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29.04.2011

Le OFFTA, 18 degrés au soleil

Le OFFTA, vous connaissez? Ça sonne comme une boulette de viande marocaine (kefta) et il est vrai que ça roule! Mais le OFFTA ça ne fait pas que rouler, ça tourne aussi.

Une équipe de tournage sera au Parc LaFontaine (Montréal) dès 13h ce dimanche 1er mai pour capter un avant-goût de cette boulette de danse et théâtre. En effet, les artistes de l'édition alternative et "underground" du Festiva…

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28.04.2011

Call Center Experience!

Hi all. I'd like to share with you a brand-new-project we've been working on for last mounths. Its name is Call Center Experience! and is about discovering the persons behind call center agents.
This video is part of a website which will be online for public use next days. I hope you enjoy it!

http://www.vimeo.com/22373885?ab

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28.04.2011

Demonstrating Relevance: Memefest Exhibition in Berlin

We present in cooperatin with Loesje, Masta and Kulturlabor Trial&Error:

The Memefest exhibition: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Response-Ability” with selected visual communication works and critical content from all over the world.
An event for interactive participation to emancipate, reinterpret and act!

>>> and in German <<<

Die Memefest Ausstellung: “DEMONSTRATING Relevance: Respon…

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24.04.2011

Workshop: comunicação socialmente sensível

Não foi uma decisão fácil. Muitos participantes enviaram bons trabalhos para o festival desse ano. Dentre esses, os mentores do workshop - Oliver Vodeb, Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber e Jason Grant - tiveram a difícil tarefa de escolher quais seriam convidados para Nijmegen, Holanda, em junho desse ano. Os critérios para participação no workshop de comunicação socialme…

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19.04.2011

Hopenhagen: Design Activism as an Oxymoron

Abstract for the Design History Society conference Design Activism and Social Change. See blog for more pictures and links: http://ecolabs.posterous.com/

Hopenhagen was an initiative by the International Advertising Association in support of the United Nations at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen December 2009. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon UN asked for help from t…

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19.04.2011

Based in or near London? Come to Visual Camp! Far away? Vote on best Project!

Create visuals that communicate policy issues/scenarios in really compelling ways.

10th May between 5-9pm, London.

Visual Camp - vote on projects: http://bit.ly/e6MEV4

Visual Camp- register to come: http://visualcamp.eventbrite.com/

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18.04.2011

Se publicaron los resultados del Festival. BUEN TRABAJO!


Guau, que fantástica respuesta! Comunicadores visuales, escritores críticos, artistas, educadores, activistas, investigadores de todo el mundo, respondieron a la propuesta y enviaron sus reflecciones en varios formatos. Nuestros curadores y editores trabajaron durante tres semanas, revisaron los trabajos recibidos y cada uno seleccionó un máximo de 7 trabajos. Como parte del Premio Memefest, ca…

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15.04.2011

See you at the Workshop!

It was not a easy decision to make. To many participants submitted good work to this year’s festival, too many of you we would like to work with in our workshop. However, we had to make a decision. Workshop mentors: Tony Credland, Sandy Kaltenborn, Shoaib Nabi, Alain Bieber, Jason Grant and myself were first discussing criteria than we selected separate lists and in the end one list of twenty p…

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13.04.2011

Vote GDP

OK, I was against this idea.
- What idea?
- The idea to post a self-promotional text on Memefest
But my dear friend Oliver Vodeb says:
- The work is really great, important and has radical effects. The project is 100% in line with memefest...
-100%? OK, let's try... and we'll see

People, people, I have worked on a webdocumentary project in 2010 called the GDP project. 'Cause you see, tha…

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12.04.2011

The Future Seminar

Today was the Brown Bag Speaker Series topic The Future of the Internet: Concepts.

Multimedia slides only:
http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/slides.html

Recorded Presentation:
http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/

Let me know if you have questions.