3 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
3 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
3 years, 3 months ago
Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
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3 years, 3 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

3 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/
3 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...

3 years, 3 months ago
"I most certainly have some strong feelings......"
3 years, 3 months ago
Thieves in Our Home World Premiere at Capitol Theatre in Melbourne!
With strong feelings we are announcing the world premiere of Thieves in Our Home!
Thieves in Our ...

3 years, 4 months ago
Blueprints for Change Manual
We're launching the first edition of the Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaignin...
3 years, 5 months ago
Merry Christmas everyone! As the holidays center so much around food, family and community we'd like to give you a little gift.
Produced by Goucher student Kylie Miller, hosted by Kylie Miller and Tashi McQueen, Featuring Eric Jackson and Floyd Godsey this podcast presents the amazing and inspiring work on Food Apartheid our brothers and sisters at the Black Yield Institute in Baltimore are doing.
The podcast is one of the many outcomes of Baltimore's Food Apartheid, a collaboration between Goucher College, Black Yield Institute and Memefest, which happened in November in Baltimore.
https://goucherstudentradio.com/2019/12/03/baltimores-food-apartheid-a-podcast-about-black-yield-institute/

3 years, 6 months ago
Montreal friends, come and join us this coming Wednesday:
Members of the Memefest Network were recently in Baltimore, USA working with the Black Yield Institute and students at Goucher College tackling the subject of Baltimore's Food Apartheid. Food Democracy/Food Sovereignty has been a focus of Memefest's work over the last few years and it was a special opportunity for us to work with Black Yield, an amazing community organisation based out of Cherry Hill who seek to "Cultivate Self-Determination Through Black Land & Food Sovereignty".
Memefest's Oliver Vodeb and Vida Voncina, who will be visiting Montreal, alongside Kevin Lo (LOKI/Memefest) are interested in presenting a public debrief and discussion on the work done with BYI and Goucher, as well as the Memefest Network and project more broadly. We invite those interested in design and media activism, radical pedagogy, food justice (and more!) to join us for a casual "salon" at LOKI's studio.
See more details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/571852240242300/

--Daniel
3 years, 6 months ago
The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.
Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:
https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html

3 years, 6 months ago
The Hong Kong protests are incredibly significant for many reasons. Not only are they exceptional as people are protesting more than six months, it is also the tactics that the protesters use that are highly sophisticated.
Here is a good article about the many subversive cultures emerging from the HK uprisings:
https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITIONS-TACTICS/0100B0790FL/index.html


3 years, 6 months ago
"Very excited to meet you all very soon. Last weekend I participated in an event with the East Bay Pe..."

3 years, 6 months ago
"Hi Tashi, I arrived this week to work with Memefest and shared some of your concerns around represen..."

3 years, 6 months ago
"As we are working a lot with photographers here is an article on Afrapix, a radical photo collective..."

3 years, 6 months ago
"Here are some great links sent to me by Pamela from Goucher, they are very useful resources, so I am..."


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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

3 years, 5 months ago