The Fuse Factory Juried Exhibition 2019: TechnoMEME Ⅱ

This international juried exhibition has featured works created with technology-based new media, electronic, and digital tools at the Cultural Arts Center, Columbus Ohio from November 1st to December 7th 2019.

TechnoMEME is the theme of Fuse Factory Annual Exhibitions (FFE) in 2018 and 2019. Following the successful invitational exhibition last year, FFE 2019 continually searches for other artists’ creative interpretations of this theme. Since the concept of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ ‘Meme’, which considered cultural transmissions and imitations as phenomena of self-replication for being an effective propagator of genes according to his book The Selfish Gene (1976), the ambiguous and metaphorical idea from its theoretical beginning has unintentionally morphed into new viral phenomena, such as the trend of the ‘Internet meme’ within online media culture. For this year’s theme, the Fuse Factory looks back at Dawkins’ original term and reviews the usefulness of a meme’s imitation, transmission, retention, and mutation that can be applied and utilized in contemporary art, technology, and culture.