2 years, 1 month ago
Kimberley Coronavirus Animation
Watch this beautiful animation raising awareness about the dangers of Coronavirus spreading among t...

2 years, 1 month ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?

2 years, 1 month ago
"Hi Oliver.
What strange times to be alive hey?!
I've sure we'll see more of these kind of art..."

2 years, 1 month 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, 1 month ago
"I remember seeing the post appear, but didn't read it due to the sensationalised title of it. I've s..."

2 years, 1 month ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?

2 years, 1 month ago
"I like this initiative a lot Stephen. Somehow I just got the opportunity to look into it now. Same q..."

2 years, 1 month ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?
Few days ago a member of our Memefest social network has on our web site published an Openblog post ...

2 years, 1 month ago
Goodnight and Good Luck: a Letter to My Colleagues.
* a random selection of some Australian university advertisements
We are publishing this letter...
2 years, 2 months ago
Creative activism and Corona Virus. Ways to do activism in times of social distancing. Check it out bellow:
https://c4aa.org/2020/03/dont-cancel-creative-activism-and-coronavirus?mc_cid=14c0623d33&mc_eid=0284349c62
2 years, 2 months ago
Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
Naomi Klein explains how governments and the global elite will exploit a pandemic.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmqyk/naomi-klein-interview-on-coronavirus-and-disaster-capitalism-shock-doctrine?utm_campaign=sharebutton
2 years, 2 months ago
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
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2 years, 2 months ago
The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting
Edited by: Alex Wardrop and Deborah Withers
2014
There is a name for those under-and precariously employed, but actively working, academics in today’s society: the para-academic.
Para-academics mimic academic practices so they are liberated from the confines of the university. Our work, and our lives, reflect how the idea of a university as a place for knowledge production, discussion and learning, has become distorted by neo-liberal market forces.
We create alternative, genuinely open access, learning-thinking-making-acting spaces on the internet, in publications, in exhibitions, discussion groups or other mediums that seem appropriate to the situation. We don’t sit back and worry about our career developments paths. We write for the love of it, we think because we have to, we do it because we care.
http://hammeronpress.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PHA_Final.pdf

2 years, 3 months ago
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
2 years, 3 months ago
Your 20 Sources and 20 People for this Year 2020
This OPENBLOG 2020 theme is for all MEMEFEST MEMBERS to freely participate in.
The idea is to he...

2 years, 3 months ago
"I most certainly have some strong feelings......"


Username
rok
Name
Rok Klemencic
Gender
male
Country
Slovenia
Description
I am a graphic designer from the coast of Slovenia, hungry to amplify MEMES with strong/ethical content.
Right now I am doing a master in Visual communication studies in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana researching the theme of Ecology in Graphic Design. Otherwise I work as a graphic designer for Studio Poper, a communication studio with strong social engagement, based in Ljubljana.
Some of my design work here:
http://be.net/r0k0
I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in
When I realized, as a young visual communicator, that we live in a neoliberal absurdness surrounded by ethical crisis, I wanted to involve all my creative energies to projects connected with deep ethical connotation.
In 2003 or 2004 I found out the project called Memefest, which was kind of revelation for me. The content on the website impressed me so much, because there I found a quite big international community of people thinking and creating in the way I wanted to do it.
After all Memefest project was developed in Slovenia, I really loved the concept and I said to myself that it was insane not to try to get involved. At that point I realized that I need to get in contact with the organization. I really wanted to know the team and I was open for absorbing new knowledge.
At the time my anger on visual pollution that commercial visual communication was producing was enormous, and I thought that collaboration with people involved in Memefest community can just help me to make my point of view clearer.
That feeling of anger, now mixed with other feelings, is still here, that`s why I am still a part of Memefest.
Faculty
Academy of Visual arts and Design / Ljubljana
Education
visual art pedagogy, visual communication
Working place
Renderspace
