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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 …
15.12.2010
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…
09.12.2010
I found this article http://mediaecologiesresonate.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/biopower-and-marketing/#respond very interesting. Its opening new perspective - biopolitical focus: govermen-tability, biopower, potentiality, population .. - to start thinking about media/marketing approaches.
08.12.2010
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…
26.11.2010
All of you use it. Some people misuse it. I'm talking about technology. Communication technology like cellphones or internet access points are particularly appreciated by those who use technology to get under your skin. They track you, observe you, CCTV you, have sex with you... in their dreams! The misuse of technology has been growing with the increased use of video games, internet porn portals…
19.11.2010
"First Person Digital is coming up real fast," said Reisa Levine when I met her over coffee last week. The web project manager from Montreal was putting the final touches on the organizing of FPD, a collab between Studio XX - a Montreal feminist digital art centre - and the NFB - Canada's public film producer.
One week later, First Person Digital is launched with a fresh blend of artists on t…
30.10.2010
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…
25.10.2010
25.10.2010
I just came from Istanbul where we put up an exhibition of the project of the studio I am working in - Studio Poper.
I wanted to share a photo which somehow describe the chaotic nature of this megalopolis.
Trafic trafic trafic...
