Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation of innovative new works of visual, literary, and performance art through the mashup. In remixthebook, Mark Amerika explores the mashup as a defining cultural activity in the digital age
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments
Play All the Remixes (An Introduction)
remixthebook
Source Material Everywhere (The Alfred North Whitehead Remix)
Mind Bank Network (The Allen Ginsberg Remix)
Artist, Medium, Instrument (The Nam June Paik Remix)
The Renewable Tradition (Extended Play Remix)
Why Video Games Suck (The Ad Reinhardt Remix)
Mark Amerika Nature Photography (Studio Remix)
Situationist Comedy (Alternative Laugh Track Remix)
Premonition Algorithm (The Big Kahuna Remix)
Source Material
About the Author :
Mark Amerika is professor of art and art history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and principal research fellow of media studies at La Trobe University. An artist, novelist, media theorist, web publisher, and VJ artist, his work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Whitney Biennial, the Walker Art Center, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. His books include META/DATA: A Digital Poetics.
Review :
"Think of remixthebook as DJ Tool made from rhythms downloaded, ripped, mixed, spliced, diced, and burned into our collective hard drives, then re-uploaded. It's a piece of conceptual hardware that exists somewhere between how we experience information and how information aesthetics has transformed the human condition. It's that deep."—Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid
