[Air-L] Memetic Tacticality Conference - Nov 11

[Joly MacFie]

[Not an ISOC webcast - just FYI]
Memes Beyond Images: Memetic Tacticality Conference

*When: * November 11, 2022

*Where: * Spui25 Amsterdam, NL

The (political) power of memes has moved beyond virtual images. The
distinction between the virtual and ‘real life’ no longer applies, or
perhaps was never really there. Their effects (or should we say affects?)
are moving through digital infrastructures, policy, regulations, and
bodies. If memes are used as a tool by the alt-right to mobilize people to
storm the Capitol and play a substantial role in the Ukrainian war, can
they also be used by the left to spark a revolution, as memetic warfare is
more immediate and accessible than real-life demonstrations? What kind of
labor would that require? What kind of tools and principles would we need?
And what if memetic logics of spreading information were applied to spread
progressive ideas for a possible future?

On the 11th of November, INC invites various theorists, researchers,
journalists, activists, designers, and other creatives and thinkers to
critically reflect on the tacticality of memes. During a one-day conference
at Spui25, we dive into meme activism & political warfare, meme design &
labor, and speculative memes &  imaginaries. The Memes Beyond the Image
Conference is also the launch of the Critical Meme Reader #2.

This conference is free of charge, takes place at Spui25 in Amsterdam, and
is also live-streamed. More on that here:
https://spui25.nl/programma/memes-beyond-images
*Program *

   - 10:00 – Introduction by Chloë Arkenbout and Laurence Scherz

10:30 – Meme Activism & Political Warfare

   - 10:30 – The Power of Cuteness and the Cuteness of Power: Fandom
   Governance in China within the Covid-19 Crisis, by Jamie Wong
   - 11:10 – Russian Digital Warfare Narratives (and Counter-Narratives) on
   TikTok: On Propaganda in Hyper-Affective and Ambiguous Spaces, by Marloes
   Geboers and Elena Pilipets
   - 11:30 Benevolent Edgelords: Specters of Benjamin and Memetic
   Ambiguity, by Pierre d’Alancaisez

12:10 – BREAK

13:00 – Meme Design & Labor

   - 13:00 – Strategies for Situating Memes in Physical Contexts, interview
   with Cem A. (Freeze Magazine) by Marijn Bril
   - 13:30 – EVERY MEME MAKER WE KNOW IS EXHAUSTED, round table talk with
   Anahita Neghabat, Caren Miesenberger, Savriël Dillingh, Jasmine Erkan, and
   Emma Damiani, moderated by Laurence Scherz
   - 14:30 – Capitalist Realism Meme Translation, interview with Annebel
   Breij by Idil Galip

15:00 – BREAK

15:30 – Speculative Memes & Imaginaries

   - 15:30 – Memes as Speculative Dialectic Images, a conversation between
   Geert Lovink and Marc Tuters
   - 16:00 – The Rise and Fall of Web4U (2033-2063), performance by Jasmine
   Erkan and Emma Damiani
   - 16:46 – Like a Virus, by Tommaso Campagna and Eleni Maragkou
   - 17:05 – ‘Then We Could Explore Space, Together, Forever’: On Hope and
   Memes, by Savriël Dillingh

https://networkcultures.org/events/memes-beyond-images-memetic-tacticality-conference/





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