Book presentation
Dirk von Gehlen (MEME) and Tilman Baumgärtel (GIFS)

Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Maschinenhaus M0

Due to the current pandemic, the event will be closed to the public and will be recorded. The video will be published soon.

Dirk von Gehlen in Conversation with Tilman Baumgärtel (in German)

Are memes an independent digital dialect – and if so, who speaks it? Are GIF animations, technically obsolete remainders from the early days of the internet, a new form of folk art? And do memes and GIFs promote political polarization – or do they present new democratic forms of communication? Dirk von Gehlen and Tilman Baumgärtel discuss how these two visual phenomena occur on social media, as well as their intersections and differences.

The series DIGITALE BILDKULTUREN published by Wagenbach discusses the most important new forms and uses of images and places them in their cultural-historical context.

Cooperation with Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin and DeutschlandfunkKultur

The conversation will take place in German

All current hygiene regulations apply.