## Meme Art Contest

Introduction to the Meme Art Contest

by

Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]>

## Art is Meme

"In 1936 Walker Evans photographed the Burroughs, a family of
sharecroppers in Depression era Alabama. In 1979 in Sherrie Levine
rephotographed Walker Evans' photographs from the exhibition catalog
"First and Last." In 2001 Michael Mandiberg scanned these same
photographs, and created AfterWalkerEvans.com and AfterSherrieLevine.com
to facilitate their dissemination as a comment on how we come to know
information in this burgeoning digital age."
( https://www.afterwalkerevans.com/index.html )

## Meme is Art

Annna has the ability to create emojis/pictures from prompts:

       14:53:21 @__20h__ | ::black and white photo of man in suite
                             standing in front of old wooden house::
       14:59:07    annna |
    gophers://bitreich.org/I/emoji/black-and-white-photo-of-man-in-suite-standing-in-front-of-old-w.png

## Art you able to do it too?

At

       https://www.afterwalkerevans.com/imagesA.html

there are pictures that during the contest should be replicated.

Are you able to do it?

There are prizes!

## Contest Rules

Please use ircs://irc.bitreich.org/#bitreich-meme for trying out prompts
on annna to not disturb other channels.

If many prompts are done at once, things will be slower. So consider a
good prompt before sending it.

Here is some help in how to beautify prompts:

       gophers://bitreich.org/1/scm/annna/file/stable-diffusion-beautify-prompt.gph

Of course you can try it too randomly:

       ::black and white photo of man beautify::

This will run the script above but optimize randomly.

## Contest Points

The scoring for meme art is:

       Sent in proposal: 1 point
       Replication accepted: 4 points
       Useless proposal sent in for ladder manipulation: -65536 points

## Send in Proposals

Please highlight "__20h__" on IRC and send me the proposal you want to
send in for the contest.

## Hackathon and Meme Art Prizes

The prizes this year are simple and easy fibonacci sequence numbers. The
ladder is beginning with the person having the most points.

       1. 89 EUR Amazon coupon
       2. 55 EUR Amazon coupon
       3. 34 EUR Amazon coupon
       4. 21 EUR Amazon coupon
       5. 13 EUR Amazon coupon
       6.  8 EUR Amazon coupon

Points are given out until the end of brcon2024.

## Have fun!

Have fun!