Meme Reading Club
No meme stands alone. Bring your meme. Take a seat. Let’s read the internet.
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About the event
20 participants. One circle. Each arrives with a meme on their phone. One by one, we show and tell — offering up these fragments of digital culture for collective reflection. We read them aloud, together. Interpretations overlap, clash, unravel.
No meme stands alone. Bring your meme. Take a seat. Let’s read the interne 20 people capacity - please RSVP here
Artist
Damjanski is an artist living in a browser. Concerned with themes of power, poetry and participation, he explores the concept of apps as artworks. The app 'Bye Bye Camera' is the camera for the post-human era. Every picture people take automatically removes any person. The app 'Never Not There' transformed the ZKM museum in Karlsruhe and the Centre Pompidou in Paris into dystopian server rooms and the 'LongARcat' app creates long cats in Augmented Reality.
In 2018, he co-founded 'MoMAR', an Augmented Reality gallery app aimed at democratizing physical exhibition spaces, art institutions and curatorial processes within New York’s Museum of Modern Art. WIRED covered the launch with the headline "Augmented Reality Is Transforming Museums".
In 2019, he created an online space that only programs can access. This software performance, called 'Humans not invited', first hit Reddit’s front page before it was shown at the König Galerie in Berlin.
In 2024, he launched 'Still Here', a site-specific and permanent Augmented Reality sculpture of himself floating above the entire island of Manhattan in New York.
His work has appeared internationally at the Centre Pompidou, ZKM Karlsruhe, MAMM, NRW-Forum, Kunsthalle Zürich, Postmasters, Office Impart, Rhizome, NEORT+, Photo Elysée, Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires, Roehrs & Boetsch, Pioneer Works and König Galerie.
Currently Damjanski resides in New York.
