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30.05.2021
Memefest has been commissioned to design the official poster for Festival de la Imagen in Manizales Colombia. It is the 20th anniversary of the festival with which Memefest has a long standing and close relation. The topic of the festival is Inter/Species and the poster depicts managerial, bureaucratic, rationalist design language as manifested in everyday forms (charts, Xls sheets etc). This lan…
27.12.2018
A project aiming to establish a heightened sense of connectivity between the chef, the kitchen and the community
We are students that have spent three weeks in Patan, Nepal developing a body of work surrounding the concepts of unlearning photography and pleasure media through the lens of food
To see more find us on instagram @cookupdialogue
19.01.2018
Food/Media/Crisis:
Memefest Los Angeles sessions
Feb 9-10, 2018
Pomona College LA
A special two-day workshop / critical discussion facilitated by Memefest on the intersections of Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics.
This workshop will examine the corporate takeover of our food by connecting Media Theory, Tactical Communication, Design and Food Politics. Food/…
25.02.2017
What we see as the outward visual denotation of urban infrastructure is not always connected directly to what it might connote as a symbol, an index, or as an embodiment of policy, need, capital and spatial practice. The objective of this new research and scholarship is to bring to light the disjunctions and contradictions in the visual coherence of our urban infrastructure, and to reveal how we …
02.06.2016
El placer de ver la colaboración en el control de poblaciones de caninos sin hogar, donde también se ve beneficiada la población desde el punto de vista de la sanidad y la seguridad.
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.
17.09.2014
Recently I started to think laser photography, it's a dangerous way to envision "new" image sadly the sensors of modern cameras are very sensitive to laser ray...they can be burned...so the only we to play with liquid sky is not to film the source but only the reflection.
30.07.2012
(sorry, I don't know the original source; anyway i think this is an interesting image of an action that is "debt" related...)
via: https://diasp.org/posts/1265826
#protest #art #dollar #finance #money #politics #banksters #fail
30.04.2012
It's a good time to be in Montreal. It's spring time to be precise. Montreal is experiencing a huge upsurge in social activism for the last three months. The biggest student strike ever, has been lasting for eleven weeks now, and nothing seems to be stopping it. Montreal's got revolutionary momentum and as we know from the history of the sole French-speaking society in North-America, this can mea…
30.04.2012
Created in collaboration with Montreal based designer and Memefest curatorial bord member Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, who visually beautifully designed Debt's dark world, here is this years Memefest poster.
We have been discussing a lot and in the end liked the concept of the dark urban space, with references to power- both on the side of banks and network/ bottom up organisations. We tried to balance …
