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18.02.2012
This is pretty fantastic. A game show spectacle uses Guy Debord as content.
I would be interested to see how would Debord comment on this.
Just a little reminder: "The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images." Society of Spectacle: Guy Debord. What kind of social relations are becoming visible through this image…
30.12.2011
24.12.2011
Credited to Paul Shoebridge, Michael Simons and the National Film Board of Canada this is one of the most beautiful and strong pieces of interactive story telling I have seen and one of my favourite works submitted to Memefest.
In the authors words: "Imagine your hometown never changed. That no one ever grew old or moved on. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point…
13.11.2011
In this short curated series that i'll call Blogging TV, we will have a look at some of the previous moving images Memefest submissions now all published at MEMETV. Here is the first one:
Empire is a 1 minute long video sequence of still webcam images of the \"Europa Center\" - Berlin - downloaded from the web and re-processed in Italy. Audio track is a sonic montage of fields recordings from …
17.01.2011
10.01.2011
En mars 2010, l'expert français en audiovisuel Web & TV, Olivier Crou (ourc sur Twitter), a contribué un billet puissant au sujet du webdocumentaire. Il y explique avec moultes détails et exemples en quoi ce "nouveau" genre de documentaire permet à la fois une lecture délinéarisée et participative.
Il soutient notamment que le webdocumentaire offre une nouvelle grammaire, une nouvelle façon de…
17.12.2010
Interview with Anthropographia founder and manager Matthieu Rytz.
FD: Anthropographia -- http://www.anthropographia.org/ -- is an international photo competition. What makes this one unique?
MR: Anthropographia is a non-profit organization that aims to promote human rights using photography as a medium.
We're supporting photo essays that have been produced on a long term basis. We value …
06.11.2010
Jason and i are working on posters for this year LOVE:CONFLICT:IMAGINATION Memefest theme. Posters are conceptualized around the relation between the three words. We will try to create a open narration, that can be interpreted and reinterpreted by the viewer. Still we are providing a framework of reference to this years festival guidelines. We are experimenting with photography this time.
Here…