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Dear Comrades, dear friends. As our new extensive Memefest book is out, we have received many emails on how to get it. Sure, we would like to bring it as close to our community as possible, but as we will explain we have a dilemma.

As you all know, Memefest supports Wikileaks. One of the very problematic gestures of neoliberal capitalist business was to block Wikileaks' payments they have rece…

oliver

society community

Our beautiful comrade and Memefest team member from Brasil Ines Nin has recently done this presentation at a Petcha Kutcha event. Its really inspirational to see the appreciation of years of work around the world. And the sympathetic presentation is really in the informal vibe we all like so much.

oliver

communication video community

I just received this email. Let's do something!

Dear Sir/Madam,

BOOKS4VIJECNICA is an action project, initiated by Humanity in Action Senior Fellow Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Our initiative is to re-establish the destroyed book collection of Vijecnica, the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina !
During the four-year long siege of Sarajevo, from 1992 till 1995, Vijecnica was…

oliver

society culture education community

For the moment only in Italian http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1941 .
The English version will be out in 2-3 weeks.
Ciao!

bertram

communication community

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'…

oliver

communication design community

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…

oliver

community

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…

oliver

society culture communication community

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…

oliver

culture communication activism community

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…

oliver

activism education design community

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…

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art activism design community