Dear list,
I just released a text online, commissioned by the MEIAC in Badajoz Spain.
I thought I would share it on the list. I believe, coincidentally, it is
related to the current discussion on networked environment.
Cheers,
Eduardo Navas
(info and links below)
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Remix[ing] Re/Appropriations, http://remixtheory.net/?p=474
Written for the MEIAC <http://meiac.es/> , Badajoz, Spain, March of 2010,
for the exhibition Re/appropriations <http://netescopio.meiac.es/> ,
organized by Gustavo Romano. The exhibition was launched in December 2009.
The text is released online with permission.
(Versión en Español <http://remixtheory.net/?p=473> )
The exhibition Re/Appropriations, curated by Gustavo Romano, proposes that
artists in networked culture find their creative potential in the
appropriation, selection, and combination of pre-existing material on a
meta-level‹that of the re, or more specifically, Remix as a form of
discourse. To this effect, Romano recontextualizes the artist as a
³redirector of information,² rather than a creator. This premise as the
entry point for creative production at the beginning of the twenty-first
century leads to a recurring question often posed on the popular awareness
of Remix: ³Remixing, as an act of combining material has been around for a
long time, one could argue since symbolic language was conceived; so, what
is so different about the elements of Remix explored during the first
decades of the twenty-first century that make them unique from those in the
past?²[1]
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