| Oliver Vodeb on Wed, 21 May 2008 19:43:01 +0200 (CEST) |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
| <nettime-ann> <call for works> MEMEFEST 08 exploring RADICAL BEAUTY IN COMMUNICATION |
.
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. This year's festival theme is RADICAL BEAUTY. Participants will
respond to an excerpt taken from the movie Rize
and comment on it with their works. 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, new media theorist, activist and founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, (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 excellent and innovative design research collective based in Amsterdam and Brussels, Metahaven (www.metahaven.net), and
- Jernej Lorenci, theater director virtuoso.
Beauty is a cultural creation
that expresses dominant values. In the 21st century, beauty is often extremely
commercialized. We define radical beauty as a cultural creation that expresses
the desire for 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 the 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 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!
Meme team.
_______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann