[artinfo] <call> MEMEFEST 08- EXPLORING RADICAL BEAUTY OF COMMUNICATION!

[Oliver Vodeb]

*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:

n      Geert Lovink, ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­new media theorist, activist and
founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, (
http://www.networkcultures.org/)

n      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

n      P.K. Langshaw, the Chair of and Associate Professor in the Department
of the Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal,
Quebec

n      Jason Grant, Director of Inkahoots (http://www.inkahoots.com.au), the
adventurous graphic design studio in Brisbane, Australia

n      Gon Zifroni from the great design research collective based in
Amsterdam and Brussels, Metahaven (www.metahaven.net), and

n      Jernej Lorenci, theatre director virtuoso.

Web site and poster design was created by Zoe Romano and Kernow Craig

*Here is how we defined radical beauty in the context of Memefest 08:*

Beauty is a cultural creation that expresses dominant values. In the 21st
century, beauty is often extremely commercialised. 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 and best wishes!

www.memefest.org


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dr. Oliver Vodeb

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