Join us from 11:00 to 12:30 on March 9th for the programme Trends, Tactics and Aesthetics: the TikTok Limbo as part of our In-Between Media: Hybrid Tactics in The Crisis Era conference.
These presentations, followed by a round-table discussion will be held at Spui25 in Amsterdam as well as online.
Do you find yourself in TikTok limbo? Ever since the video-sharing app popped up in 2016, TikTok has become an omnipresent media whose discursive content is having impacts well beyond the containment of the platform. Following its predecessors Vine and Musical.ly, TikTok prioritizes short-format videos, self-referential humour, and user duetting.
In the absurdity and vastness of our digital existence, TikTok is the place where niche internet cultures blend with the mainstream through an uninterrupted outpour of microtrends. As addictive as it is endless, the draw of the TikTok algorithm has us scrolling away the days.
But how is TikTok becoming more than a pastime distraction? What is the amplifying power of this platform within wider public discourse?
That is the question we will come to answer in the programme: Trends, Tactics and Aesthetics: the TikTok Limbo. Here film & media scholar Tina Kendall, art historian Agnieszka Wodzińska and AI & media researcher, Jordi Viader Guerrero will come together for a discussion on the nature of TikTok as a tactical medium. The conversation will be moderated by New Media Researcher Dunja Nešović. We hope to see either your irl or digitized self join us in this discussion and reflect upon our future online practices.
Sign up to Trends, Tactics and Aesthetics: the TikTok Limbo through this link.
Full program of the conference available here.
Timetable:
- 11:00 – Bored in the (Hybrid) House: TikTok as Ludotopia in a Time of Crisis, Tina Kendall
- 11:10 – Dead and Kicking: TikTok and Subculture, Agnieszka Wodzińska
- 11:20 – Infinite Scroll as a Symbolic Form, Jordi Viader Guerrero
- 11:30 – Round table talk with Tina Kendall, Agnieszka Wodzińska, Jordi Viader Guerrero, moderated by Dunja Nešović.
