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The Remix Culture seminar investigates the emergence of interdisciplinary media art practices that experiment with the art of remixing, including but not limited to textual mash-ups, image appropriation, Internet and generative art, sound art, garage cinema, machinima, installation art, live A/V performance, culture jamming, 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, digital 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, video, 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
TWO RULES TO PLAY BY: 1. This course does not require you to search the Internet or check email during class. Therefore, NO LAPTOPS OR OTHER DEVICES ARE TO BE VISIBLE OR TURNED ON DURING CLASS MEETINGS. 2. It is absolutely essential that you attend class. Prior experience teaching this course consistently reveals that those who attend all of the classes and finish all of their work on time perform the best. There will be no unexcused absences (each unexcused absence will result in a half-grade drop). Only two excused absences per semester. After that, each absence will result in a half-grade drop. Also be aware that coming to class late and/or leaving class early will affect your grade as well (two days of leaving early or arriving late counts as an unexcused absence). Being prompt and staying the course are required.
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