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Jill Walker Rettberg

Remix Theory » Remix Defined - 0 views

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essay remix history definition

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  • three types of remixes. The first remix is extended, that is a longer version of the original song containing long instrumental sections making it more mixable for the club DJ
  • The second remix is selective; it consists of adding or subtracting material from the original song
  • The third remix is reflexive; it allegorizes and extends the aesthetic of sampling, where the remixed version challenges the aura of the original and claims autonomy even when it carries the name of the original; material is added or deleted, but the original tracks are largely left intact to be recognizable
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  • An example from art history in which key codes of the Selective Remix are at play is Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917)
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 18 Aug 09
     
    Essay providing one way of defining remix by Eduardo Navas: "the activity of taking samples from pre-existing materials to combine them into new forms according to personal taste." Includes history of music remixes, discusses different kinds of remix
Jill Walker Rettberg

Remix Theory » Archivio » WHAT COMES AFTER REMIX? by Lev Manovich - 0 views

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remix definition history art Manovich

shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • officially accepted
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      Hm, that doesn't seem to fit with Lessig and others' arguments about the music industry suing people who use remix?
  • “appropriation” never completely left its original art world context where it was coined.
  • I think that “remixing” is a better term anyway because it suggests a systematic re-working of a source, the meaning which “appropriation” does not have
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  • The other older term commonly used across media is “quoting” but I see it as describing a very different logic than remixing. If remixing implies systematically rearranging the whole text, quoting refers inserting some fragments from old text(s) into the new one.
  • “montage” and “collage”
  • three differences.
  • we can say that if modernist collage always involved a “clash” of element, electronic and software collage also allows for “blend.
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      This is really interesting!! Consider in relation to our discussions about film theory and editing - Kuleshov, Eisenstein and more.
  • database of culture
  • Remixing originally had a precise and a narrow meaning that gradually became diffused
  • If post-modernism defined 1980s, remix definitely dominates 2000s
  • Wired magazine devoted its July 2005 issue to the theme Remix Planet.
  • In his book DJ Culture Ulf Poschardt singles out different stages in the evolution of remixing practice
  • Around the turn of the century (20tth to 21st) people started to apply the term “remix” to other media besides music: visual projects, software, literary texts
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
     
    Useful short article by Lev Manovich, who is a prominent scholar of digital culture, about the history of remix and its relationship to other related practices in art and literature (appropriation, quoting, montage, etc). Read this!
Jill Walker Rettberg

The Medium - The Hitler Meme - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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remix text subtitles parody YouTube

shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • It turns out you could play make-out music, show slow-mo clips of any two male actors interacting, throw up suggestive title cards (“a truth they couldn’t deny”) and — presto — any American blockbuster could be shown to chronicle love between two men
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      Interesting - and this is also relevant to Kurdin's trailer where she shows an example of Harry Potter as a Brokeback Mountain spoof. I also like the way in which the author of this article draws a conclusion that CROSSES all the remixes - the many similar remixes make an argument as a group, in a way?
  • what’s the larger point of the “Downfall” remixes?
  • satirists who for years have been snatching video and audio from “Downfall,” the 2004 German movie of Hitler’s demise, and doctoring it to tell a range of stories about personal travails and world politics.
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  • subtitles
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      This should be useful for Kim's project!
  • the lesson of the parodies seems to be that “Downfall” was a closeted Hitler comedy. Having seen the spoofs before seeing the movie, I find it virtually impossible now to watch the film with a straight face
  • many of the “Downfall” parodies choose not to have Ganz-as-Hitler directly ventriloquize another politician or figure of derision. Instead, as with the Malaysian parody, the spoofs often make the new speaker a disappointed supporter of a public figure.
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
     
    Interesting NYTimes article about the many creative subtitlings of the scene from Downfall (a 2004 movie about Hitler's demise) - this article is a wonderful example of how you can analyse a whole group of remixes. If this were an academic article you'd also want to include more context about this (what is remixing? what kinds of other video/subtitle remixes exist? what sort of things are scholars writing about remixes like this?) but the ANALYSIS of what the remixes means would be perfect. I especially like how the author makes interpretations across the whole group - see some of my annotations/comments.
Jill Walker Rettberg

About | Remixes, Mashups and Covers @ Remix.vg - 0 views

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remix mashups examples

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 15 Aug 09
     
    Welcome to Remix.vg - one of the internet's very best go-to sources for Remixes, Mashups and Covers to which anyone and everyone can submit their work, or the work of others to be played and enjoyed by all.
Jill Walker Rettberg

Political Remix Video - The New Activism | Youth Radio - 0 views

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remix politics political parody

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 27 Aug 09
     
    Short article about political remix videos - with an example at the end which is a pretty clever remix of So You Think You Can Dance with the US presidential campaigns (Obama and McCain debating). Great video.
Elisabeth Nesheim

