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02.12.2015
The right wind arise in Latinoamerica. After more than 10 years of leftist governments --the same governments who nationalised the airway enterprises, the retirement founds, oil industries, confronting the big international economics powers and reducing unemployment and iliteracy-- Argentina has go back to the liberalism. The people has elected, for less than 2% of difference, this dark way aga…
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…
11.07.2015
29.06.2015
The Kingbar -bar and restaurant- located in the city of Havana has a discriminatory admission police based on sexual orientation and race. While in Havana please avoid this place, they say they are gay friendly, and the place is run by a gay couple, but do not let them fool you, they can still discriminate.
11.06.2015
Memefest Workshop: Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Instituto Superior de Disegno, Havana, June 19-25.
Mentors:
Dr George Petelin (Griffith University, Queensland College of Art & Memefest)
Dr Oliver Vodeb (Swinburne University of Technology & Memefest)
Participants: Approx. 20
The five day workshop is aimed at students, academics and profe…
02.06.2015
London College of Communication
Wed 10th June
– 16.00 in room D209
Lecture by Oliver Vodeb: Workshops as a Design research method and intervention
Thu 11th & Fri 12th June
– 10.30-16.30 in room D209
Workshop
This praxis based two-day design workshop will be investigating the medium of posters as a critical mapping tool.
The workshop will focus on design as a process a…
27.03.2015
In 2012 Memefest Awarded Czech artist Vladimir Turner the special award for Imaginative Critical Intervention and invited him to our in residence program which was held in subtropical Brisbane. As participant in our extradisciplinary symposium and workshop at the Queensland College of Art on the theme Debt in Brisbane, Vlad produced fantastic work and inspired and moved us all with his crazy inte…
28.01.2015
As many of you know, Memefest has been working with Aboriginal activists in Australia for a couple of years now. As part of last year's symposium and workshop we made contact with many new friends in Melbourne who are working towards genuine recognition of the sovereignty that was never ceded to the colonial invaders 277 years ago in this country. Australia is the only Commonwealth country that h…
25.01.2015
a still from the long awaited project from Valerio Evangelisti, the most acclaimed Italian Sci Fi writer.
The movie depicts the end of Europe and the rise of an organization born from the ashes of nazism.
