Remix Culture

Resources for remix culture collected by students in a Remix Culture Seminar in Amsterdam.

This link might be interesting for Pavel and Kim. It's about the viralvideoaward 2009! I have watched some of the videos and I actually found some that are political videos for example: du bist terrorist... (but it's not a remix)

Comprehensive list of videos, images, sounds, music and texts that you can legally reuse. Great resource!

I like that he turned their own ad against them as it were...

A link that allows me to download video from youtube. Still make sure downloading and use of video is not in violation of copyrigth.

Great! I have been looking for that during all the week!

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)

Blog which does nothing but post examples of political remix videos, with useful commentary and links. A gem if you're interested in this genre!

A great fiction video about the advantages of our new share and digital culture

This is the article that introduces the concept "meme", and required reading for Thursday's Remix Culture class.

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.

Innovations that drastically change/limit/replace the use of one technology/medium, much due to its offer of price reduction and new usability. Such innovations are named Disruptive Technologies and the term was coined by Clayton M. Christensen in his 1995 article Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave

Donna Haraway's referenced manifest describing the hybrid between man and machine, the Cyborg and uses this metaphor to discuss gender in terms of cultural constructions, (dis)connection to the body and identiy.

Scholarly article analysing three political video mashups: "When the viral video "Vote Different" broke into the mainstream media in March 2007, the political video mashup became a notable media phenomenon. User-generated mashups threatened to cut through the U.S. news clutter that typically shapes election discourse. In this paper, political video mashups are examined as allegories of citizen empowerment during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Political video mashups can act as tools of political advocacy, forms of political protest, and modes of political commentary. Finally, though they are already being co-opted by mainstream political campaigns, the paper addresses the potential of mashups to re-interpret political messages in ways that may encourage the active re-framing of political issues among twenty-first century citizens."

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!

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.

Video challenge including ten videos on the theme "What is Remix Culture?"