READINGS

Out now: „Contested Image Practices of Public Shaming“ by Verena Straub.

The article analyses the conflictual affective dimensions of an Internet-meme that emerged in 2010, in response to an act of shaming by an Israeli soldier.
Published here: https://www.routledge.com/Affective-Formation-of-Publics-Places-Networks-and-Media/Lunenborg-Rottger-Rossler/p/book/9781032430317

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Let’s introduce our project: References to Contemporary Art!

Image protests and contemporary art are linked in multiple ways. Artists negotiate, appropriate and reflect upon Internet memes and videos of police violence. To what extent can artistic appropriations serve as a mode of image protest of its own?

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METHODS

Meet Clusterduck:
Clusterduck is a work collective which is focussing social media interactions via memes and the impact of memes on real life. Their latest work “Detective Wall” as part of their project “Meme Manifesto” is currently displayed at KW in Berlin. It is focussing the connections between memes as a brought variety of statements, intentions and opinions all similar in their appearance but a the same time elusive.

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Image Protest READINGS:

How does the selfie function as a protest tool? Do image phenomena on the internet create a global community? Kerstin Schankweiler uses protest movements around the world to show the dynamics that rapidly disseminated images can develop in the age of social media.

Kerstin Schankweiler's book "Bildproteste" has become essential reading for scholars from various disciplines who study the role of images in protest cultures.

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Let's introduce our second sub-project: Videos of Police Violence.

Videos of police violence have a particularly mobilising force in social media. Up until now, videos showing violence against migrants have received little attention. What are the specific aesthetics and distribution channels of these images? Are there iconographic patterns that could be situated historically?

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Protest IMAGES:

It looks like a photoshop prank: a man is standing in front of four gigantic yellow rubber ducks. And yet the term “big yellow duck” got censored, 2013 in China.
What happened?

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Image Protests - READINGS

How can images establish migration as a crisis? The book "Moving Images" pursues how cybernetics and surveillance technologies in the border zone produce images of illegalized migration. Published in 2020, it is still an outstanding collection of essays, interviews and artistic practices that focus on the imagery of migration, border crossings and the migrant body.

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Let's introduce our first sub-project: Memes as Political Image Practice

Memes are more than funny images circulating the web. In the context of political protests, they serve complex communicative functions. Which aesthetics, which platforms and algorithms render memes politically effective?
The aim of this sub-project is to investigate the ambivalent visual resonance effects within a meme complex and highlight the uncontrollability of meme protests.

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Since January 2022 we research how images shape protest movements on social media. Our @dfg_public research project on Image protest @tudresden investigates Internet memes, videos of border violence and their relation to art.

Our Team:
Kerstin Schankweiler
Verena Straub
Tanja-Bianca Schmidt
Kay Zeisig

Check out our website, link in bio.

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