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13.04.2011

Vote GDP

OK, I was against this idea.
- What idea?
- The idea to post a self-promotional text on Memefest
But my dear friend Oliver Vodeb says:
- The work is really great, important and has radical effects. The project is 100% in line with memefest...
-100%? OK, let's try... and we'll see

People, people, I have worked on a webdocumentary project in 2010 called the GDP project. 'Cause you see, tha…

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12.04.2011

The Future Seminar

Today was the Brown Bag Speaker Series topic The Future of the Internet: Concepts.

Multimedia slides only:
http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/slides.html

Recorded Presentation:
http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/

Let me know if you have questions.

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07.04.2011

Cárcel para castigar la piratería en Colombia

Se acaba de abrir el debate en Colombia, acerca de la piratería, los derechos de autor y la forma de compartir contenidos en internet. Estamos ante una ley que puede llevar a la cárcel a quien viole y comparta información que esté protegida. La discusión apenas comenzó y ya tiene divido al país entorno al tema de la libertad de expresión y el libre intercambio de información y contenidos.

El …

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05.04.2011

The Occupation Cookbook

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…

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30.03.2011

Demonstrating Relevance: Response- Ability. Memefest exhibition in Ljubljana

Monday evening we opened first exhibition in a series of four. The exhibition will travel to Koper, Berlin and to this years final event held at Oddstream festival in Nijmegen in June. Exhibited are selected works from this years Friendly competition and past festivals. Works are presented in all different media, for you to see, read, listen, play with and reflect.

The event was very pleasant…

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25.03.2011

Trueque Digital Vol 2

La gran fiesta del intercambio digital se acerca y ya todo el mundo esta preparando sus CDs DVDs y USBs para cc-ompartir información. El trueque digital es una gran iniciativa de varias organizaciones, que promueven la libre cultura en Bogotá, y su idea es generar un espacio que permita el intercambio de conocimiento digital de manera legal.

http://www.truequedigital.phunik.com/

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25.03.2011

WHAT U WANT FOR ME TO BE

LOVE UNTIL WE BLEED.
IT IS PAIN/FUL, IT IS ALSO PAINT.

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24.03.2011

what about now?

Should we be asking ourselves if the natural and political events have a certain pattern? I think not.
There is no way, nature and politics work as a team - no way! But we could exclude the team work and talk about individual projects, one natural and other political.
The problem with the natural project is that we have no word or way to influence it. It is already planned in advance due to s…

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19.03.2011

REFF AR Youth Program

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…

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19.03.2011

An Augmented Reality drug distributed in London

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 …