there’s a war raging over what some now are calling a new art form in the emerging Web 2.0 culture—remix
remix is collage, a recombination of existing, reference images or music and video clips from popular digital culture, elements of which are mashed up into something new.
If digital literacy includes remixing, then the skills of citation and attribution are more important than ever.
failing to legally protect remixes as original forms of art and expression “will make pirates of our children...We cannot kill this form of expression;
Johnson, author of The Invention of Air, a new book about the history of information flows in American and British society, said remix has “deep roots in the Age of Enlightenment and among America’s Founding Fathers.”
Remix is not new... but it is easier and more accessible than ever. A smartphone alone is a remix machine capable of remixing text, audio, video, images and more. Then with a click you can publish your remix to the world from anywhere!
Where do we think innovation and creativity come from
Fairey rounded out the talk, citing remix as one of the early 21st century’s most popular forms of free political expression.
Remix is all about making references; references are how you establish a point of view in popular culture, and they are crucial to my work as an artist.”
This is what we as educators are all about...
We challenge students to make connections, identify themes, clarify or argue a point of view. We push them to remix everyday.
Are we challenging them to respect the ideas they build their learning upon?