| Remix Culture | Professor Mark Amerika
Spring 2010 Thurs 5:00 - 7:20 PM VAC 1B23 (Digital Seminar Room) email: Mark.Amerika@Colorado.Edu |
| Remixology: The Study of Remix Culture
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Remix culture is everywhere. Although popularized in music culture and now the Web 2.0 online networking scene, we find it in literature, photography, video, net art, audio art, hactivism, and video games/machinema. We can trace its history through many other practices such as collage, combines, and Duchampian readymades (where he recontextualizes "found source material"). As part of our goal to seek other perspectives that will help us explore these exciting areas of study, we will have a provocative mix of readings, screenings, web-surfings, and in-class visitors throughout the semester. Here is a tentative schedule of events:
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| Tagging the Present | |
| Bling Bling Blogging |
Do a web search on the recent phenomenon known as "blogs" or web-logs. You can get started at a popular spot like blogger.com which lets you start building and designing your own "blog" at their website if you want to do it the easy way. Each week throughout the semester, YOU ARE REQUIRED to compose an entry to your "blog" detailing your thoughts about the various readings, art works, artists, curators, events, and classroom discussions you encounter over the course of the semester. Try and make at least two links to external sites from each of your main entries to help document your online research. Quote from these sites if possible. Each entry should be at least 500 words unless otherwise noted. Feel free to include digital images, sounds, Quicktime movies, and any other useful media in your "blogs" in addition to your writing. If you have the capability, or are interested in proactively researching the phenomenon known as "moblogging" or expanding the concept of writing to include "video blogging" (where you script or improvise your reactions to the course material), feel free to discuss that with me before proceeding. Keep in mind that these "blogs" should be both well-thought out subjective responses to various issues covered throughout the semester and, when possible, should come across as spontaneous artist theories that express your own personal writing style. Feel free to speculate and offer insights into how the work you are being exposed to this semester is starting to effect your own developing practice as an artist, theorist, interdisciplinary media practitioner, performer, etc. Since these will be online, that means they are "always already published" and, as such, are open to the public. Keep that in mind! NOTE: Your weekly blogs are due at noon on Wednesday before class. LINKS: You can check out Professor Steve Shaviro's blog here. To keep up with the latest in interdisciplinary media art practice, two blogs stand out: here and here too. Definitely pay attention to this video blog site (and while you're at it, this one too). The theoretical concept of a video blog was first developed here. Literary types will surely want to to track the current fictional underground here. If you look for it, you will find A LOT of blog art out there. For example, this exhibition at Alt-X. |
| Evaluations | |
| Measure for Measure |
You will be graded in the following manner:
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