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KQED Do Now this week looked at the popularity of memes and LOL Cats and asked whether they are art or not. It was an excellent conversation thanks to the great members of the KQED Do Now advisory board and all of their students. People also shared their favorites and even created new ones, some that have a historical message based on what they are learning in their social studies courses. Look at some the great comments below.
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Do you think creative, funny internet memes could be considered artwork? If not, how you would categorize them? Describe one of your favorites and/or send us a link to it.
All over the internet, "People are creating images and sharing them with strangers for the purpose of communicating their personal experiences." Art takes many forms, and PBS's new web video series, Idea Channel, poses an intriguing question in this recent episode about memes and art. The internet offers an opportunity to share individually-crafted punch lines and images on a global scale, but what do we call this act of creation? Art? Jokes? Procrastination fodder? Or all of the above? In contemporary art, successful works are not necessarily made by hand or even tangible—making a visual representation of an idea, whether it goes viral or not, is a creative act.
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