[ecrea] CFP: "Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture" 2-3 December, 2010

>Call for Papers
>Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture
>
>Dec 2-3, 2010
><http://uow.edu.au/>University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
>
>In a media saturated environment, questions 
>about authoriality and the ownership of cultural 
>content have come to be increasingly urgent. A 
>number of recent, high profile legal cases have 
>highlighted the difficulties involved in 
>adjudicating between different models of 
>ownership and of cultural production. 
>Furthermore, online environments render local, 
>fannish, and amateur forms of cultural 
>production (frequently drawing on Big Content) 
>increasingly visible  sometimes to the apparent 
>detriment of these forms of vernacular creativity.
>
>Across audio, televisual, cinematic, textual, 
>and other forms, proprietary models of cultural 
>production face challenges in managing, 
>controlling, and monetising content tailored for 
>a mass audience. It is paradoxical that a 
>measure of success for such content is the 
>extent to which it is - often almost immediately 
>- adapted and re-used by vernacular cultures. 
>Conversely, interventions by fans and other 
>niche cultural producers are often understood on 
>the one hand to be forms of innovative 
>appropriation and interventions in the flow of 
>cultural goods, and on the other to be products 
>of unpaid labour, raising the value of material 
>that is already ubiquitous in an attention economy sense.
>
>This event aims to bring together researchers 
>whose work investigates aspects of remixing, 
>alongside practitioners working in remix 
>cultures, for an interdisciplinary and 
>collaborative conference. We are also soliciting 
>curated art and video works in addition to 
>presentations by remix practitioners and academic papers.
>
>Call for papers
>Abstracts of 200-250 words should be sent to 
><mailto:%(20revise2010 /at/ gmail.com)>(revise2010 /at/ gmail.com) 
>by 15 April, 2010. Please include your full name 
>(and/or artist/fan name), email address, and 
>institutional affiliation (if applicable) along 
>with the abstract. In addition to formal 
>academic papers, we also welcome roundtable or 
>panel discussion suggestions, and/or 
>presentations by remix practitioners on their 
>art or style. Curated artwork exhibits and live 
>performance submissions are also welcomed. The 
>following is a list of possible themes, but it by no means exhaustive.
>    * Interrogating the boundaries of remix: 
> when did remix 'start'? What of homage, 
> pastiche, and the cover version? How are the 
> boundaries between reference and appropriation established, and to what ends?
>    * 'Reading' remixes: the semiotics of citation.
>    * Literary allusion and remix in poetry: erasure and found poetry.
>    * The artistic tradition of readymades.
>    * Remix, originality, and creative process.
>    * The ethics of appropriation.
>    * Music remix: plunderphonics, DJ culture, 
> hip-hop, electronic dance music sampling cultures and aesthetics.
>    * Intertextuality and ekphrasis: elements of 
> one medium surfacing in another.
>    * Remix offline and on: from dancefloors to 
> netlabels and YouTube; remix and the networked archive.
>    * Remixing in time: repetition and variation 
> of source material; remix and the reconstitution of the past.
>    * Histories of remix.
>    * Fanfiction, slash and textual innovation.
>    * Video: fan vidding, trailer mashups, anime music videos, machinima.
>    * Remix and 'the canon': from JXL's A Little 
> Less Conversation to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
>    * Open source as remix.
>    * Visual art - digital media remix art, 
> appropriation, combining existing content
>    * Practices of appropriation and engagement 
> with copyright, fair use and other intellectual property doctrines.
>    * The aesthetics and interactions of remix communities of practice.
>    * Remix economics and anti-economics.
>    * The role of industry in remix.
>
>For more information, please email 
><mailto:%(20revise2010 /at/ gmail.com)>(revise2010 /at/ gmail.com) 
>or see <http://revise2010.blogspot.com/>http://revise2010.blogspot.com.
>
>
>
>
>Katharina Freund
>PhD Candidate
>University of Wollongong
>
>Email: <mailto:(kmf077 /at/ uow.edu.au)>(kmf077 /at/ uow.edu.au)
>Telephone: +61 (2) 4221 4048
>Blog: <http://fanthropology.blogspot.com/>http://fanthropology.blogspot.com
>Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/katiedigc>katiedigc
>
>
>

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