remix

 

 

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about the 'remix' seminar series

 

‘Remix’ is a research seminar group organised and facilitated by Owen Gallagher, a PhD researcher at NCAD: GradCAM. The group is different from other seminar groups in that there are no physical meetings, but instead the group convenes in networked space on alternate Tuesdays. This overcomes the geographical restrictions associated with 'meat-space' meetings and enables participation by a wider range of international researchers. The group aims to critically engage with appropriation in art, visual culture and media.

Appropriation commonly refers to the use or repurposing of adopted, recycled, sampled or borrowed elements in the creation of a new work. Borrowing from a definition by one of the group’s founding members, Eduardo Navas, ‘remix culture can be defined as the global activity consisting of the creative and efficient exchange of information made possible by digital technologies that is supported by the practice of cut/copy and paste.’

Questions of authorship, ownership and affect will be explored in a bid to better understand the role of remix in relation to the producer / consumer model evident in contemporary culture today. Drawing inspiration from the Dada, Situationist and Surrealist movements, among others, the evolving relationships between contemporary art, politics and media will be considered through analysis and interpretation of key texts and artworks in the field. Taking Michel de Certeau’s ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ as an entry point, the correlation between remix creativity and tactical media activism as a form of interventionist political action will be a central theme in our explorations.

Remix currently (Feb 2010) consists of six international participants representing research institutions in Ireland, the USA, Canada and Denmark. The group is open to anyone with an interest in remix, so if you would like to engage with this group at our next meeting, please send your Skype username to owen[at]totalrecut[dot]com.

 

readings

 

As a point of entry for building on this discourse, the following texts are suggested:

MANOVICH, Lev. (2008). The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life. Institute of Network Cultures: Amsterdam [ http://www.networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/files/2008/10/vv_reader_small.pdf ]

BOURRIAUD, Nicolas. (2002). Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay. Lukas & Sternberg : USA [ http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Bourriaud-Postproduction2.pdf ]

DE CERTEAU, Michel. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press: USA [ http://www.ubu.com/papers/de_certeau.html ]

DEBORD, Guy. (1956). Methods of Detournement. Les Lèvres Nues #8: Paris [ http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display/3 ]

 

 

spring semester 2010

 

The group convenes on alternate Tuesdays, 10.30pm – 12.30pm GMT.

 

  • 19/01/10 10:30-12:30

    Inaugural meeting: Skype Group Conference Introductions, proposed program plan for Spring semester, initial discussion of texts: Debord, Bourriaud

     

  • 02/02/10 10:30-12:30

    Discussion and debate sparked by reading of agreed texts: Manovich, De Certeau, Networked Book

  • 16/02/10 10:30-12:30

  • 02/03/10 10:30-12:30

  • 16/3/10 10:30-12:30

  • 30/03/10 10:30-12:30

  • 13/04/10 10:30-12:30

  • 27/04/10 10:30-12:30

  • 11/05/10 10:30-12:30

  • 25/05/10 10:30-12:30

 

 

 

 

For additional information on the collaborating institutions consult www.dit.ie, www.ncad.ie, www.iadt.ie and www.ulster.ac.uk.