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Memefest with Occupy Brisbane: Socially responsive communication Workshop

oliver
11 years, 2 months ago

CATEGORIES:
communication, activism, education

MEMEFEST, in conjunction with OCCUPY BRISBANE and The Free University of (Occupied) Brisbane Presents:

OCCUPY COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPACE:
Response-Ability, Socially Responsive Media and Communication Workshop

Participants will include members of the Brisbane Memefest Collective, members of Occupy Brisbane Media Working Group and other participants or supporters of Occupy Brisbane.

Place and time:

Brisbane City Council Library Community Meeting Room
9am-5pm on January 11.

The purpose of this workshop is to collectively analyse the past OB communication approaches and tools and discuss strategies and tactics that might be useful for OB in the future. Concepts, concrete ideas for communication tools should be discussed and worked on as well.

Discussion and creative process should include:

1. Internal communication of OB
How can OB use communication in order to organise and communicate as a group?

2. Media situation in Brisbane.
What are past media appearances and representations of OB in media? What is the image of OB that we would like to see? Discussion about OB public communication goals.

3. Media strategies.
How to approach/ work with media and journalists? What was done in the past, what are the problems and what the opportunities?

4. Public communication/intervention strategies.
Defining concrete goals- what and how to communicate, whom to address, which issues to open?

5. Designing the tools.
Words, Images, Processes, Technologies

ps: all are welcome. If you would like to propose things to this workshop agenda, feel free to do it.

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ABOUT ME

Username

oliver

Name

Oliver Vodeb

Gender

male

Country

Australia

Description

I am a member of Memefest communication/art/theory Kolektiv, and founder, curator and editor of Memefest Festival of Socially Responsive Communication and Art. Iam also facilitator of Memefest online social network.

I am an Academic at RMIT University, Melbourne. I teach and research mostly in the field of communication design. I approach design/communication from a critical inter/ extradisciplinary perspective and I investigate theoretical, strategic, conceptual and "hands on" practice.

I enjoy working in many different media including visual and text.

Books I have published :

http://memefest.org/en/fooddemocracy/

www.memefest.org/en/indebtedtointervene/

www.memefest.org/demonstratingrelevance/en

www.druzbenoodzivnokomuniciranje.si/

This was my studio in Slovenia (2004-2012): www.poper.si

CV (sort of): http://www.memefest.org/en/about/who_we_are_oliver_vodeb/

You can read some of my texts here:
https://rmit.academia.edu/OliverVodeb

I have joined the Memfest community becasue i am interested in

I have been here from the very beginning of Memefest. I am interested in communication/design for social and environmental change.
I name such communication socially responsive communication.

Broadly speaking I am interested in visual communication, photography, sociological aspects of communication, design and media.

Iam interested in institutionalised forms of communication like for example communication done by design/communication studios and advertising agencies as well as non institutionalised forms of communication like tactical media or broader aspects of media activism.

In a slightly more academic language:

I am interested in how critical social theory can illuminate the complex processes of production, distribution and reception of public (visual) communication in order to generate public communication as a responsible social, political, economic and cultural practice.

I am particularly interested in relations between concepts of response-ability and communication effectiveness, and the social construction of design and other forms of pubic communication as profession, practice and praxis within academia, the market environments and non-institutionalised communities.

Faculty

was studiing at Faculty for social sciences University of Ljubljana

Education

PhD in sociology of communication and design

Working place

RMIT University, School of Design, Master of Communication Design

Music I like

Flamming Lips, Pixies, The Black Crowes, Demeter, Porno for Pyros, Ry Cooder, Junior Kimbrough, Townes van Zandt, T-model Ford, The Dirty Three, Bonnie Prince Billy, Primus, Faith no More, Bob Dylan, RHCP, Alice Donut, Faith no more, Mark Lanegan, Reigning Sound, Total Control;

Books I like

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Confederacy of Dunces, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, PanikHerz...;

Films I like

The man who wasn't there, No country for old man, Genova, Zidane a 21st century portrait, There will be blood, Il Postino, Festen, Straight Story, Wild at heart, White Ribbon, Dog tooth;

Communication projects I like

I like stuff we did at Poper studio. I like posters from Inkahoots. I like the zine project 23/56 from Kevin. I like many things that were submitted to Memefest, I like stuff from Cactusnetwork, I like the work of Image-shift.

Websites I like

poper.si, memefest.org, magnumphotos.com, mubi.com, ubu.com, http://twotheories.blogspot.com, brianholmes.wordpress.com, www.lensculture.com, www.burnmagazine.org, www.bagnewsnotes.com, www.cactusnetwork.org.uk, http://www.image-shift.net, www.inkahoots.com.au/
www.lokidesign.net