The text and lecture Let’s Kill 2016 attempt to articulate the inner workings of contemporary online culture and explore why internet aesthetics, memes, and visual languages constantly return, recycle, and function recursively.
Drawing from the flood of archival images, memes, and aesthetics from 2016 currently recirculating on social media, the lecture treats the internet as a space where the linear experience of time collapses into a continuous layering of the past, present, and speculations about the future. It pays special attention to the interactions between the dynamics of native online culture, algorithmic curation, and the structural elements of the modern web. Through examples from meme culture, online aesthetics, and digital platforms, the lecture and text explore how the internet produces a sense of simultaneity, repetition, and temporal loops, and how these processes are reflected more broadly in contemporary culture and everyday life.
Free admission.
Organisation: DobraVaga / Kino Šiška.
