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20.11.2010
Traditionally Memefest puts special attention to the poster medium for each festivals promotional campaign. It's probably the love for paper and a visual communication tool which is tightly and historically connected to social movements. But it's also the potential effectiveness of the poster which is important. Every year we choose to work with someone whom we like and whose work we respect. It'…
19.11.2010
"First Person Digital is coming up real fast," said Reisa Levine when I met her over coffee last week. The web project manager from Montreal was putting the final touches on the organizing of FPD, a collab between Studio XX - a Montreal feminist digital art centre - and the NFB - Canada's public film producer.
One week later, First Person Digital is launched with a fresh blend of artists on t…
19.11.2010
14.11.2010
There is a good vibe and exciting time at Memefest right now. After months and months of hard work we are in the finishing phase of Memefest book. We are planing to put it to print next week. It's gonna be a fantastic piece of work, i can promise. Edited and curated content from all past Memefest's as well as new original content will be published in book form for the first time. Cca 500 pages of…
06.11.2010
Jason and i are working on posters for this year LOVE:CONFLICT:IMAGINATION Memefest theme. Posters are conceptualized around the relation between the three words. We will try to create a open narration, that can be interpreted and reinterpreted by the viewer. Still we are providing a framework of reference to this years festival guidelines. We are experimenting with photography this time.
Here…
30.10.2010
Advertising, besides it many problematic dimensions can still be used as a media, a vehicle for communicating beneficial messages. A tricky thing and a slippery terrain, indeed. What i mean with beneficial messages is the concept of embedding a communication surplus, that works beyond the signifying regimes of the brand. For example: a product- that in itself is not harmful can be advertised i…
28.10.2010
Last friday Slovenian main newspaper called Delo (Work) decided to sell the front page to Generali and put a Generali add with a Delo head instead of the normal front page. A critical group of young researchers and teaching assistants from the Faculty of Social Sciences-University of Ljubljana working under the name PI (precarious incubator) an initiative for precarious workers at the University …
25.10.2010
25.10.2010
I just came from Istanbul where we put up an exhibition of the project of the studio I am working in - Studio Poper.
I wanted to share a photo which somehow describe the chaotic nature of this megalopolis.
Trafic trafic trafic...
