Digital Void

17/10/2022

🎃 Are you ready for NYC's Halloween Festival of Memes? Join the internet's funniest and most engaging meme thinkers on Wednesday, October 26 at 7:00 PM live from Caveat in the East Village!

🔥 Speakers include...
☠️ Mitch Horowitz, award-winning author, lecturer, and narrator.
☠️ Jamal Jordan, author of Q***R LOVE IN COLOR; USC Fellow
☠️ Allegra Frank, Deputy Entertainment Editor, Daily Beast
☠️ Shamira Ibrahim, freelance culture writer
☠️ Makena Kelly, reporter, The Verge
☠️ Karen K. Ho, freelance writer and reporter
☠️ Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day writer

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available:

The Meme in the Moment Festival is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers. We’re bringing together academics, award-winning authors, comics, journalists, and strategists, to explore meme mysteries, reveal the ways memes influence our lives, l...

18/05/2022

🔥 Did you grab your tickets for Brooklyn's Internet Festival? Check out this all-star lineup & join us May 26 at littlefield!

🎉 Featuring comedy, live podcasts, podcasts, and talks, from Founder and Host of There Are No Girls on the Internet Bridget Todd, Scam Economy host Matt Binder, Off The Edge author Kelly Weill comedians Dylan Adler and Jake Flores, and New Public Head of Operations Joi Rae, interactive media, live podcast tapings, and more!

🎟 Tickets are moving fast - get yours now! 👇
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-void-festival-brooklyn-tickets-304400178127

28/04/2022

🎇 NYC's Internet Festival is THIS SATURDAY at Caveatt!

✨ Join us for an evening where we reveal the influence of memes on our lives and explore the mysteries of the metaverse.

Featuring...

🎉 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.

🎉 Jennifer M. 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 reports on LGBTQ+ politics, trending news, civil rights and culture.

🎉 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.

🎉 Jamie Cohen, PhD Cohen is a digital culture expert and a writer, speaker, educator, and producer. He founded a New Media degree in higher education, wrote a textbook on the subject and is the co-author of the first peer reviewed paper on Pepe the Frog.

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-void-memes-and-the-metaverse-of-madness-tickets-293234340807

Digital Void’s Memes and the Multiverse of Madness is a festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers.

22/04/2022

"Are You The As***le (AYTA) is, as its name suggests, built to mimic Reddit’s r/AmITheAs***le (AITA) crowdsourced advice forum. Created by internet artists Morris Kolman and Alexander Petros with funding from Digital Void, the site lets you enter a scenario and ask for advice about it — and then generates a series of feedback posts responding to your situation. The feedback does a remarkably good job of capturing the style of real human-generated responses, but with the weird, slightly alien skew that many AI language models produce."

📰 Read more about our latest collaboration at The Verge!
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/20/23033694/are-you-the-asshole-ai-reddit-clone-art-project-ethics-aita

Learning about AI bias has never been more fun.

12/04/2022

Who’s coming to NYC’s Festival of Memes & The Metaverse on April 30? 🎉

We’re bringing together NYC’s top journalists, educators, and speakers for an evening of memes, the metaverse, interactive projects, education, and laughs.

👉 Buy your tickets now
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-void-memes-and-the-metaverse-of-madness-tickets-293234340807

Digital Void’s Memes and the Multiverse of Madness is a festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers.

06/04/2022

🎉 We're thrilled to announce Memes and the Metaverse of Madness Festival at NYC's Caveat on Saturday, April 30!

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.

Featuring...

🎉 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.

🎉 Jennifer M. 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 reports on LGBTQ+ politics, trending news, civil rights and culture.

🎉 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.

🎉 Jamie Cohen, PhD Cohen is a digital culture expert and a writer, speaker, educator, and producer. He founded a New Media degree in higher education, wrote a textbook on the subject and is the co-author of the first peer reviewed paper on Pepe the Frog.

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-void-memes-and-the-metaverse-of-madness-tickets-293234340807

Digital Void’s Memes and the Multiverse of Madness is a festival featuring the internet’s most critical, funny, and engaging thinkers.

15/12/2021

🎉 TODAY ONLY: Take $5 Off Your Tickets to NYC's Internet Culture Festival on December 21 at Caveat NYC! Use promo code "TEAMHUMAN" at checkout.

The 2021 Internet Culture Festival is an interactive festival featuring speakers, panels, countdowns, and quirky slideshows reviewing the year in internet culture.

We’re bringing together academics, journalists, authors, podcasters, and strategists to explore memes, big tech, web 3.0, gaming, streaming, and surveillance.

Featuring: Keynote speaker Dr. André Brock Jr, Carlos Maza, Brandy Zadrozny, Bridget Todd, Julia Alexander, Allegra Frank, Ryan Broderick, Kalhan Rosenblatt & more!

