2 months ago
We are sad that Felix Beltran is not with us anymore. We met Felix in Havana in 2016 when we did Memefest there. He was one of the most important Latino American designers and the key designer in the Cuban revolution as well as the communist party in the Castro regime. The design tradition he was co developing is close to our hearts, infused by critical theory and daring visual language, his aim was to steer the viewer away from beeing a consumer of images. We also think he did really beautiful work. I also have one of his original prints, this op art poster from 1969 I got in Havana in a dusty book store. Here is a little piece about Felix and his work: https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-felix-beltran-art-director/

3 months ago
Hello comrades,
Memefest never had an Instagram account but as we recently were in Saigon, our students insisted and created one. It will be updated, please follow if you like: https://www.instagram.com/memefest_network/
1 year, 6 months ago
Hello Comrades,
here is a little gift for you.
Culture Jamming Australia! Part political satire, part eco-horror, part road movie, TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable constructed entirely from samples pirated from the Australian cinema cannon. I could not recommend it more!
Read full description and watch it via the link bellow- online only till September 20th.
https://www.e-flux.com/video/416793/terror-nullius/
2 years, 5 months ago
This is super: between 1st- 31st October 2020 anyone can get 30% off the Food Democracy book online using the code FAN30 at the checkout!!
https://intellectbooks.com/food-democracy

2 years, 5 months ago
David Graeber was connected to Memefest mostly via his incredible work on Debt.
This is an invitation to come together across the world for a memorial carnival in the spirit of the one and only, David Graeber, who just left us so suddenly and unexpectedly. The invitation emerges from his wife Nika and a handful of his friends.
https://davidgraeber.industries/memorial-carnival-eng
2 years, 8 months ago
Here is the sound file of the dialogue between Arturo Escobar and I at the recent Participatory design conference at the Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, Colombia. It was such a pleasure and honor to talk to Arturo but also pure joy to be connected again with Colombia again and in especially in this a way!!
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The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design: A Dialogue Between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar have in this special dialogue, Participatory Design Conference at the 2020 Festival de la Imagen in Manizales, looked into the radical potential of participation and design, especially in relation to knowledge. Taking a close look at the relations between the academy, practitioners and social movements, the dialogue focused on the politics of the possible, namely, a reality open for cohabitation of different worlds by design.
The conversation examined the potential for epistemic pluralism and participatory epistemologies to foster radical intimacy with each other and the earth. Looking at the growing field of critical design, Vodeb and Escobar discussed capitalism’s predatory strategies and design's role in it, while suggesting that another design, and another possible, are possible.
More on Arturo Escobar here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Esco…_(anthropologist)
More on Oliver Vodeb here: memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/
2 years, 10 months ago
You can join now our Memefest channel via the Telegram app:
https://t.me/memefestnetwork

2 years, 10 months ago
"What kind of problem succumbs to domination and control? The kind caused by something from the outsi..."
2 years, 11 months ago
I will be posting three lectures on comradeship by Jodi Dean in the coming weeks. Here is the first one:
Learning about comradeship with Jodi Dean: Class 1

2 years, 11 months ago
"Hi Thomas, really nice to hear from you!
I know what you mean. We left the post online for a day an..."

2 years, 11 months ago
"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."

2 years, 11 months ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?


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giartek
Name
giada totaro
Birth year
15051982
Website
http://it.linkedin.com/pub/giada-totaro/24/130/66a
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Radical communication
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D.A.M.S., NABA, BRERA (Italy)
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social and intermedia artist

2 years, 8 months ago
More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)