Skip to main content.
Bard
  • Bard
  • Academics sub-menuAcademics

    A place to think.

    Discover Bard
    • Academics
      • Programs and Divisions
      • Structure of the Curriculum
      • Courses
      • Requirements
      • Academic Calendar
      • Faculty
      • Libraries
      • College Catalogue
      • Bard Abroad
      • Dual-Degree Programs
      • Other Study Opportunities
      • Graduate Programs
      • Early Colleges
  • Admission sub-menuAdmission

    Do you love to learn?

    Discover Bard

    Apply Now
    • Discover Bard
      • Our Students
      • Our Alumni/ae
      • Campus Tours
      • Bridge Program
      • Video Gallery
    • Applying
      • First Year
      • Transfer Students
      • Early College Transfers
      • International Students
      • Homeschooled Students
      • DACA and Undocumented
      • Bard Conservatory
      • Return to College
      • Admitted Students
      • Enroll Now!
      • New Students
      • Prospective Families
      • Familias
      • Financial Aid
      • Tuition and Payment
      • Contact Us
      • Admission Team
      • Tour Guides
      • Graduate Admission
      • Early College Admission
  • Campus Life sub-menuCampus Life
    Bard Campus Life

    Make a home in Annandale.

    • Living on Campus
      • Housing + Dining
      • Campus Resources
      • Get Involved on Campus
      • Bard Connects
      • Visiting + Transportation
      • Athletics + Recreation
      • New Students
  • Civic Engagement sub-menuCivic Engagement
    • Bard CCE The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked.

      Take action.
      Make an impact.

      Get Involved
      • Campus + Community
      • In the Classroom
      • U.S. Network
      • International Network
      • About CCE
      • Resources
      • Support
  • Newsroom sub-menuNews + Events
    Upstreaming
    • News + Events
      • Newsroom
      • Events Calendar
      • Video Gallery
      • Press Releases
      • Office of Communications
      • COVID-19 Updates
    • Special Events
      • Commencement + Reunion Weekend
      • Family + Alumni/ae Weekend
      • Fisher Center
      • Bard SummerScape
      • Bard Athletics
  • About Bard sub-menuAbout Bard

    A private college for the public good.

    Support Bard
    • About Bard College
      • Mission Statement
      • Bard History
      • Love of Learning
      • Visiting Bard
      • Employment
      • OSUN
      • Bard Abroad
      • The Bard Network
      • Montgomery Place Campus
      • Campus Tours
      • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
      • Sustainability
      • Title IX
      • HEOA Disclosures
      • Institutional Support
      • Safety and Security
      • Inside Bard
      • Alumni/ae Network
      • Family Network
      • Support Bard
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Search

Meme Lab

Meme Lab Menu
  • Meme Lab
  • Programs sub-menuAffiliated Programs
    • Written Arts
    • Film and Electronic Arts
    • Experimental Humanities
The Bard Memetics Laboratory (Bard Meme Lab)
is an interdisciplinary research group focusing on digital memes, online media, and content dissemination.

The lab provides a space for examining online culture through the lenses of the experimental humanities, film studies, cognitive science, and the visual arts. Through examining the underlying superstructure of memetic content - not just the content of the meme but its very form — the Lab engages with the online cultural landscape and produces original research and programming.

About the Meme Lab

  • Our History
    The Bard Memetics Laboratory was founded in 2019 as an interdisciplinary research group focusing on digital memes, online media, and content dissemination examined through the lens of experimental humanities, film studies, and the visual arts.
  • Our Staff
    Ed Halter, Advisor and Executive Director 
    Mitch Anzuoni, Advisor and Head of Research

    Nik Slackman, ns0385@bard.edu
    Dani Wilder: dw8340@bard.edu
    María Bernedo: mb9633@bard.edu
    Alexi Piirimae: ap7045@bard.edu
    Emmanuel Dominguez: ed5657@bard.edu
    Spencer Vazquez: sv5565@bard.edu

Events

  • Feburary 9, 2021
    Inzane Johnny come to Bard
    A talk + Q&A with the acclaimed meme creator / noise musician (Wolf Eyes)
    Register Here

    For the past two decades, experimental musician John Olson has been at the forefront of the intersection between electronic innovation and aesthetics. As Inzane Johnny, he has taken his expertise on this medium and interpreted it through the burgeoning phenomenon of memes. He has seen his own specific brand of humor, one which is serious about art but ludic about life, disseminate into a digitally ubiquitous sensibility. February 9th, John will come to speak at Bard College about how his innovative approach to technological art has shaped our culture at large. This inaugural event is going to kick off our season of artists and presenters that make us reconsider the meme format as a discursive site.
  • November 23, 2020
    Screening of Feels Good Man
     
    Featuring a Q+A with director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini

Our Publication

CONTENT: A Memetics Research Journal

As part of the Bard Meme Lab’s inquiries into digital culture, we are seeking inventive submissions to our new journal, CONTENT. We are looking for work that disassembles the form of the meme itself, examining not only specific instances but focusing on long term trends in how we consume and propagate ourselves online. What makes meme formats so durable (or not)? When does something become “cringe”? How have our habits of media intake changed? Research papers, interviews, essays, OC, and more unconventional forms are all accepted. 
Please email any submissions or questions to memelab@bard.edu

Projects

Projects

This Wojak Does Not Exist

ML-powered Wojak generator trained on a bespoke Meme Lab data set 

thiswojakdoesnotexist.com >

Bard College
Campus Road, PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000
Phone: 800-BARDCOL
Admission Phone: 845-758-7472
Admission E-mail: admission@bard.edu
©2020 Bard College
Follow Us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Follow Us on Instagram
You Tube
Information For:
Prospective Students
Current Employees
Alumni/ae 
Families
Quick Links
Employment
Travel to Bard
Site Search
Support Bard