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Poster for Occupy London given away in 1000 copies with issue 2 of the The Occupied Times, the camp Newspaper

Download A3 version here:

http://www.noeldouglas.net/occupyeverywhereA3.pdf

Noel

art communication activism design

This is link to a paper I gave at a conference Design and Social Activism in Barcelona this summer, I thought it would interest people here. It draws on the fantastic theories of communcation that Mikhail Bakhtin and Valentin Volosinov wrote in the 20s in Russia, and looks at how the combination of economic collapse and network technology are feeding a dialogical battle over the meaning of Signs,…

Noel

theory culture activism critique

MEMEFEST, in conjunction with OCCUPY BRISBANE and The Free University of (Occupied) Brisbane Presents:

OCCUPY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPACE:
Response-Ability, Socially Responsive Media and Communication Workshop

Participants will include members of the Brisbane Memefest Collective, members of Occupy Brisbane Media Working Group and other participants or supporters of Occupy Brisbane.

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oliver

communication activism education

Just got an email with this wonderful Snowmen by the fantastic Milan Erič. His humor and playful work always make me happy. In the name of the whole Memefest collective I wish you all the best in the next year. Let's continue the good work.

oliver

art photography community

http://www.thebubbleproject.com/

noemi

art communication activism

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…

oliver

media photography community technology

Next one on our Blogging TV - images from MemeTV -series. This one was submitted to our second festival in year 2003. Really nice. I wonder what the author - Marco Perugini is doing this days.

oliver

video

I have recently been asked by D_magazin, to write a review of the 5th Biannual of visual communication of Slovenia, as student newspaper Tribuna took part in it and has recieved the award for type design, the award for editoral design and the grand award. I have to stress, that my personal reason for participation was one of "infiltration", to see, if my critical stance to such events is justifie…

aljaz

critique

Few days ago, students in solidarity with the worldwide Occupy movement peacefully protested at University California Davis. What happened became news around the world. It showed the nature of a big part of the corporate University systen through the naked violence that was employed that very day on campus. It showed how far a University system can go to preserve it's corporate status quo. It sho…

oliver

art media activism education

The seed of an idea for an interdisciplinary design practice that goes out of its way to recognise and affirm "goodness" in the world while agitating for needed change. It is a model that values diversity of approach and personality, and attempts to avoid the well trodden patterns of "conservative" and "radical" behaviour.

"Sch/ism": A divided design studio

Pleasure/Provocation
Affirmati…

Imp

communication activism design community