Yue Wang 

My previous experience in visual communication design taught me basic design skills and thinking. Besides, the courses I took from other disciplines, I also have strengthened my interest in social and cultural topics, especially subculture and crime. Now, I am exploring ways to establish more connections between my work and the audience.

In Defense of the Poor Image

As Hito Steyerl mentioned in her article, the poor image is "apart from resolution and exchange value, one might imagine another form of value defined by velocity, intensity, and spread". The first thing that came to my mind was the meme, which has poor resolution and circulates extremely fast and wildly.

While researching in-depth, I found that most people don't like to use the meme made from their own image. However, It is common to use the meme using other people's images, some of whom are not celebrities. We lose the awareness of others privacy and image in the digital world. Everyone could be captured in meme inadvertently.

Therefore, I decided to make a trap. A meme gallery that invites the audiences to share the meme they created. However, once they confirm to submit the memes, the image in memes will be replaced by the audiences' photo.

Meme, Poor Image, Privacy