Memefest 2004 Visual Arts competition

[George Lessard]

-May 20 deadline


Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:26:33 +0200
To: debracash at igc.org
Subject: Memefest2004 Visual Arts competition now open
From: Memefest - festival of radical communication <memefest at memefest.org>
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Art and design students! Prick up your ears!

Memefest 2004 Visual Arts competition guidelines now available at 
<http://www.memefest.org>www.memefest.org

Blogs, town halls, and smart mobs. Seems everywhere you turn these 
days people are speaking up. The silhouettes in the audience are 
grabbing those microphones and claiming a little "I'm Mad As Hell" 
time. No wonder then that designers and artists and visual 
communicators of all stripes are wading into the fray and lending 
their talents to the great collective push to reclaim the soapbox.

This year, Memefest wants to explore the motivations, the methods, 
and the particular madness of designers who pass up cash and glory in 
order to spend their free time promoting social movements.

To that end, the 2004 Visual Arts Competition is seeking 
politically-engaged design and! visual work from artists, animators, 
graphic designers and multimedia manipulators. Deadline for 
submissions is May 20th 2004. Get the details at 
<http://www.memefest.org>www.memefest.org.

A little background...

Memefest is the International Festival of Radical Communications. 
It's goal is to encourage Design, Communications, and Sociology 
students -- most of whom are being groomed for careers in advertising 
-- to turn their talents against the hand that may end up feeding 
them. Students are challenged to submit visual work, multimedia 
pieces and essays which grapple with market culture or try to 
redirect communications strategies towards the creation of positive 
social change.

There is also a special category open to non students as well. Check 
Beyond <http://beyond.memefest.org>here

The submitted works are then commented on and judged by a panel that 
includes leading radical thinkers, visual artists, and 
commu!nications professionals from around the globe. Memefest occurs! 
almost 100% online and last year our virtual gallery was filled up 
with 250 entries from 26 countries.

Memefest crawled out of Slovenia's academic and artistic mix in 2002 
as a response to the country's cultural environment. Having been 
exposed to concentrated doses of branding and commercial information 
over the decade since their country embraced capitalism, the founders 
of Memefest decided it was time to make some space for a critical 
look at the beast that has been running wild. Since this time, the 
crew that puts Memefest together has been growing, picking up media 
malcontents in Canada through Adbusters Media Foundation, and around 
the world through its website, 
<http://www.memefest.org>www.memefest.org.


The Organizers of Memefest 2004.

  " A long memory is the most radical idea in America."
			-Claire Sparks