tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48174910499983961892012-01-15T18:38:07.711-08:00Memefest is an international festival of radical communications that nurtures and rewards innovative and socially responsible approaches to communications. This site is the information page for the developing Australian branch of Memefest. <a href="http://memefest-oz.blogspot.com/search/label/What%20is%20Memefest%3F" ><em>Click here to read more...</em></a>Memefest Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08121600136526127245noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4817491049998396189.post-17997391062051829272008-04-20T16:09:00.000-07:002008-04-20T16:16:41.473-07:00

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

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20-27th June 2008 - A week of projected media spanning Gertrude St, Fitzroy.Viewers can access our outdoor gallery at any hour to gain an insight into how we see our relationship of living, working and playing in an urban city setting.Visit Gertrude St after dark!Launch party 7.00pm on the 20th of June. The program runs all hours from the 20th to the 27 th June 2008 - Incorporating the shortest

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While the web team work on upgrading and updating the Memefest 2008 home site (coming soon) we are happy to announce this year's theme – Radical Beauty. More information can be found here. And the video/text for this year is a segment from the film Rize, available to view here.

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MemeTV is now available at the Memefest website (here). Have a look at the moving image contributions from the 2007 Memefest competition (with several Australian entries) and watch this space for the 2008 Memefest outline ... coming soon.

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Check out the website for the 2007 results, well done to all the winners.

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A project from the School of Visual Arts in NYC:http://design.schoolofvisualarts.edu/youdonate/7.htm

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The 2007 Memefest text is unlike previous texts, which have been essays or manifestos. This year the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds has been chosen. You can view it here: http://www.memefest.org/shared/videos/birds480.mov Made in the 1960s, this footage would originally have been seen in movie theatres and possibly on television. Today, we can watch it in our homes or offices, in

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If you are in Melbourne, get yourself along to this free seminar series at RMIT!Lecture/Seminar: The Art of ChangeThursday, 1 March 2007 to Thursday, 29 March 2007, 5:30pm - 7:30pmA free public seminar series exploring the role of cultural action and the arts in movements for social change. Thursday 1 March, 5.30-7.30pm: Graphic DesignThursday 8 March, 5.30-7.30pm: MusicThursday 15 March, 5.30-

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April 13 - 14, 2007, 8pm to 8pm The Challenge: Leave no environmental footprint for one day In 2006, a group of friends in Melbournepondered what they could do about the climate.It resulted in a 48 hour trial run celebratedwith an unplugged evening of entertainment inFitzroy Gardens.Now you can join The Big Switch Off for 2007.www.thebigswitchoff.org

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Year- round, Memefest serves as a forum for discussion and site for the exposition of radical communications strategies. All are welcome to cruise the site and to comment on content. Each year, Memefest singles out a text and/or image that serves as a focal point for a critical take on the current media environment. In the spring, the festival’s competition opens to both graduate and

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Memefest, an international festival of radical communications, started in Slovenia in 2001. Memefest departs from the principle that too much talent and knowledge is being wasted in marketing communication and other "mind-altering" media practices that spread negative, infectious ideas. However, we believe there is hope. Together, we can explore how ideas are being–and can be–created and spread,

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