Acquiring – Editing – Spreading: The Intervening Potential of Internet Memes (B04)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 451897170

Internet memes have the potential to intervene in social negotiation processes. Using an exemplary hybrid phenomenon, the research project takes a look at the complicated conditions which under which (pre-)political agency operates in contemporary digital culture. The starting point of the investigation is the question of how meme culture not only challenges traditional concepts of art, but also produces new forms of social relevance in art by disrupting, modifying, and re-starting processes of media circulation.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1512: Intervening Arts
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Brigitte Weingart