Remix Cinema Workshop: call for presentations & papers
March 24-25th 2011; Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford, UK).
The Remix Cinema workshop is organised by the Oxford Internet
Institute<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/>,
(University of Oxford <http://www.ox.ac.uk/>, UK) in collaboration with UNI=
A
Pr=E1cticas y Culturas Digitales <http://www.pcd.unia.es/> (Universidad
Internacional de Andaluc=EDa <http://www.unia.es/>, ES), and is funded by t=
he
UK's Art and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC
<http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/>) Beyond
Text <http://www.beyondtext.ac.uk/> programme.
*Website:* www.remixcinema.org | Twitter: @remixcinema
*Abstracts deadline: *January 7, 2011.
Context
In August 2010, the remix movie Star Wars
Uncut<http://www.starwarsuncut.com/>was the first user-generated
production to win an Emmy Award. Other online
platforms such as wreckamovie.com enable online communities to form for
independent and open source filmmaking, harnessing distributed forms of
collaborative co-creation rather than relying on traditional organisational
structures. Cloud-based editing suites have begun appearing:
Stroome.com<http://www.stroome.com/>was launched in April 2010 by USC
Annenberg with the tag-line =93mix it up.
mash it out=94. Digitalised photos, videos, and sound, easily accessible
through popular websites, constitute a diverse online repository of content
that is being used for artistic remix purposes. Recently, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation won a court
case<http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26>giving exemptions
from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
anticircumvention provisions to amateur remix video artists sharing their
works on e.g. YouTube. VJ=92s and live cinema artists (e.g. Dj
Spooky<http://www.djspooky.com/>,
Eclectic Method <http://www.eclecticmethod.net/> or SOLU<http://www.solu.or=
g/>)
have permeated multiple cultural settings, ranging from mainstream contexts
of entertainment to museums and other spaces devoted to the
institutionalisation of art practices.
The examples outlined are just a few fitting under the umbrella term of
=93Remix Cinema=94, and point to ways in which networked devices and resour=
ces
are facilitating new artistic audiovisual practices and cultures. The
concept of 'remix' describes a broad set of social and cultural practices
centred around the fragmentation and re-ordering of already existing and ne=
w
content, whether text, sound or images. This 2-day multi-disciplinary
workshop focuses on these diverse creative practices, particularly in the
context of the contemporary socio-technical media environment. It brings
together people interested in understanding and shaping remix cinema:
doctoral students, established scholars, practising artists, and anyone els=
e
interested in addressing themes related to questions including:
- How is the contemporary media-scape influencing artistic audio-visual
creation?
- What can we learn from the changing practices in remix cinema?
- How are new models of economic support (e.g. crowdfunding) changing
productions of cultural objects?
- What methodological and theoretical challenges arise in empirical
studies on remix cinema, and how do we overcome these?
Call for presentations & papers
The workshop committee welcomes proposals on any social, critical, cultural=
,
aesthetic, political, technical, economic or legal aspects of remix cinema
practices, cultures and works. We particularly welcome contributions that
report on empirical studies and adopt innovative methodological approaches.
Each presentation should last for a maximum of 15 minutes. Participants may
present finished studies or works-in-progress, as the workshop also serves
as a forum for gaining valuable feedback and exchanging ideas. All proposal=
s
will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the workshop's academic
committee (Oxford Internet Institute faculty).
Presenters are invited to submit full papers which will be eligible for
review and possible inclusion in a subsequent ISBN publication on remix
cinema.
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Daniel Villar Onrubia
Doctoral Student at
Oxford Internet Institute. University of Oxford
(daniel.villaronrubia /at/ oii.ox.ac.uk) | http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk
Member Board at
UNIA Pr=E1cticas y Culturas Digitales.
Universidad Internacional de Andaluc=EDa
(d.villar /at/ pcd.unia.es) | http://pcd.unia.es
