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.
Also in this combined programme
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>be me
What stories do anonymous internet users share on internet forums? Come to >be me, where the special selection of ‘greentexts’ will inspire yo -
#MEMEPROPAGANDA Goes to Rotterdam
This interactive exhibition looks at the growing role of memes in digital society, focusing on meme characters. -
Slenderman Is Real // Slenderman Is Fake
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.… -
Octocat Story
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… -
Meme-rIFFR
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… -
Meme Rewind 2018
Remember Trumpet Boy? Rewind of the best memes in 2018, with an explanation by 15-year-old meme expert Tobias Kers.
Film details
- Countries of production
- China, USA
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- None
