meme™ - Exploring Experimental Media

Description

meme™—media experimental ensemble™—is a live performance group created and directed by Joey Bargsten of FAU's School of Communications and Multimedia Studies. Comprised of students from Interactive Multimedia and New Media Narrative courses taught by Prof. Bargsten,  meme™ explores new and emerging expressive forms created by combining sound, image, and narrative elements, using contemporary digital technology and a variety of performance techniques. This iTunesU course is an archive of projects and media created by the ensemble, including EarFilms™—audio soundtracks with micro-narratives that can accompany your 'life-as-cinema'— and videojams, processed video with ambient and rhythmic sonic backgrounds. Each of these projects is intentionally missing something (such as the visual component in the EarFilms™ or foreground narratives in the videojams) so the students can supply the missing elements during live performance. meme™ is an ongoing, evolving project, so please explore the above links to find out more about the ensemble, as well as the technology and aesthetics of experimental media performance.