Three gentlemen with five computers and three projectors take the audience on a fast-paced and whirlwind tour of every major internet meme, famous piece of internet media and upwards of three hours of youTube footage over the course of one and one half of one hour. The modus is not depth, but breadth, and constant audience participation. The goal of the evening is to produce an audience generated entry of every internet phenomenon as possible, including but not limited to: LOLCats, Bouncing GIFs, Me Singing [blank], Reaction Videos, Folk Covers of Hip Hop Classics, FAILs, Redubbed music videos, and more. You can think of it as somewhere between a lecture, vaudeville and Double Dare.
You can find media from all previous Memefactories on flickr, vimeo and bandcamp. We’re working on getting this all better organized, so if you notice something is missing or can’t find something – let us know!
[...] at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, a collective called Meme Factory will be conducting a retrospective (if you may) of every possible micro viral internet phenomenon [...]
[...] to spark (or reinforce) your interest. First, (via Biella) a two-part series from an event by the Meme Factory, from March 24th of this year, in which they give a ~45 minute overview of internet memes. [...]
[...] NYC based lecture-performance-group What We Know So Far (and subsequently, the incredibly slick MemeFactory), will be attending ROFLCon II in the spring! MemeFactory is possibly one of the sharpest captures [...]
[...] videos, and more. You can think of it as somewhere between a lecture, vaudeville and Double Dare. http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/memefactory/ May 3, 12:47 Trackback [...]
The folks over at The Conflux Festival asked us some questions about our work: developments after last years Conflux performance, what we’ve been up to recently and our thoughts on the ever-changing technology landscape.
The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video.
This year, MemeFactory will be attending to deliver a brand-new all-open all-video performance. Slated for this time around: iPhone controlled laptops, TCP/IP coordinated Keynotes, live-tweeted attribution, HTML 5 supported streaming simulcast, and MORE FUNNY, EMBARRASSING, AND CONFUSING VIDEOS THAN YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN ONE PLACE BEFORE IN YOUR LIFE.
We’re in the middle of developing – and hopefully will soon begin executing – our plan for 2010. We had a really successful 2009 and we owe that to the literally hundreds of people who came out to see our shows at 3rd Ward, Judson Memorial Church, and NYU just to name a few. We never imagined shows about Hannah Montana and pictures of cats from the internet would draw enough of a crowd that we’d have standing room only in a 200+ seat auditorium, so as performers and performance-makers we’re thrilled for all the support.
So on that note, if 2009 was our year to perform as much as we possibly could, we’re going to be spending 2010 making as much as we can. Which means you’re probably going to be seeing less of us IRL over the next 9 to 12 months, but we’ll be making frequent updates here and hopefully producing a wealth of online / media only content.
In the works right now we have:
• Further updates to Loan Words
• Further publications of textual works based on YouTube comments
• Two audio only works which look like they might exceed 5hrs in length
• A Memerelated video series (sans-lab coats, of course).
Not to mention three performances ranging from smallish to … Gimantis™. We’ll make further updates as they are worth making but, the rundown looks something like this:
• MemeFactory: Memebrids NYU – Feb 19th (not yet sure if this is open to the public).
• Forwards\Backwards – Sometime in August at a currently undisclosed location.
And as always it’s possible things might change, and we’re all doing a fair bit of traveling and have a fair number of non-wwksf projects in the works as well. But between now and further updates, Happy 2010 and thanks again for your continued and most awesome support.
For friends and fans who have yet to hear the exciting news, WWKSF has been invited to the so-cool-we’re-not-even-sure-how-it’s-possible pre-eminent conference on Internet Famo: ROFLCON II! The thought we’ll be in the same room as Wes and Tony from Amazing Superpowers, all the big players in the 3WM saga and OMG RANDALL MUNROE is thrilling.
The conference is sometime in April in Cambridge, MA and once we have more details – like exact date, location, and what we’ll be talking about – we’ll be sure to let you know. Until then, keep up to date on all the other awesome guests at roflcon.org.
On Thursday August 13th, WWKSF will be presenting an evening works including a revised and updated (since April!) Hannah Complex, the premiere of two brand spanking new video pieces and a shorter, updated, MemeFactory.
Personnel includes (but is not limited to, and in no particular order): Kate Reilly, Eric Grundhauser, Guy Snover, Matt Kugler, Stephen Bruckert, Karen Lanyi, Patrick Davison, Mike Rugnetta…and a bunch more.
HANNAH COMPLEX
At the center of the evening is The Hannah Complex, a performance for two vocalists, slide show and music. The Hannah Complex is about reality, and the ways in which we, as members of it, are able to interact with and even control it. It sounds complicated, we know, but don’t worry – it involves Hannah Montana. The Hannah Complex explains why it is certain images seek to replicate themselves endlessly, and why some of us are capable of being at once ourselves and also … well … anyone else.
NEW NEWS
A video piece for 5 voices and cut up, filtered text from Spam emails. Including everything from a weatherman to sportscaster and Correspondents in the Field, New News has all the looks of a real broadcast news show and exactly the same amount of meaningless drivel to match.
LOAN WORDS
A video piece for 1 vocalist, visual aid and music. As the world economy gets progressively worse, foreign nations are calling in their debts. Most notably are the words which were loaned to the English language for temporary usage. As we can no longer keep current on payments resulting from the use of such popular words as alcohol, ketchup and zombie… Loan Words offers some suggestions of replacement words for these and other lexical outliers.
MEMEFACTORY
The Memescape changes overnight, and since our last MemeFactory show at 3rd Ward there have been alot of nights. Much has changed, disappeared or been created. This shortened performance doesn’t include an audience participation element (at least not in the same way we did it last time) but will certainly get all those interested up to date in the latest of silly Internet Media Trends.
We’re hard at work on a bunch of new stuff, and polishing up some older work. We have a bunch of upcoming shows which we’ll post about within the next couple days: 3rd Ward, NYU and beyond (maybe even Texas and Canada? Who knows!).
[...] at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, a collective called Meme Factory will be conducting a retrospective (if you may) of every possible micro viral internet phenomenon [...]
[...] I can just point people to the Meme Factory –to three youngish guys from Brooklyn who put together a **fantastic show**** a few weeks ago [...]
[...] to spark (or reinforce) your interest. First, (via Biella) a two-part series from an event by the Meme Factory, from March 24th of this year, in which they give a ~45 minute overview of internet memes. [...]
[...] NYC based lecture-performance-group What We Know So Far (and subsequently, the incredibly slick MemeFactory), will be attending ROFLCon II in the spring! MemeFactory is possibly one of the sharpest captures [...]
[...] videos, and more. You can think of it as somewhere between a lecture, vaudeville and Double Dare. http://www.whatweknowsofar.com/memefactory/ May 3, 12:47 Trackback [...]
[...] | Empresas/grupos que estudam os memes e a web: BuzzFeed / Jonah Peretti The Meme Factory [...]
[...] year’s OVC will host a MemeFactory performance all about viral internet [...]
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