MEMEFEST 2008- ENTERING THE SECOND HALF OF A DECADE OF CREATION,
SUBVERSION, AND RESISTANCE!
www.memefest.org
Memefest, the International Festival of Radical Communication "born
in Slovenia and rapidly reaching a critical mass worldwide" is proud
to announce its seventh annual competition. Once again, Memefest is
encouraging students, writers, artists, designers, thinkers,
philosophers, and counter-culturalists to submit their work to our
panel of renowned judges.
This year, jury members will among others include:
Geert Lovink http://www.networkcultures.org/ a new media theorist,
activist and founder and director of the Institute of Network
Cultures in Amsterdam,
Dori Tunstall a leader in field of Design Anthropology and Associate
Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Director of the City
Design Center at University of Illinois at Chicago,
P.K. Langshaw, the Chair of and Associate Professor in the Department
of the Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in
Montreal, Quebec,
Jason Grant, Director of inkahoots http://www.inkahoots.com.au the
adventurous graphic design studio in Brisbane, Australia,
Gon Zifroni from the excellent and innovative design research
collective based in Amsterdam and Brussels, Metahaven
www.metahaven.net
and
Jernej Lorenci, theatre director virtuoso from Ljubljana.
This years festival theme is RADICAL BEATY. Participants will respond
to an excerpt taken from the movie Rize and comment on it with their
works. To see the festival outline movie Rize, visit
www.memefest.org
Here is how we defined radical beauty: Beauty is a cultural creation
that expresses dominant values. In the 21st century beauty is often
extremely commercialized. Radical beauty is a cultural creation that
expresses the desire of a change in society. Radical beauty is about
changing dominant values through action and creation. Grassroots
projects are often the vectors of these changings. They experiment
new practices and express new values.
Radical beauty
content of communication: poetic dialogue and action between the
world and grassroots projects or processes that are existing or yet
to be realized process of communication: empowering relations between
people aesthetic: evoking a strong feeling of affection or love with
radical beauty we want to overcome to usual criticism of social
construction of beauty, mostly regarding the representations of women
in media. radical beauty is a theme but also a communications
approach - Therefore we need to channel the concept of radical beauty
in to specific problems/issues
As always, those whose work does not take a conventional format can
enter the Beyond category, where the name of the game is challenging
mainstream practices and beliefs! Beyond continues to grow in
popularity as a category not only because of its avant-garde appeal
but because it is open to non-students as well.
Memefest occurs completely online at www.memefest.org, and all
entries will be available for full access and commentary in the site
galleries. In 2007, Memefest received almost 500 entries from
participants of every continent on the globe ('cept Antarctica). We
hope to get bigger, and to spread more of those good infectious
ideas, so keep thinking- and creating. Deadline for submissions is
May 20th 2007. Good luck!
www.memefest.org
|