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16.10.2010
Food speaks about culture, ideology, aesthetics, politics and of course power.
Exactly power is the topic this wonderful project deals with. Conflict kitchen from Pittsburgh serves only food from Countries, America is in conflict with. This is a strong message this folks are communicating to their community. The whole process is organized around human experience and contact. People can talk, dis…
09.10.2010
I have been working on this project with my studio for almost a year now. It is a completely new field for me- fashion. But what we are trying to do here is to change the very logic of the fashion business. Open source, participation, community education and peer to peer economic models are probably the main key words. Here is a nice video about the thoughts of our workshop participants, who have…
07.10.2010
Dos mujeres caminan por la calle, es un acción simple y común. Pero que sucede cuándo usan un elemento símbolico tradicional y además estigmatizado?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/8036686/French-women-cause-a-stir-in-niqab-and-hot-pants-in-anti-burka-ban-protest.html
05.10.2010
Once upon a time a girl, an object, an idea and a word, that has different meaning in different languages met. In place, described by Jean Paul as “the part of the world rather than a city” they had a meeting. They all brought along the will to create better opportunities for the individuals in the society, enthusiasm about visual communications as opinion sharing tool and vision that social chan…
02.10.2010
I have started to be interested in mapping projects long ago. The first really inspiring project i saw some 8 years ago was the ongoing "mapping of power structures" project dome by Bureau d' etudes and Memefest collaborator Brian Holmes. Here is one example of this fantastic work: http://bureaudetudes.org/files/2010/01/wordlgov2005.pdf
This was also something, that fascinated me: Skitter grap…
21.09.2010
Desde hoy empieza la tarea de recuperar el camino que en un momento nos llevó a la construcción del Memefest Latinoamérica y espero poder encontrar muchos aliados. Necesitamos volver a la discusión, de nuevo mostrar los trabajos de diseñadores y artistas que mediante una profunda reflexión, convencimiento y creatividad, presentaron en versiones anteriores del festival proyectos importantes que lo…
20.09.2010
Bourriaud defined the approach of relational art or relational aesthetics simply as: "a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space."
There is many interesting points in his book and i recommend it. It's a good and relevant book. However, i am skep…
18.09.2010
The a-synchronicity of electronic mail to a complete stranger strips out all requirement of social obligation and, in turn, relies only on content to motivate the receiver in their response. In other words, when using text based communication -- with a person whom you have never met -- that person is not socially obligated to respond to you: they can easily delete your message, toss your letter i…
14.09.2010
0100101110101101.ORG did this on-line performance titled No Fun, using Chat roulette http://chatroulette.com/.
One of the better projects i have seen in a long time, this is hard core.
Have a look at it and think about the chatters responses to this shocking image that waited for them.