Memefest
The online digital folklore and humour festival
Memes have become part of our everyday life, transforming the way we relate with each other and comment in public. Memefest is a celebration of this free, popular and uncontrollable form of communication, where leading figures in digital humour and creation reflect on how we laugh and communicate today.
Samantha Hudson and Christo Casas
I, meme
The artist Samantha Hudson talks about her experience as a creator of humorous and political content on social media, interviewed by the journalist and anthropologist Christo Casas.
El cos de la veritat
Mar Vallverdú and Rita Rakosnik
The photos we publish, the references we have and the aesthetic canons imposed on us determine not only the way we project ourselves online, but also our physical presence. Experts in digital culture and trends Mar Vallverdú and Rita Rakosnik talk to us about the impact of living inside, ...
History, Horoscopes and Other Truths
Charcastrology and PutoMikel
What is the truth, and what role does it play in social media today? An open debate between PutoMikel, Doctor of Archaeology and pop populariser who uses memes and humour to explain historical facts, and Charcastrology, an astrologer who defines herself as an internet witch. Between History ...
The End of Internet
Venga Monjas
The palpitating rate of the internet speeds us up and makes us uncomfortable. Not a day goes by that we don’t fantasize about closing all of our social networks and abandoning our digital lives forever. But imagine that the internet were to end: what would you do, and what would you salvage ...
The New Digital Awakening
Judit Martín
The Internet has become a breeding ground for the proliferation of lies that seem to be truths and truths that seem to be lies. Comic actress Judit Martín instruct us in the most inspiring and deluded conspiracy theories circulating in cyberspace, and help us find a convincing explanation ...
Disconnect to connect
Motivational guidance talk with #Soytuinfluenser
In this collective healing and holistic practice session, #Soytuinfluenser helps us find peace, far from mobile phone notifications. If you’re a bit of an Internet junkie, we recommend that you follow their revolutionary techniques and disconnection advice.
Crash Course in Internet apologies
Ofèlia Carbonell and Pol Andiñach
Screwed up? Your sexist and/or racist and/or classist and/or homophobic joke didn’t get the likes you expected and now you’re afraid you’ll get kicked out of the WhatsApp group, padel group or the podcast project with pals? Fear not. On this course you’ll learn to formulate ...
Exposed: the joys and paradoxes of an extremely online life
Berta Prieto, Luna Ki and Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
Lots of young creators show their professional and personal lives openly, uncomplicatedly and freely on social networks. The limits between real life and fiction blur and can often make the public that follows these life stories uncomfortable. The constant exposure of these creators to the ...
There is love on the Internet, and we love the Internet
Estela Ortiz and Rita Roig
They say that the Internet has drained relationships of love and that it’s a hostile, shallow, dangerous place. Faced with the menaces of ghosting, catfishing and submarining, we prefer to focus on the love that’s going down in the digital world, where it’s possible to create ...
Alba Lafarga and Janira Planes
Hook, line and sinker!
The Internet is a place full of complex and unregulated relationships between creators, audiences and corporations. We propose a journey through the dysfunctional aspects of the “far west” of the new creative industry – self-exploitation, political toxicity, waves of hate, ...
Marc Sarrats and Ainhoa Marzol
COVID Catharsis
We want this first performance to be a collective story about the pandemic, as seen through the memes and viral content that are already part of our imaginary. That’s why we’re bringing in the comedian Marc Sarrats to run through the memes that helped us get through the pandemic. ...
Chenta Tsai (Putochinomaricón) and Proyecto UNA
Reactionary Internet vs Bright Internet
We’ve seen how the more conservative sectors use memes, communication strategies and pop symbols for the effective mass dissemination of their ideology. When anyone speaks out against these discourses, they call them “namby-pambies” and defend their own “political incorrectness”. ...
Kike García and Laura Tabarés
What’s so funny? Memes and weird Internet
The new comedy is designed not just to make people laugh, but to disconcert and cause discomfort. Generation Z, with its mobiles and TikToks, uses a form of humour that is often incomprehensible to older people. What are young people laughing at? When did millennial humour get so absurd? Kike ...
Meme Battle 2019
Memefest 2019
Presented by Charlie Pee, the Meme Battle puts Memefest participants to the test, pitting them against meme-related challenges. Taking part are Rocío Quillahuaman, Roberta Vázquez, Kike García, Raquel Hervás, Joel Díaz and Joan ...
SOSUN.dance and albertsanchez.es, el de Cornellà
Concert and relationship advice
In one of the best-known memes, a young man holds his girlfriend’s hand while looking out of the corner of his eye at another young woman walking past. Because memes, networks, apps, the Internet and mobiles affect relationships and the associated drama. Digital folklore, too, draws on ...
Mockudramas
Presentation Memefest 2019
Mockudramas takes the stage for the first time to share the ups and downs of his life as a video editor and producer who doesn’t quite make it as a YouTuber. He is master of ceremonies of Memefest 2019.
Rocío Quillahuaman and Roberta Vázquez
Precarious lives, no filters
In the social networks, the number of followers doesn’t always match the number of zeros in your bank account. There is an entire generation that moves naturally in the social networks, the context in which they have found work, but there is a breach between their cultural and their economic ...
Battle of the memes 2018
Directed and presented by Alba Rihe, the Battle of the memes puts to the test all the Memefest participants, who have to overcome a series of challenges related with memes. With the participation of Dolors Boatella, Felipe G.Gil, Júlia Cot, Tomàs Fuente, Noel ...
Carlo Padial
Intermittent monologue
Carlo Padial, the Memefest master of ceremonies, parodies life on the Internet and human behaviour on the social media networks. His interventions are accompanied by the screenings of audiovisual pieces and photographic compositions that he has produced himself on the meme universe.
Dolors Boatella and Felipe G. Gil
Meme it Yourself
Where are memes created and where are they going? Internet memes are digital productions which avoid traditional forms of authorship to instead bring the collective, political and interpersonal to the fore. We're going to survey the promiscuous and unclassifiable life of memes and talk about ...
Los Ganglios
Concert
The Memefest is a tribute to digital culture and the Internet, to creation from anonymity and the absence of any defined authorship, to the remixing of contents, to the speed and ephemeral success of ideas and of images, to user communities with their own codes and humoristic languages, to ugliness that attracts us and to the popular tales that are expanding thanks to networked communication.
Noel Ceballos and El Hematocrítico
Memefail: When viral humour fails
El Hematocrítico and Noel Ceballos investigate live what happens with political memes that are not funny, videos that become popular hits for the wrong reasons, actions on social media networks that end up landing their instigators in court, Twitter bombs that explode in the hands of their makers... In summary, a panoramic journey through internet fails, meme-wrecks, and the EPIC FAIL in all its splendour.
Memefest
The online digital folklore and humour festival
Memes form part of our everyday life and have transformed the way in which we relate with each other and express our opinions in public. On 3 March, we are holding a festival to defend this popular, free and uncontrollable form of communication.