This panel takes internet humor seriously. Brain rot content and AI slop produce increasingly obscure forms of humor through fragmentation, affect, and community-building. How does this shift reshape the online experience and the ways we engage with it?

Bringing together Isabel Millar, Idil Galip, Franziska von Guten, and Sophie Publig, the panel gathers perspectives from philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, meme research, and artistic practice to examine what happens to collectivity under these conditions. Attending to the unhinged textures of networked content, brain rot is approached as an affective formation through which a collective imaginary takes shape in mutation. It encodes fantasies, anxieties, and desires shaped within algorithmic environments where individual and shared experience continuously fold into each other.

The panel asks how these dynamics reorganize collective experience, what kinds of shared sensibility emerge through recursive and excessive content, and how networked subjects inhabit forms of togetherness that feel simultaneously intimate and diffused.


Lectures by Idil Galip, Franziska von Guten and Sophie Publig with a concluding discussion
Keynote by Isabel Millar

Adresse
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Arsenal Objekt 19A
1030 Vienna

No participant limit, free admission.