In the organizer's words:

On December 6, we are dedicating an entire day to meme culture at this year's Hunting & Collecting Symposium "It's a meme" and you are cordially invited to join us and attend the annual gift reception afterwards. From funny cats to information dissemination, between doomscrolling and self-empowerment, our program is about ephemerality and longevity, community and exclusion, art and non-art, truth and lies. Memes are visual earworms, attention machines, snippets, remixes, recombinations, referential networks and creative forms of expression that can spread, have an impact, trigger emotions and be identity-forming or political. While the academic world is trying to grasp this phenomenon, memes have long been an indispensable part of everyday life for many.

Our following guests bring a variety of perspectives and offer lectures, artistic positions and media-critical impulses that convey basic knowledge, provide tools and take the first steps into the depths of internet culture:

Among them are the artists Max Kersting, Max Dauven and Lennard Hertz & Nathalie Schatz, the brains behind "Gustaver der Liebe" and Laura Hille. Research impulses will come from memecultures.de (sub-project of the Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts) with Gwen Schlüter and Prof. Dr. Brigitte Weingart.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

12:30 Admission

12:45 Welcome and introduction: Viktor Hois and Marie Hübner, Symposium Director

13:00 Lecture: Micro Meta Post Politics. And memes, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Weingart and Gwen Schlüter, memecultures.de

13:40 Reading: Old Photos Forever? Max Kersting

14:45 Lecture: The thirteenth task. Memes and viral media between subculture and mainstream, Max Dauven

15:40 Lecture: Tech Bros and their memes, Laura Hille

16:15 Q&A: memecultures.de, Laura Hille & Max Dauven, moderated by Viktor Hois

17:00 Lecture: HDL by GDL, Gustaver der Liebe

17:40 Q&A: memecultures.de, Max Kersting & Gustaver der Liebe, moderated by Marie Hübner

18:30 Annual gift reception, Phoxxi: Presentation of collector's items, welcome, moderation: Ulrich Rüter

Register now, we look forward to seeing you!
Registration at the link:
freundeskreisphotographie.de/termine/its-a-meme/

Price information:

Admission: 20 euros (members/students) / 25 euros (non-members) Yeah, participation in the annual gift reception is free of charge.