🎟 Buy Tickets or Livestream Now 👇
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-2021-internet-culture-festival-12-21-2021

The 2021 Internet Culture Festival is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, engaging, and fun internet thinkers.

30/11/2021

🎉 Are you ready for NYC’s Internet Culture Festival? Join the internet’s most hilarious and engaging thinkers on Tuesday, December 21, at 7:00 PM live from Caveat in the East Village.

🎇 From cryptocurrency and memes to the streaming wars and fandoms, the 2021 Internet Culture Festival will look back on the year in internet culture to help us understand how we can make sense of the web, be more critical of the systems that make up so much of our everyday lives, celebrate (and interrogate) the memes we share, and challenge us to help create to a healthier internet.

Featuring:
💥 Dr. André Brock, Jr
💥 Brandy Zadrozny
💥 Carlos Maza
💥 Allegra Frank
💥 Julia Alexander
💥 Offbeat Media GroupCo-Founders Bailey Grady & Shep Ogden
💥 Rachel E. Greenspan
💥 Kalhan Rosenblatt
💥 Douglas Rushkoff
💥 Bijan Stephen
💥 Grafton Tanner
💥 Ryan Broderick
💥 Jamie Cohen, PhD.

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available 👇
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-2021-internet-culture-festival-12-21-2021

The 2021 Internet Culture Festival is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, engaging, and fun internet thinkers.

29/11/2021

🎉 Are you ready for NYC's Internet Culture Festival? Celebrate the year in internet culture live at Caveat on Tuesday, December 21!

🎇 From cryptocurrency and political movements to memes and the streaming wars, the 2021 Internet Culture Festival will look back on the year in internet culture to help us understand how we can make sense of the web, be more critical of the systems that make up so much of our everyday lives, celebrate (and interrogate) the memes we share, and challenge us to help create to a healthier internet.

Featuring: Dr. André Brock, Jr, Brandy Zadrozny, Carlos Maza, Allegra Frank, Julia Alexander, Offbeat Media Group Co-Founders Bailey Grady and Shep Ogden, Rachel E. Greenspan, Kalhan Rosenblatt, Douglas Rushkoff, Bijan Stephen, Grafton Tanner, Ryan Broderick, and Jamie Cohen, PhD.

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available 👇
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-2021-internet-culture-festival-12-21-2021

The 2021 Internet Culture Festival is an interactive festival featuring the internet’s most critical, engaging, and fun internet thinkers.

19/10/2021

🎃 Are you ready for NYC's Halloween Festival of Memes? Join the internet's most engaging meme thinkers on Wednesday, October 27 at 7:00 PM live from Caveat in the East Village.

We're exploring internet culture in physical space. Join us as we explore internet occultism, the rise of conspiracy theories and the creepy history of the internet with the internet's brightest minds.

Speakers include:
💀 NBC's Kalhan Rosenblatt
💀 Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick
💀 Insider's Kat Tenbarge
💀 The Verge's Makena Kelly
💀 Insider's Rachel E. Greenspan
💀 Culture writer Moises Mendez II
💀 Cultural Strategist Matt Klein

👽 Hosted by memeticist Dr. Jamie Cohen

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available:
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-the-meme-in-the-moment-festival-make-it-spoopy-10-27-2021

From the fun and quirky to the hidden messages contained within: Are we influencing memes, or are they influencing us?

27/09/2021

What strategies can we use to overcome online harassment and doxing?

2017 College Jeopardy winner, author of How to Survive a Public Faming: “Understanding “The Spiciest Memelord” via the Temporal Dynamics of Involuntary Celebrification and graduate student at MIT Lilly Chin Lilly Chin discusses radical reciprocity and how to handle becoming a meme on a new Digital Void Podcast.

Stream, support, and subscribe 🎶
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-42-lilly-chin

01/09/2021

🎉 We're thrilled to announce our return to Caveat NYC for The Meme in the Moment: Make It Spoopy.

🎃 A Halloween meme festival and costume party featuring Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick, NBC internet culture reporter Kalhan Rosenblatt, The Verge's internet and politics reporter Makena Kelly, Insider editor Rachel E. Greenspan, digital culture writer Moises Mendez II, and memeticist Dr. Jamie Cohen.

🗓 Wednesday, October 27, at 7:00 PM ET.

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available:
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-the-meme-in-the-moment-festival-make-it-spoopy-10-27-2021

From the fun and quirky to the hidden messages contained within: Are we influencing memes, or are they influencing us?

25/08/2021

Founder of the Meme Studies Research Network and doctoral researcher in sociology Idil Galip explains how memes are generational artifacts and the danger of assuming people share memes in good faith on a new Digital Void Podcast.

