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Screen Walk with Aidan Walker
About this film
In this screen walk, Aidan Walker guided the audience across the internet and across history, following three memes: Distracted Boyfriend, Patrick Chained, and Dark Brandon. Tracing the web of reposts, remixes, and "reply guys" that enables meme spread, he led a tour of the social internet as it existed between 2017 and 2023. When a scientist puts a GPS monitor on the foot of a migrating bird, they gain insight not just into that individual animal but into its flock, its species, and its entire ecosystem. Memes are like those birds. Through following memes and their evolutions, we can gain insight not just into them but into the broader forces and systems that steer their movement—and, increasingly, our lives. Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery , UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland.
Directors & creators
Screen Walks
Subjects
Screen Walks, memes, research, aesthetics, circulation, history
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