In March 2021, the Students’ City Cultural Center announced the contest for the student-made meme, for all who wanted to share their funny ideas and use the meme to show aspects of students’ lives, challenges, and situations that all youth encounter during their studies. The selection committee reviewed the received memes and decided which of the works will be included in the exhibition in a form of stickers, postcards, and video projections. The selection committee was made up of administrators of Internet pages with meme content: Dživdžan zbori, Ženska posla i Tvoj dečko.
The exhibition titled “STUDENTS’ MEME” was held as part of the Students’ Day which is in Serbia observed on 4th April. The stickers and postcards with printed memes were put at the audience’s disposal to make settings of their choice on exhibiting panels in front of the SCCC Library and take their favourite memes with them if they wanted.
The accompanying programme of the STUDENTS’ MEME event also included a digital photo presentation of a photographs collection themed around the lives of students in the Students’ City, gathered within the international project THEY: LIVE, dealing with aspects of students’ lives in campuses since the end of WWII until today, in four cities: Belgrade, Podgorica, Madrid, Rijeka and Zagreb.
As a continuation of the contest for students’ memes and an exhibition thereof, focused on student-made memes, there was also a talk about different aspects of the meme culture, its genesis, media specificity and omnipresence. The conversation was held between Luka Bešlagić, the assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications, and Filip Otović Višnjić, and moderated by Marina Zec.
“Students’ Meme” Organizational team SCCC
(Jovana Jankov, Maida Gruden, Andrija Stojanović)