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07.10.2016
We are very excited to have received inspiring works from around the world to this years Friendly competition!
The theme PLEASURE has triggered a lot of creative energy and work. It was and is a highly interesting journey for us too.
Pleasure is at the very core of socially responsive communication, design and art. But how does pleasure manifest today, what is its place in design, media, ar…
21.09.2016
Well, well... how great to see inspiring works from around the globe being submitted to this years Memefest Friendly Competition!
Many of you have asked for a bit more time- and we are listening. We want everyone to have a chance to participate in our global dialogue on PLEASURE, therefore we extend the deadline for TEN more days. The last deadline is Thursday 30th of September 2016.
AWARDS…
05.09.2016
The one and only Memefest international festival of Socially Responsive Communication, Design and Art invites you to submit your critical interventions on the theme: PLEASURE
Pleasure. An activity as well as an experience that is given and taken. Pleasure is that which is agreeable and satisfying to the senses and the mind. A sensation of the body as well as the body politic, pleasure is …
24.06.2016
Hello comrades, friends,
Great news for all of you who missed the deadline for submission of your works!
We received strong works from four continents but have received a lot of requests to extend the deadline. We want to listen to our community and have decided to give you some more time and because of the summer / winter holidays we extended the deadline to September 20 2016! So, enough t…
30.05.2016
Dear Friends and Comrades, use this link to submit your work to the Festival's Friendly Competition:
http://memefest.org/en/competition/application_form/
PLEASURE is the theme of this year’s Memefest. We are interested in processes where pleasure meets with conflict and especially in ways we can experience pleasure in our everyday life, which can contribute to its radical transformation t…
12.03.2016
Pleasure is central to our lives and communication/design and art play a major role in our relationship to it.
While pleasure can be used to live life fully, as well as to render people into tools it seems we rarely think of it outside its immediate effects and certainly we think even less of pleasure as social practice and something we could relate to the world in transformative ways that ch…
23.08.2015
The inaugural international Memefest/Swinburne Extradisciplinary Symposium / Workshop / Intervention was held from November 18-25th and focused on Memefest's 2014 theme - Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in our Times, curated by Dr Oliver Vodeb and Alana Hunt. It was a continuation of the global Memefest festival Friendly competition on the same theme and was connected to the Memefest/Swinburne Award…
09.01.2015
We are very excited to announce the new partnership between Memefest and Intellect Books UK, Publishers of Original Thinking! http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/
The new book series titled "Socially Responsive Communication/Design and Art: Memefest Interventions" will be focusing on further exploring critical and urgent contemporary themes addressed by Memefest through its unique extradisciplinar…
23.12.2014
Whatever you might be celebrating in the next days- have a nice time with your loved ones. Warmly from Memefest Kolektiv.
12.11.2014
We are very excited to announce this years special Memefest/ Swinburne University Award for Imaginative Critical Intervention and the first Memefest/Swinburne extradisciplinary symposium/workshop/direct action upcoming event.
The award for Imaginative Critical Intervention is given to support critical thinking, as the ability to see situations as they are and imagine them differently in a way …