7 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
7 months, 1 week 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
10 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/
11 months ago
Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar in Dialogue
We are excited to announce a special dialogue between Oliver Vodeb and Arturo Escobar at the Festiva...
11 months, 2 weeks ago
You can join now our Memefest channel via the Telegram app:
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11 months, 2 weeks ago
"Thank you Antonio!! And so you do too, when ever we have the opportunity to be in touch! ..."
oliver
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11 months, 4 weeks ago
"What kind of problem succumbs to domination and control? The kind caused by something from the outsi..."
Memefest
commented on Memefest's blogpost CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to new Memefest book RADICAL INTIMACIES: Extradisciplinary Investigations in Making Things Public
12 months ago
"Refusing a no touch future:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech..."
1 year ago
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to new Memefest book RADICAL INTIMACIES: Extradisciplinary Investigations in Making Things Public
We are very excited to announce that we are working on our next book in the Memefest "Interventions"...
1 year 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
1 year ago
Kimberley Coronavirus Animation
Watch this beautiful animation raising awareness about the dangers of Coronavirus spreading among t...
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1 year ago
Why Did We Delete the "Coronavirus COVID-19 is an act of war?" Openblog Post?
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1 year ago
"Hi Oliver.
What strange times to be alive hey?!
I've sure we'll see more of these kind of art..."
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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
10 months ago
More on Arturo Escobar here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)