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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.
18.12.2014
not so far in time we were used to create out of nothing, to create without thinking in terms of stuffs and gizmos but in terms of results and meaning and innovation out of void. Now this approach is in the hands of teachers and workshops maker that have the slog to clean the brain of young artists and to force them to carve the work out of a dirty garage with a 486 and shoestring.
17.12.2014
If worries about our impending social and environmental apocalypse threaten to ruin your holidays, below are some thoughts from my upcoming book that might provide some hope. Season’s Greetings!
Is our planet screwed? Are we going to run our civilization into the ground, as many doomsayers claim?
When you look at the cold figures science provides us, they are certainly terrifying. The combi…
15.11.2014
http://www.paglen.com the NAME OF THE GAME, he is for real the fourth eye of our crumble reality made of tellers and whistleblowers. Machiavelli meets William Burroughs and James Joyce. Trevor Paglen sees beyond the veils.
11.11.2014
Andrew Garton and the Association for Progressive Communications in collaboration with Memefest/Swinburne are launching the latest version of the Global Information Society Watch publication, GISWatch 2014, which reviews the effects of national, global mass surveillance of citizens around the world.
When: 6:00pm, 18 November 2014
Where: Haddons Cafe Bar, Swinburne University, AR Building, 642…
25.09.2014
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05.08.2014
An interesting article on the failure of social media "dialogue".
https://medium.com/i-data/israel-gaza-war-data-a54969aeb23e
27.07.2014
Hi all,
I am beginning the process of encouraging a critical design connective called Imp-act (an Imp being a small and mischievous creature). It is a association of students/practitioners/thinkers etc in the local Brisbane area creating and then building on open-source ideas. Looking for anyone who is interested in helping develop the idea: especially QCA students and ex-students.
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20.02.2014
We are very excited to let you know about our new book. We have been working on it for more than a year and the book is as beautifull and strong in any way as was the adventure in to researching debt and making it.
The book is an investigation in to Debt as the key instrument that defines current social relations- through the lens of communication, design and art. It is both- theory and pract…
11.02.2014
U ediciji Interventions, u izdanju Memefesta i Queensland College of Art - Griffith University, izašla je nova knjiga InDEBTed TO INTERVENE, Critical Lessons in Debt, Communication, Art and Theoretical Practice.
InDEBTed TO INTERVENE, Critical Lessons in Debt, Communication, Art and Theoretical Practice je knjiga koja kroz prizmu kritike, komunikacije, dizajna, umetnosti i teorijske prakse pr…
