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The Remix Culture seminar investigates the emergence of interdisciplinary media art practices that experiment with digital remixing, textual mash-ups, appropriation, blogging, live A/V performance, and other art forms that engage with renewable source material. The seminar will study practice-based research methods in contemporary art that integrate radical theories into the mix with particular emphasis on recent inquiries into rhythm science, postproduction art, literary cut-ups, participation art, relational aesthetics, pla(y)giarsm, hactivism, détournement, and remixology.
Students will combine exceptional online research skills with in-depth readings, DVD screenings, web surfing, and in-class presentations. We will also conduct individual and collaborative experiments in creating new works of remix art using text, digital imaging, sound, and other media. Many of these subjects will blend into each other as we investigate how developing an interdisciplinary media arts practice is less about the technology one uses or the genres they filter their creativity through, and more about turning the artist into a medium/instrument that applies their own remix style across a variety of media platforms. We will also look at how artists develop their own theories and parallel poetics as part of their emerging practice. In this regard, one of our main goals will be to develop a vocabulary and cluster of ideas that will help us articulate what remixology (the practice-based study of remix art and culture) is and how it can be used to critically challenge conventional writing and art practices. The course is both practice-based and theory-driven. This means that you will be required to experiment with your own theoretical expressions via practice-based research. Required books (available at CU Bookstore):
Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau
Note: It is absolutely essential that you attend class. There will be no unexcused absences and only one excused absence per semester. Each unexcused absence will result in a letter grade drop. Also be aware that coming to class late and/or leaving class early will effect your grade as well (two days of leaving early or arriving late counts as one unexcused absence). Not turning in assignments on time will also negatively effect your final grade.
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