Meme Café

This interactive exhibition looks at the growing role of memes in digital society, focusing on meme characters.

What stories do anonymous internet users share on internet forums? Come to >be me, where the special selection of 'greentexts' will inspire you to take part/post yourself.

Combining a digital art series with video art, the work humorously questions the power of consumerism in the post-internet age. The videos explore the current state of our hyper-connectivity while the digital art series focuses on internet aesthetics and its relationships with modern art. 'Digital garbage' (screenshots, personal photos and unused selfies), is used, further incorporating popular meme aesthetics.

Remember Trumpet Boy? Rewind of the best memes in 2018, with an explanation by 15-year-old meme expert Tobias Kers.

Eric Allen Hatch is a festival programmer and film critic who believes that making and appreciating memes can broaden knowledge and taste and so facilitate deeper engagement with film culture. Meme-rIFFR provides examples of Hatch's and other meme-makers' work, and invites the audience to use the templates to help them plunge into the strange but wonderful world of crafting dank art-house memes.

In 2008, RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago uploaded a hand-drawn animated video Octocat Adventures, about a red cat head with eight legs looking for its parents. In the final episode, the videos were revealed to be made by 3D animator David OReilly. OReilly made Octocat Story out of the wave of fan art about Octocat that sprawled over the internet.

What is truth? Based on fragments from the still expanding online Slenderman myth, the audience can itself decide what is real and what is not. See also A Self-Induced Hallucination.