Partners & Supporters
Partners
Besides Memefest's international network we have started also partnerships with great organizations that are also interested in social change and the development of Socially Responsive Communication.
Queensland College of Art/Griffith University
With a broad canvas and a wide lens, the diversity of the Queensland College of Art fosters a colourful, dynamic learning environment, focused on creative, studio-based activity. Established in 1881, the Queensland College of Art is one of Australia’s longest-running art and design colleges.
QCA is currently preparing for the start of the new four year bachelor cutting edge Design Futures degree in 2013, which will open a new chapter in design education focusing on environmental and social responsibility and change.
Mladina Magazine
MLADINA is a weekly magazine for the well-informed reader who values independent thinking. Magazine has a philosophy, vision and style which are different from other publications in Slovenia.
Mladina meets the need of a modern reader for the complementary view of the key social and political events of the past week. It also presents themes of special interests and topics dealing with business, politics, leisure and lifestyle. Readers of Mladina are constantly incited to think with a commentary, a report, news or Diareja Comic Strip.
Two courses are characteristic of Mladina: first is the political-economic one, whereas the second is cultural-artistic one with the emphasis on the life style. Coinciding with this division are different readers` segments with explicit lines as far as their sociodemographic traits are concerned.
Magazine also belongs to the group of prestigious Slovenian brands, it is a »Superbrand«.
CSP - center za socialno psihologijo
Center for Social Psychology at the Faculty for Social sciences, University of Ljubljana is our research partner, hosts the on-line platform on it’s server and has co-published the Demonstrating Relevance: Response-Ability book with Memefest.
Local Slovenian supporters
Supporters
This portal was created with support of European Youth foundation.
Supporters
This portal was created with support of European Youth foundation.
Partners
Besides Memefest's international network we have started also a new partnership with great organizations that are also interested in social change. This year Memefest LOVE:CONFLICT:IMAGINATION is a collaboration between Memefest, http://pina.si/">Pina, http://www.pink-sweater.nl/">Pink Sweater and http://www.loesje.org/">Loesje.
Beyond... category is presented together with the best platform about art and subversion: http://www.rebelart.net">REBEL:ART.
MEMEFEST
Memefest nurtures and rewards theory, practice and research of communication that works towards a more equal society.
Memefest is conceptual and creative framework for the friendly competition and radical communication education dimension of this partnership. Memefest also organizes, coordinates and produces concepts,content communication expertize and tools for things related to the friendly competition, radical communication education and promotion of it. Memefest will also design a international seminar, workshop and exhibition and participate in the design of the program of Oddstream event.
PINA
PINA - ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION is resting on the platform idea of an open society in which Pina is an “open house”, which allows a continuous flow and gathering of people and ideas, and guidance in the implementation of projects based on cultural, artistic, educational, research, computer, communication and information activities.
Pina coordinates administrative and organizational matters within the partnership of Memefest Love:Conflict:Imagination and Oddstream event 2010/2011
Pink Sweater
Pink Sweater is a foundation that focuses on multimedia productions and projects mainly within the cultural and social sector. Pink Sweater works in assignment for museums, art cinemas, governments and NGO's but also develops own independent (international) cultural projects. Regular activities include community-art projects, the creation of video-clips / short-films and giving educational media literary workshops to schools.
Pink Sweater will host the Oddstream media and radical communications event and international training and symposium in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands that will be held between the 1st and 5th of June 2011.
Loesje
Loesje is both a worldwide collective of people who want to make the world a more positive creative place; and a girl from the Netherlands. Local Loesje groups create and spread posters signed by the girl Loesje, whose texts comment on everything taking place within society. Loesje texts are mostly positive and funny, yet at the same time critical, wanting to stimulate the viewers to see things from new perspectives, and take action in their own lives and surroundings – to solve problems and create change.
Loesje posters are created within a group workshop process, representing a central principle of collaboration. This means that all texts are written as a result of stimulation from others, formed as things that Loesje herself would say, and then spread in the streets.
Loesje was founded in 1983 and since 1994 the foundation Loesje International exists to spread her ideas’ across the globe. Loesje’s key values and characteristics are: Solidarity, Anti-authoritarian, Sexually free, Initiative, Decisive, A-religious and Independent.
Loesje will together with a team from 'Masta - magazine for creative acts' conduct an exhibition in Berlin with the selected works from Memefest Love:Conflict:Imagination in April 2011 and
be part of organizing the international training as well as other creative activities at the event in Nijmegen, June 2011.
http://www.rebelart.net">REBEL:ART
rebel:art is an international network for media and culture jammers & adbusters, hacktivist & net activists, street artists & street vandals, post-dadaists & retro neoists.
Mladina Magazine
MLADINA is a weekly magazine for the well-informed reader who values independent thinking. Magazine has a philosophy, vision and style which are different from other publications in Slovenia.
Mladina meets the need of a modern reader for the complementary view of the key social and political events of the past week. It also presents themes of special interests and topics dealing with business, politics, leisure and lifestyle. Readers of Mladina are constantly incited to think with a commentary, a report, news or Diareja Comic Strip.
Two courses are characteristic of Mladina: first is the political-economic one, whereas the second is cultural-artistic one with the emphasis on the life style. Coinciding with this division are different readers` segments with explicit lines as far as their sociodemographic traits are concerned.
Magazine also belongs to the group of prestigious Slovenian brands, it is a »Superbrand«.
CSP - center za socialno psihologijo
Center for Social Psychology at the Faculty for Social sciences, University of Ljubljana is the institutional research home of Memefest. Besides research and academic collaboration the Center also hosts the on-line platform on it’s server.
RTS
RTS is the largest regional television programme in Slovenia with the status of special importance. TV headquarters are in Maribor. Publisher broadcaster of RTS is Tele 59. In quality and extent of the RTS's own production is RTS of one of the leading TV companies in Slovenia and is also a pioneer in the digitalization in our country. Already in 2004 was RTS the first television that had broadcast digital terrestrial signal. In the very center of Maribor was in 2008 created the International Media Center, new home of television RTS. Three modern studios- largest with 500 square meters and 150 seats- are allowing the highest quality production of various projects. The center is equipped with the latest technology which also allows the production and broadcast in high-resolution HDTV format.
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