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so is art, that's not art, that says it's now art, still art? a confounding remix...

 A medias artist takes pictures of people taken without their consent on Google's street view and places them back where they were first taken. Is this art? Or is this misuse of private data? 

So, I guess graffiti "writers" make art and care about quality; graffiti "taggers" are just vandals who care about quantity.

This has to be one of the coolest things I have had the pleasure to read about. Talk about working with technology to develop art! Not only is the thought processes of creating this awesome but the idea behind it kind of blows my mind.

Here's how White Panda distributes their mashups. Name your price for the album. And merch available in a kickstarter fashion of spending $25 or $50 for the album and apparel/art. Very clear that their "business" is less the art of their remixes and more the experiences they make.

Book art with some color 

Just some of the interesting facets of new media art forms explored. The article explains how art is limited and unlimited by modernity. 

I really like this article. It's about a Web Remix art exhibit. The artist isn't sure how long he can keep it running since he knows he's infringing copyrights. But his statement below makes so much sense explaining how web collage is a natural derivation of what's online: ""If you see just one video on YouTube, it doesn't make sense to you," Quaranta explained. But as a collection, a thesis emerges."

While it is true that oneof the goals of the Copyright Act is to discourage infringement, it is by no means the only goal of that Act. The Constitution grants to Congress the power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." U. S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 8. We have often recognized the monopoly privileges that Congress has authorized, while "intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors by the provision of a special reward," are limited in nature and must ultimately serve the public good. For example, in Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken, 422 U.S. 151, 156 (1975), we discussed the policies underlying the 1909 Copyright Act as follows: "The limited scope of the copyright holder's statutory monopoly . . . reflects a balance of competing claims upon the public interest: Creative work is to be encouraged and rewarded, but private motivation must ultimately serve the cause of promoting broad public availability of literature, music, and the other arts. The immediate effect of our copyright law is to secure a fair return for an `author's' creative labor. But the ultimate aim is, by this incentive, to stimulate artistic creativity for the general public good." (Footnotes omitted.) We reiterated this theme in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349-350 (1991), where we said: "The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but `[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work." (Citations omitted.) Because copyright law ultimately serves the purpose of enriching the general public through access to creative works, it is peculiarly important that the boundaries of copyrigh

What a remix! Maybe Cecelia "the vandal" Gimenez should copyright her artwork? Elias Garcia Martinez can't sue her.. (Also, check out the exclusive preview of her upcoming projects).

Morley, my favorite street artist, uses his art to make statements for and toward our generation. His inspirational words are often coupled with an image of himself writing, making for a very self aware statement.

Information on "Decollage"--the opposite of collage. Instead of compiling things, it is an art form done by "taking away." 

Some examples of "remixing" someone else's art by Van Gogh

Remix Contest for Dance Songs with prize money

That's why the copyright laws DO NOT encourage the growth of arts and sciences! :(

An artist talks about growing up in a culture of social media.

"Filmmakers, fans, activists, artists, and media makers have been reediting television, movies, and news media for critical and political purposes since almost the very beginning of moving pictures. Over the past century, this subversive form of populist remixing has been called many things, including appropriation art, détournement, media jamming, found footage, avant-garde film, television hacking, telejusting, political remix, scratch video, vidding, outsider art, antiart, and even cultural terrorism."

These videos are really cool and definitely worth checking out. The early examples, going back to 1941, show the constant desire of people to remix before the technology really caught up.

My tumblr account. Not exactly intended as a work of art, but can been seen as an example of one of the ways I form an identity in the modern age through the collaboration of other's art available to me in the new delivery systems.