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A Meme Is Not a Meme Until It Is a Meme

Talan Memmott, Ass. Prof. of Creative Digital Media at Winona State University will give a talk considering memes as a form of alienation capital, gestic play, and bastardization of contemporary political and social discourse.

Memmott on Memes
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Scott Rettberg

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Talan Memmott is a digital writer/artist/theorist. Memmott has taught and been a researcher in digital art, digital design, electronic writing, new media studies, and digital culture at University of California Santa Cruz; University of Bergen; Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden;  California State University Monterey Bay; the Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Colorado Boulder; and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Digital Media at Winona State University.

Memmott holds an MFA in Literary Arts/Electronic Writing from Brown University and a PhD in Interaction Design/Digital Rhetoric and Poetics from Malmö University. He was a co-editor for the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 (ELO), and the ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature, and is currently  on the Board of Directors for the Electronic Literature Organization.