Hi All
thought a few people might find this of interest.
cheers, russel
Russell Kerr
Honours Coordinator
The Works - RMIT Design Consultancy
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'Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirt, is always creative'.
Paulo Freire 1970
RMIT university CRICOS provider code: 00122A
MEMEFEST 2008- EXPLORING RADICAL BEAUTY OF COMMUNICATION!
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 new media theorist,
activist and founder and director of the Institute of Network
Cultures in Amsterdam, Geert Lovink (http://
www.networkcultures.org/), 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 excelent
and inovative design research collective based in Amsterdam and
Brussels, Metahaven (www.metahaven.net), and theater director
virtuoso, Jernej Lorenci.
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.
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 2008!
Good luck!
www.memefest.org
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