Remix Culture : Center for Social Innovation (CSI) - 12 views
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there’s a war raging over what some now are calling a new art form in the emerging Web 2.0 culture—remix
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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.
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as long as the remix is significantly altered from the original—should remix be permitted by law
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“Remix is literacy in the 21st century,” Lessig said. The chief of Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society
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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;
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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.”
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Fairey rounded out the talk, citing remix as one of the early 21st century’s most popular forms of free political expression.
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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.”