[spectre] Announce: CAMPAIGNS / COUNTER-CAMPAIGNS

[Eric Kluitenberg]

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Critical Design Discourses #2:


CAMPAIGNS / COUNTER-CAMPAIGNS

Corporate Hacking & Culture Jams


De Balie
Thursday June 13
Start: 20.00 hrs

Web Cast @ http://www.balie.nl/live


A billboard with stark white characters against a red background, white
NIKE swoosh and a black and white images of a pair of boots: "The most
offensive boots we ever made 100% slave labour". If you thought that a
radical action group against child labour in Asian NIKE sweatshops
presented its agit-prop here, you are mislead. An advertisement agency in
Australia developed this controversial campaign for billboards in the urban
public space.

Are social groups still able to communicate in the aggressive visual
environments of contemporary capitalist societies?
What is left of the activist strategy of modified, "improved" or even
"liberated" billboards?
Does subvertising, the subversion of advertisement within its own visual
language - the genre on which Adbusters seems to hold a patent - still make
any sense, when companies re-appropriate the activist subversions so
effectively?
How do political and social movements campaign in this post-modern media
landscape?

An evening about the struggle for symbols, with: Jonathan Barnbrook,
designer - created several campaigns for Adbusters, Eveline Lubbers,
investigative journalist, she recently published a book about Corporate
Counter-Campaigns, Ilze Black on Subvertising in Riga (Latvia) and design
critic Max Bruinsma, chaired by Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie).

Also live via internet:
   http://www.balie.nl/live
and
   http://live.dds.nl/


URLs and background information:

* Subvertising in Riga:
   http://open.x-i.net

* Jonathan Barnbrook:
   http://www.virusfonts.com
   http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/first/toolbox/agitators/barnbrook.html

* Eveline Lubbers:
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~evel/
   Boek: Battling Big Business
   http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eevel/pandora/prop.htm

* The Smell of Swoosh:
   (artikel over de genoemde NIKE campagne)
   http://www.adbusters.org/creativeresistance/36/1.html

* Signs of the Times - Naomi Klein in The Nation:
   http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011022&s=klein

* Adbusters - Culture Jammers Headquarters:
   http://www.adbusters.org/

* Max Bruinsma:
   http://www.xs4all.nl/~maxb/


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Tickets and reservation:

Admission: E 7,50  (with reduction: E 5,00)
Reservations: during working days from 13.00-18.00 hrs or till the start of
the program.
In the weekend 1,5 hrs before programs start.
Reservation number: +31 (0)20 -  55 35 100 during opening hours till 45
minutes before the start of the program.

De Balie
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10
Amsterdam

http://www.balie.nl