Week 8: Art and the Internet

March 23

Please email a meme for discussion by 9am.

Aria Dean, “Poor Meme, Rich Meme” (2016)

Stephen Best, Mia You, and Damon Ross Young, “Meme Aesthetics,” Representations (2024)

Genevieve Yue, “Chatbodies” Representations (2024)


March 25

Browse internet artists/projects:

Please add (at least) one internet art project (past or present) you would like to discuss to our class Are.na channel. 

Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter, “Hard Reboot: An Introduction to Mass Effect” (2015) (for background context on early internet art)

Martine Syms, “Black Vernacular: Reading New Media” (2015)

Tess McNulty, “What’s on Top of TikTok?” Public Books (2023)

Dean Kissick, “The Vulgar Image,” Spike Magazine (2025)

Optional: Thom Waite, “Between slop and enshittification, 2025 saw the internet implode,” Dazed (2025)









Maya on the Internet