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Digital Void: Memes and the Metaverse of Madness

Digital Void’s Memes and the Metaverse of Madness is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers. We’re bringing together academics, comics, journalists, and strategists, to explore the mysteries of the metaverse, uncover the ways memes influence our lives, learn about who is responsible for our virtual future, and laugh about the ways we navigate the web and our world.

From Metaversal raves and Sweet Baby Rays to how we deal with true crime trends on TikTok and wartime memes, Memes and the Metaverse of Madness will travel through cyberspace to help us learn, laugh, and make sense of our rapidly changing world in physical space.

This month we’re collaborating with Mark Vigeant and Sam Reece’s Internet Explorers for the first annual, “Vibes, Memes, and the Metaverse: Internet Festival!” Join us for an educational, esoteric, funny, and surreal evening that will reveal the ways we interact with the internet – and how it interacts with us.

Plus: We’ll be featuring interactive multimedia projects including the Super Fungible Token (and more TBA!)

Featuring:

Ryan Broderick is a journalist, video producer, podcaster, and community moderator. He’s the writer of the Garbage Day newsletter and the host of The Content Mines Podcast.

Gita Jackson is an Award Winning writer and editor with 5+ years’ experience that has written for MTV News, GQ, Kotaku, and Paste Magazine, writing articles that ask their readers to think about the internet and new media entertainment as holistic parts of their lives. Gita currently works for Motherboard, Vice’s technology website, and is featured on the Waypoint Radio podcast.

Kat Tenbarge is a tech and culture reporter for NBC News Digital.

Kalhan Rosenblatt is a 31-year-old teenager and NBC News Digital’s youth and internet culture reporter, covering all things memes, teens and social media. She specializes in covering TikTok, including both the trends that have emerged from the platform and the ways in which those trends influence the behavior of young people. When she’s not working, she spends way too much of her time — you guessed it — scrolling TikTok.

Jenny Chang is a writer, brand strategist, and cultural theorist fascinated by pop culture’s intersection with social systems and power structures. She’s most well-known in the strategy community for her PowerPoint analyses of TikTok and Gen Z, sexuality and power in Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP,” and morality in a pandemic through the lens of The Good Place.

zoe christen jones is a reporter at CBS News, where she report on LGBTQ+ politics, trending news, civil rights and culture.

Dr. Jamie Cohen is a digital culture expert and a writer, speaker, educator, and producer. He founded a college degree in internet studies, wrote a textbook on the subject and is the co-author of the first peer reviewed paper on Pepe the Frog.

& more TBA











When: Sat., Apr. 30, 2022 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Caveat
21 Clinton St.
212-228-2100
Price: $15
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Digital Void’s Memes and the Metaverse of Madness is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers. We’re bringing together academics, comics, journalists, and strategists, to explore the mysteries of the metaverse, uncover the ways memes influence our lives, learn about who is responsible for our virtual future, and laugh about the ways we navigate the web and our world.

From Metaversal raves and Sweet Baby Rays to how we deal with true crime trends on TikTok and wartime memes, Memes and the Metaverse of Madness will travel through cyberspace to help us learn, laugh, and make sense of our rapidly changing world in physical space.

This month we’re collaborating with Mark Vigeant and Sam Reece’s Internet Explorers for the first annual, “Vibes, Memes, and the Metaverse: Internet Festival!” Join us for an educational, esoteric, funny, and surreal evening that will reveal the ways we interact with the internet – and how it interacts with us.

Plus: We’ll be featuring interactive multimedia projects including the Super Fungible Token (and more TBA!)

Featuring:

Ryan Broderick is a journalist, video producer, podcaster, and community moderator. He’s the writer of the Garbage Day newsletter and the host of The Content Mines Podcast.

Gita Jackson is an Award Winning writer and editor with 5+ years’ experience that has written for MTV News, GQ, Kotaku, and Paste Magazine, writing articles that ask their readers to think about the internet and new media entertainment as holistic parts of their lives. Gita currently works for Motherboard, Vice’s technology website, and is featured on the Waypoint Radio podcast.

Kat Tenbarge is a tech and culture reporter for NBC News Digital.

Kalhan Rosenblatt is a 31-year-old teenager and NBC News Digital’s youth and internet culture reporter, covering all things memes, teens and social media. She specializes in covering TikTok, including both the trends that have emerged from the platform and the ways in which those trends influence the behavior of young people. When she’s not working, she spends way too much of her time — you guessed it — scrolling TikTok.

Jenny Chang is a writer, brand strategist, and cultural theorist fascinated by pop culture’s intersection with social systems and power structures. She’s most well-known in the strategy community for her PowerPoint analyses of TikTok and Gen Z, sexuality and power in Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP,” and morality in a pandemic through the lens of The Good Place.

zoe christen jones is a reporter at CBS News, where she report on LGBTQ+ politics, trending news, civil rights and culture.

Dr. Jamie Cohen is a digital culture expert and a writer, speaker, educator, and producer. He founded a college degree in internet studies, wrote a textbook on the subject and is the co-author of the first peer reviewed paper on Pepe the Frog.

& more TBA

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