MEMEFEST 2007- ENTERING THE SECOND HALF OF A DECADE OF CREATION,
SUBVERSION, AND RESISTENCE!
Memefest, the International Festival of Radical Communicationborn in
Slovenia and rapidly reaching a critical mass worldwide is proud to
announce its sixth 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 include 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, Luli Radfahrer, Professor at the Communication and Art
School in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and founder of Hipermidia, one of the first
digital communication agencies in that country and Carmen Luke a leading
international scholar in the field of media literacy and new media, feminist
studies and globalization, based in Brisbane.
Traditionally, the Memefest team has asked participants to respond to the
opinions expressed in a selected text using the medium appropriate for each
category (Communication and Sociology- both written, Visual Arts, and
Beyond .). This year, for the first time, we have chosen the same text for
the academic and artistic categories, and, also unlike other years, where
the chosen texts were essays, or book or manifesto excerpts, this year¹s
chosen text is the 1960¹s movie trailer for Alfred Hitchcock¹s The Birds.
This trailer features a witty, cynical, and humorous, yet dark and serious
soliloquy by the director himself.
Even more pertinent (might we say urgent) today than when first seen
generations ago in movie theatres, Hitchcok¹s genius commentary on man¹s
relationship with nature will no doubt provoke a plethora of unequivocal
responses. And, 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 2006,
Memefest received almost 500 entries from participants of every continent on
the globe (Œcept Antarctica). We hope to get bigger, and to spread more of
those good infectious ideas, so keep thinking- and producing.
Deadline for submissions is May 20th 2007.
For more info check www.memefest.org
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