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25.11.2011
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…
25.11.2011
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…
23.11.2011
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-killing-of-dogs-and-cats-for-the-european-football-championship#
"Why This Is Important
Dear President Viktor Yanukovych, dear Uefa President Michel Platini, dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
with deep sadness and horror I read about the planned and already started killing of dogs and cats in preparation for the UEFA European Football Championship 2012…
19.11.2011
Here is the next video from this short curated blogging TV from MemeTV series.
It was produced by students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, as part of a nation wide campaign we did at Poper studio. http://poper.si/pozivlja/
The campaign was critiquing the Slovene involvement in the war in Afganistan..
You will see four figures, "Kurents" in the video. More about them …
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 …
24.10.2011
I have been pointed to Chris Hedges through Brian Holmes, who writes on his blog:
"Chris Hedges, the former NY Times war correspondent who took a stand against the war in Iraq, knows more about what’s wrong with this country and is more articulate about it than any other person alive. "
When speaking about "this country" Holmes means America and is referring to the Occupy Wall street protes…
04.10.2011
Check out this new web page and app that seems to serve as an awareness raising tool about slavery by indexing your 'slavery footprint'.
http://slaveryfootprint.org/
I'm happy to see that it manages to break out of the usual visual language of slavery campaigns featuring guilt inducing images of downtrodden people and distressed fonts with excessive use of black, red, and orange.
Instea…
03.10.2011
It has been observed for some years, the emergence of an increasing number of NGOs that receive animals wandering the streets, giving them care and then making them available for adoption. People who create these organizations have a good heart, an ethical stance to worry about helpless, hostages and objectification of indifference provided by humans. But just as these NGOs proliferate, so does t…
02.10.2011
It is true that compared to the automotive market (as well as their needs and political games involved about these needs, such as paved roads, both for movement within a city and also for movement between cities and states), the cycling market, of bicycles, is much less profitable. There are no "sheikhs" of bikes in the international market. When I refer to "sheiks," I mean people with enormous p…
30.09.2011
Dear Memefest comrades,
We're going to have a Digital Culture festival here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December. And we applied for the open call for projects. We want to heat up the discussion towards socially responsive communication in a local sphere, in contact with people from all over the world, and the sky is the limit...
So, today is the last day of the voting process (that's no…
