Presented at
HOPE Number Nine (2012),
July 13, 2012, 5 p.m.
(60 minutes)
MemeFactory (Mike Rugnetta, Stephen Bruckert, Patrick Davison)
As grassroots Internet culture grows and flourishes, pushing out into international mainstream recognition, top-down cultural models are threatened and fight back, while governments attempt to quash and chill dissent empowered and organized by the Internet. How are people from the Internet fighting back? What does that even mean? And will it be enough?
MemeFactory is three guys that give tightly rehearsed performative lectures about Internet culture. Their talks document, explore, and critique the emerging culture of the Internet in a visually-focused, fast-paced style that mimics the experience of having ten browser windows open while talking on the phone and watching a YouTube video.
Presenters:
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Patrick Davison
Patrick Davison is pursuing his PhD in media, culture, and communication from the Steinhardt School of NYU, where his research focuses on network genres. He is one third of the Internet performance group MemeFactory. He lives in Brooklyn and likes indie games and indie girls.
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Stephen Bruckert
Stephen Bruckert is a writer, filmmaker, artist, and performer. He loves his dogs, the Internet (which, like soylent green, is actually people), and his wife. His first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 color computer and sometimes he misses having a modem. He is one third of MemeFactory.
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Mike Rugnetta
Mike Rugnetta is a composer, programmer, and performer. He is one third of the fast-paced performative lecture-giving Internet research team that is MemeFactory. He also hosts a web show for PBS called Idea Channel. This one time while bowling, he got two strikes in a row.
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