Word Definition:
meme
[meem]
–noun
a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manneranalogous to the biological transmission of genes.
Origin:
1976; < Gk mīmeîsthai to imitate, copy; coined by R. Dawkins,Brit. biologist
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| meme (miːm) |
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an idea or element of social behaviour passed on throughgenerations in a culture, esp by imitation |
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| [C20: possibly from mimic , on the model of gene ] |
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Word Origin & History
meme
1976, introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in ”TheSelfish Gene” (1976), coined by him from Gk. sources, e.g.mimeisthai ”to imitate,” and intended to echo gene .
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Computing Dictionary
meme definition
philosophy
/meem/ [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins’s term for anidea considered as a replicator, especially with the connotation thatmemes parasitise people into propagating them much as virusesdo.
Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example,misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a newidea involving elements of each parent idea.
The term is used especially in the phrase ”meme complex”denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form anorganised belief system, such as a religion. However, ”meme” isoften misused to mean ”meme complex”.
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans(and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) culturalevolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become moreimportant than biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits.Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons
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Title: Spiral Connection
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Ginette DeNault is a third-generation Albertan born and raised in Calgary where she currently resides with her husband and two children.
DeNault works with ease in many mediums but is most intrigued by acrylic paints and soft pastels in their many combinations. Her visions range from melancholic to whimsical revealing subtle social truths that lie at the root of all daily life.
DeNault obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Calgary in 1993.
DeNault’s work proposes to engage the viewer into a state of seeing the world one way while providing hidden cues that trigger the mind into seeing the complement to that which is outwardly represented. Extracted from the minds of the viewer are the memories or observations when their matter (mind) mingles with matter (artwork). The images created for the viewer having now entered into the physical realm of the mind the previous qualities of the work vanish and the hidden cues fill the contents of the memory or experience therein the painting.
Like a magician she creates an illusion that has the viewer believing in virtual realities while providing a starting point that is in the material realm of reality, which is familiar to all people. The realities that she layers into her works are ones that seek to address themes that explore the eternal conflicts in the human condition, like those between men and women, self and society, parent and child, sibling and sibling, friend and friend.
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