RiP: A Remix Manifesto - 0 views

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remix culture copyright manifest

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 25 Aug 09
     
    RiP: A remix manifesto is a documentary film about copyright and remix culture.
  • Michal Pavlinsky on 26 Aug 09
     
    amazing video, amazing guy this girl talk, love his works
Elisabeth Nesheim

Remix America | Welcome to Remix America - 0 views

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political remix editor citizen journalism commentary

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 17 Sep 09
     
    Remix America is a nonpartisan, nonprofit in-browser editing tool that allows citizens around the country to remix the great words and speeches of American History with the hot button issues of today
Elisabeth Nesheim

iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » What's the Inverse of Remixing?... - 1 views

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unmixing remix references hypertext lessig

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 11 Oct 09
     
    Dave Wiley introduces the notion of unmixing, as opposed to remixing. He states that since remixing includes a recontruction of meaning (references), and introduction of new references to sections of text, using a hypertext script would constitute something else, namely a unmix. (Hmmm)
Jill Walker Rettberg

reuse (re)create remix - 3 views

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remix

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Nov 09
     
    Resources for remix culture collected by students in a Remix Culture Seminar in Amsterdam.
Sissel Lenvik

Total Recut Contest Results - The Winners! - 0 views

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Remix videos Lessig Jenkins challenge

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  • Congratulations to all of our winners! After a gruelling public vote and an even more intense celebrity judging round, the winners of the 2008 Total Recut Video Remix Challenge have finally been determined.
    • Sissel Lenvik
      Sissel Lenvik on 01 Sep 09
       
      Video challenge "What is Remix Culture?". Including alot of interesting movies.
  • Sissel Lenvik on 01 Sep 09
     
    Video challenge including ten videos on the theme "What is Remix Culture?"
Elisabeth Nesheim

remix aesthetics, a short primer on taxonomies of re-intrepreted musics - 0 views

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remix taxonomy extension translation mashup abstraction

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 31 Aug 09
     
    Reflections from the US based Zachary Mccune, a BA-student of Modern Culture and Media at the Brown University who looks into the taxonomy of remix
Snider d

Markov Chains Text Remix - 0 views

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  • Snider d on 20 Aug 09
     
    Algorithmic remixing of text
  • Snider d on 20 Aug 09
     
    Algorithmic remixing of text at Language is a Virus
Thais B.

Total Recut Educational Recuts - 0 views

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remix culture video political

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  • Thais B. on 20 Aug 09
     
    A great remix culture video: Appropriation & Culture Jamming. titalrecut.com is a web page full of great remix culture videos about political issues, education, advertising and so on.
ziska 04

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political remix

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  • ziska 04 on 26 Sep 09
     
    When you press the button: read my lips on the right hand side, you can watch a series of remixed videos. Nr. 1 is the Bush-Blair love song. Nr. 2 is Silvio Berlusconi singing: Just a giggolo... all of them are political remixes. Lessig mentions the maker of those videos in his book.
Thais B.

Remix Culture: (They say) Fair Use is Your Friend (Lessig Blog) - 0 views

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remix culture fair use Lessig

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  • Thais B. on 30 Aug 09
     
    Great video about Remix Culture and the fair use that I found at Lessig blog.
Jill Walker Rettberg

Remixing Shakespeare | MIT World - 0 views

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remix Shakespeare literature theatre

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 19 Aug 09
     
    A video of a lecture given by Diana Henderson and Peter Donaldson at MIT about how Shakespeare's plays were changed, "remixed" and altered both historically and how this is happening as the plays are interpreted today.
Cecilie wIan

Culture jamming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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remix culture jamming

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  • Cecilie wIan on 08 Sep 09
     
