Janneke

" the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us"
A haunting piece that articulates the thematic concerns of Memefest 2014, as the author concludes - ...

homophobic bar in Havana

"U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies

http://www.reuters.com/ar..."

Memefest Cuba! Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times
Memefest Workshop: Change in Everyday Life: Dialogue and Critique through Design in our Times

Ins...

Imaginary POSTERS : MAPPING Workshops
London College of Communication

Wed 10th June

– 16.00 in room D209

Lecture by Oliver Vodeb:...

A reminder that your Instagram photos aren’t really yours: Someone else can sell them for $90,000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/?utm_content=buffer50ab4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

If the form-filling that plagues academia is pointless, why do academics comply with it?

"Yet it does not account for the moralising and punitive manner in which bureaucratic demands are formulated. They are derived from private sector managerialism, yet while they have been largely flushed out of business itself, they are applied to academia in a correctional spirit, as if it is not behaving in a sufficiently businesslike manner."

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/bureaucracy-why-wont-scholars-break-their-paper-chains/2020256.fullarticle#.VV7akHDzqcU.facebook

The mapping of power structures masters Bureau d'Etudes have published a book with a large selection of their maps and reflections on them. Atlas of Agendas, looking very good:

http://bureaudetudes.org/2015/04/23/atlas-of-agendas-mapping-the-power-mapping-the-commons-2015/

Tehran Becomes Giant Open-Air Art Gallery

The city's mayor had 1,500 billboards, which were once covered with advertisements, replaced with reproductions of works of art from some Western and Iranian artists...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/07/tehran-art-gallery_n_7233522.html

Dejch
8 years ago

Great!

Techniques of the Observer.

LAURA POITRAS and HITO STEYERL in Conversation about filmmaking, perception, disclosure, encryption, and the promise and peril of the image.

oliver
8 years, 1 month ago

Here the link to the full text : https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201505&id=51563

Here is an WIRED article titled:"The Age of Drone Vandalism Begins With an Epic NYC Tag"

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/age-drone-vandalism-begins-epic-nyc-tag/

Is there a future for Drones as Culture Jamming/disruption technology? Seems so.

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html?WT.mc_id=2015-APRIL-FACEBOOK-PROPENSITY_OPINION-AUD_DEV-0401-0430&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVAPRIL&_r=0

In the lonely Cockpit of our Lives- Franco Bifo Berardi on the Germanwings Tragedy, which is believed to have been intentionally crashed by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz

http://versobooks.tumblr.com/post/115308993283/in-the-lonely-cockpit-of-our-lives-franco-bifo

ISIS to Exhibit Floating Pavilion of Art Destruction at Venice Biennale?

http://hyperallergic.com/195279/isis-to-exhibit-floating-pavilion-of-art-destruction-at-venice-biennale/

Facebook tracks the web browsing of everyone who visits a page on its site even if the user does not have an account or has explicitly opted out of tracking.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-tracks-all-visitors-breaching-eu-law-report

WHITE & BLACK FILM / Vladimír Turner

WHITE & BLACK FILM / Vladimír Turner
In 2012 Memefest Awarded Czech artist Vladimir Turner the special award for Imaginative Critical Int...

I have watched Citizenfour http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4044364/
Few days ago. Its brilliant. I made me also install encription software to my phone. Can everyone please install "Signal" on their IPhones and "Textsecure" on your Android? It's free... https://whispersystems.org Seriously I am not really keen on getting non encripted sms and I'd prefer to talk via encripted chanells as well. For it to work both parties need to have this installed.

"Thank you Lisa for writing this. It was a great experience and I feel proud of our all work and the ..."

In Your Wildest Schemes
The free market won’t stop climate change, but its failure is inspiring the people who will

https://medium.com/the-nib/in-your-wildest-schemes-the-market-vs-climate-change-1b76763bd3d4