Meme Art and Art Engagement in the Post Internet World

TIFA Working Studios  and  Avid Learning  present  Meme Art and Art Engagement in the Post-Internet World  as the debut episode of a new Art Series  Art Redefined Today (A.R.T) 2020.  

In a post-Internet world, social media is the new playground for art where the registers of consumption and originality are exploded and redefined. Memes are emerging as a humorous way to leverage Art historical images to educate, comment and shape/change cultural commentary.  

Independent Arts Manager, Exhibition Consultant, & creator of #ArtWorldMemes  Abhinit Khanna, Content Creator (@deepfriedneurons), Curator of Meme Regime at TIFA Working Studios  Anuj Nakade  and Social Media Influencer @southbombaymemes  Nivedita Bansal  will be in conversation with Illustrator, Animator and Independent Comic Publisher  Abhijeet Kini.  

Memes are not pure visual objects. Memes and Meme Art owe a great deal to fine art and the art-historical canon and are arguably the digital descendants of Dadaism, Pop Art, anti-consumerist performance art, graffiti etc.- and has today to become a genre all its own- one that has attitude and aesthetic. How has Meme art changed art engagement and democratised and proliferated knowledge of art history? Are memes Anti-art or have they contributed to transitioning fine art into the digital space that is truly democratic? Conversely, has fine art as we know it been diluted to also encompass graphic arts and illustration? Are memes museum-worthy? 

These speakers will unpack the meme phenomenon that has captured the imagination of an entire generation of future stakeholders for the arts. 

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This four-part series will re-energise conversations around Art and the future of Art by engaging with emerging issues and trends and also focusing on taking the conversation beyond – into the stratosphere of Indian contemporary art of tomorrow. Topics to be touched upon include Meme Art and the Future of Art Engagement, Redefining Traditional Art in today’s world, Identity and Body politics in 2020 and Intersections between Science, Technology and Art.