    Remixes is often this.
  • Cecilie wIan on 08 Sep 09
     
    This relates to remix how?
Jill Walker Rettberg

What is an Author? - Mark Tribe - Brown University Wiki - 0 views

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  • in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the 'author function:' while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer- it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor - it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer - but not an author. The author function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      Neva noted in her reading reflections post on this that this is important for our understanding of remix culture and anonymous or collaborative art - do mashups and remix culture have an author function?
  • In our culture, how does one characterize a discourse containing the author function?
  • four different characteristics.
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  • First of all, discourses are objects of appropriation.
  • authors became subject to punishment
  • discourse was not originally a product, a thing, a kind of goods; it was essentially an act
  • The author function does not affect all discourses in a universal and constant way, however. This is its second characteristic
  • it has not always been the same types of texts which have required attribution to an author
  • There was a time when the texts that we today call 'literary' (narratives, stories, epics, tragedies, comedies) were accepted, put into circulation, and valorized without any question about the identity of their author; their anonymity caused no difficulties since their ancientness, whether real or imagined, was regarded as a sufficient guarantee of their status
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      An alternative to the author function: ancientness.
  • Scientific discourses began to be received for themselves, in the anonymity of an established or always re-demonstrable truth; their membership in a systematic ensemble, and not the reference to the individual who produced them, stood as their guarantee
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      Another alternative to the author function: - re-demonstrable truth (as in science) - membership in a system (e.g. professor at X University)
  • literary discourses came to be accepted only when endowed with the author function
  • literary anonymity is not tolerable
  • The third characteristic of this author function is that it does not develop spontaneously as the attribution of a discourse to an individual.
  • It is, rather, the result of a complex operation which constructs a certain rational being that we call 'author'.
  • directly derived from the manner in which Christian tradition authenticated (or rejected) the texts at its disposal
  • trying to prove the value of a text by its author's saintliness
  • the author is therefore defined as a constant level of value
  • the author is thus defined as a field of conceptual or theoretical coherence
  • the author is here conceived as a stylistic unity
  • the author is here seen as a historical figure at the crossroads of a certain number of events)
  • The author is also the principle of a certain unity of writing
  • The author also serves to neutralize the contradictions that may emerge in a series of texts
  • signs referring to the author. These signs, well known to grammarians, are personal pronouns, adverbs of time and place, and verb conjugation. Such elements do not play the same role in discourses provided with the author function as in those lacking it
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      Do we see such signs in remix?
  • Everyone knows that, in a novel narrated in the first person, neither the first-person pronoun nor the present indicative refers exactly either to the writer or to the moment in which he writes, but rather to an alter ego whose distance from the author varies, often changing in the course of the work. It would be just as wrong to equate the author with the real writer as to equate him with the fictitious speaker; the author function is carried out and operates in the scission itself, in this division and this distance.
  • all discourses endowed with the author function do possess this plurality of self.
  • (1) the author function is linked to the juridical and institutional system that compasses, determines, and articulates the universe of discourses; (2) it does not affect all discourses in the same way at all times and in all types of civilization; (3) it is not defined by the spontaneous attribution of a discourse to its producer, but rather by a series of specific and complex operations; (4) it does not refer purely and simply to a real individual, since it can give rise simultaneously to several selves, to several subjects - positions that can be occupied by different classes of individuals.
  • in the sphere of discourse one can be the author of much more than a book - one can be the author of a theory, tradition, or discipline in which other books and authors will in their turn find a place
  • transdiscursive
  • 'founders of discursivity
  • They have produced something else: the possibilities and the rules for the formation of other texts.
  • The relationship (or non-relationship) with an author and the different forms this relationship takes, constitute - in a quite visible manner - one of these discursive properties.
  • First, there are theoretical reasons. On the one hand, an analysis in the direction that I have outlined might provide for an approach to a typology of discourse.
  • an introduction to the historical analysis of discourse
  • modes existence
  • re-examine the privileges of the subject
  • Second, there are reasons dealing with the 'ideological' status of the author
  • How can one reduce the great peril, the great danger with which fiction threatens our world? The answer is: one can reduce it with the author. The author allows a limitation of the cancerous and dangerous proliferation of significations within a world where one is thrifty not only with one's resources and riches, but also with one's discourses and their significations. The author is the principle of thrift in the proliferation of meaning.
  • the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author does not precede the works; he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and re-composition of fiction
  • It would be pure romanticism, however, to imagine a culture in which the fictive would operate in an absolutely free state, in which fiction would be put at the disposal of everyone and would develop without passing through something like a necessary or constraining figure
  • I think that, as our society changes, at the very moment when it is in the process of changing, the author function will disappear, and in such a manner that fiction and its polysemous texts will once again function according to another mode, but still with a system of constraint -one which will no longer be the author, but which will have to be determined or, perhaps, experienced.
  • We would no longer hear the questions that have been rehashed for so long: Who really spoke? Is it really he and not someone else? With what authenticity or originality? And what part of his deepest self did he express in his discourse?
  • What are the modes of existence this discourse? Where has it been used, how can it circulate, and who can appropriate it for himself? What are the places in it where there is room for possible subjects? Who can assume these various subject functions? And behind all these questions, we would hear hardly anything but the stirring of an indifference: What difference does it make who is speaking?
Elisabeth Nesheim

YouTube - SV mash-up - 0 views

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poltical remix SV norwgian mash-up

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 14 Sep 09
     
    Political remix, mash-up with the Norwegian political party SV
ziska 04

YouTube - Wise Guys - Alle meine Entchen - Tekkno Remix - 0 views

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  • ziska 04 on 22 Aug 09
     
    Wise Guys is a German band, in this video they are remixing childrens songs...
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