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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jill Walker Rettberg

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Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures | MIT World - 0 views

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    Tom Pettitt's brief talk explaining the Gutenberg Parenthesis is available as a video from the keynote at Media in Transition conference in 2007 at MIT. Pettitt starts speaking around 36:50 minutes in. You may be interested in the other speakers too.
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Remixing Shakespeare | MIT World - 0 views

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    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.
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Remix Theory » Remix Defined - 0 views

  • 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)
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    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
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Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age - 0 views

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    An "exhibition" by Stay Free magazine with a lot of examples of remixed artworks that are, largely, illegal. Check out for good examples.
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About | Remixes, Mashups and Covers @ Remix.vg - 0 views

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    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.
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freesound :: home page - 0 views

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    The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.
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ccMixter - Welcome to ccMixter - 0 views

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    ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
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The Anxiety of Influence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Harold Bloom argued in his book by this titled that truly great poets wrote original poetry unfettered by the influence of other poets - whereas regular poets could not escape being influenced by others. Does remix culture reject originality altogether?
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Lunatica Desnuda: The Many Incarnations of the Mona Lisa - From Dali to Banksy - 0 views

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the most familiar paintings in the world, and of course, many artists have made their own versions of it. This blog post collects a couple of dozen examples, including Duchamp's famous one.
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    Lots of examples of remixed Mona Lisas.
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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: "Why So Socialist?": Unmasking the Joker - 0 views

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    Essay by PhD student Whitney Phillips on the origins and meanings and interpretations of an image of Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker, with the word "Socialism" below it. Shows a number of variants of the photoshopped image, along with other mashups of Obama and popular culture images.
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