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13.01.2011
En un futuro distópico, gracias a la 210ª, 211ª y 212ª Enmienda de la Constitución y a la incesante vigilancia del Discapacitador General de Estados Unidos, todos son finalmente iguales. Los fuertes llevan pesas, los bellos usan máscaras y los inteligentes usan auriculares que disparan ruidos fuertes para evitar que tomen una ventaja injusta de sus cerebros. Pero entonces algunos deciden que ya e…
14.12.2010
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.
31.08.2010
An exciting animation that makes fun of 'our' corporate world! The animation includes over 2.500 logo's. Here is just the trailer on vimeo you can find the complete animation.
Logorama explores the extent to which logos are embedded in our daily existence. Said members of H5, "Logorama presents us with an over-marketed world built only from logos and real trademarks that are destroyed by a ser…
17.08.2010
Today I visited the World Wide Video Festival, one of the first media-art festivals in the world that started in 1982 and organised their last festival in 2004. Nowadays they are focussing on 360 degrees panorama projections and cooperation with artists around the globe. It was an inspiring meeting and we discussed the possibility to create a 360 degrees projections related to 'love;conflict, con…
16.08.2010
Just got an email from Richard Barbrook- whose fantastic "The High-Tech Gift Economy" text is going to be published in our Memefest reader this November.
He is working on this fantastic project. Here is a description and the first part of the movie:
“In the early-1970s, Debord created his film adaptation of The Society of the Spectacle by splicing together clips taken from other people’s…