🎶 Stream now:
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-41-idil-galip

18/08/2021

We're grateful for Caveat NYC, all of the speakers who participated, and everyone who helped make The Meme in the Moment so special! 🎉

Thank you all for a special night. We're just getting started.

📸 Jake Gold Productions

14/08/2021

🎟 Only a few tickets remain for The Meme in The Moment THIS Tuesday, August 17, at Caveat!

Join Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick, NBC's Kalhan Rosenblatt, Vox's Rebecca Jennings, memetricist Dr. Jamie Cohen, strategist and writer Jennifer Chang, cultural strategist and researcher Dr. Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel, and Host Matt Klein for New York City's first annual festival of memes 🎉

https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-the-meme-in-the-moment-festival-8-17-2021

From the fun and quirky to the hidden messages contained within: Are we influencing memes, or are they influencing us?

09/08/2021

💥 Author of "TikTok Boom" and journalist Chris Stokel-Walker explores the strategy behind TikTok’s explosive rise in the west, the differences between Silicon Valley and Chinese technology, and how the features of TikTok are designed to mirror people’s performances back onto themselves, allowing them to feel like they are part of a community.

Stream and subscribe now 🎶
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-40-chris-stokel-walker-tiktok-boom

04/08/2021

🎉 New York City's first-ever Festival of Memes comes to Caveat on Tuesday, August 17!

Pepe the Frog. Doge. Wojaks. Memestonks. Memes have taken center stage in the world — but are we influencing memes, or are they influencing us?

🎊 The Meme in the Moment is a festival of memes with the internet’s most critical, fun, and engaging meme thinkers.

We’re bringing together academics, journalists, and speakers to help us understand how memes influence our daily lives, how memes travel from the internet into physical spaces, how we can speak about them in our daily lives, and how we can strengthen our cultural immune response to memes at a moment where memes are central to discourse.

🎙 Featuring: Garbage Day's Ryan Broderick, NBC's Kalhan Rosenblatt, Vox's Rebecca Jennings, memetricist Dr. Jamie Cohen, strategist and writer Jennifer Chang, cultural strategist and researcher Dr. Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel. Hosted by Matt Klein.

🎟 Tickets and livestream now available 👇
https://www.caveat.nyc/event/digital-void-the-meme-in-the-moment-festival-8-17-2021

From the fun and quirky to the hidden messages contained within: Are we influencing memes, or are they influencing us?

12/07/2021

Garrison Davis, writer for Uprising: A Guide from Portland and Bellingcat and a researcher for Behind the Bastards and Worst Year Ever, explains the evolution of White Boy Summer from Chet Hanks music video to white supremacist meme.

In this episode, Davis shares the story of how White Boy Summer was discussed amongst 4Chan message board users and far-right Telegram channels and, ultimately, how the meme ended up becoming commodified.

Further, Davis explains how the vaporwave aesthetic is used by fascists and the most common aesthetics of far-right memes.

As far-right groups attempt to incite violence and organize in-person rallies, Davis discusses how the likenesses of mainstream figures like Tucker Carlson and Mark McCloskey are used by far-right groups to help radicalize people.

What can people do to stay vigilant of extremism, and why should we listen to experts?

Also on the episode: We hear from Caveat Booking Manager Alex Liu about why the venue is a perfect fit to host The Meme in the Moment, New York's first-ever festival of memes 🎉

Stream, share, and subscribe now 🎶
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-39-garrison-davis-on-white-boy-summer

24/06/2021

PhD Candidate in Cultural Analysis & Theory, artist, educator, and founder of VITAL THOUGHT, Emily Gillcrist, shows us how the 2008 recession led to universities devaluing the humanities — and how Vital Thought is working to make the critical humanities accessible to everyone.

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https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-38-emily-gillcrist-vital-thought

22/03/2021

Jamie and Josh explore Tucker Carlson's targeted harassment campaign against Taylor Lorenz and his cycle of creating mainstream boogeymen, a brief history of digital culture journalism and why it's essential, and leveling power so we can all negotiate meaning, together.

Stream and subscribe now 🎶
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-32-holding-tuckers-harassment-machine-to-account

15/03/2021

Artist, curator, and author of Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell explores the relationship between gender, technology, and identity, finding liberation through the glitch, the complex history of virality, and her forthcoming book, Black Meme on a new .

Stream and subscribe now 🎶
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/ep-31-legacy-russell-glitch-feminism

Artist, curator, and author of Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell explores the relationship between gender, technology, and identity, finding liberation through the glitch, the complex history of virality, and her forthcoming book, Black Meme.

10/03/2021

"They have to be — and I don't want to use this word — but fully indoctrinated into the culture unless everything is gibberish." - Matt Klein explains his call for a Rosetta Stone for Generation Z on a new .

Stream and subscribe now 🎶
https://www.digitalvoid.media/podcast/matt-klein-memes-and-meta-trends