Remix Cinema Workshop: call for presentations & papers
March 24-25th 2011; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (UK).
Abstract submission deadline: January 7, 2011
Context
In August 2010, the remix movie Star Wars Uncut
was the first user-generated production to win
an Emmy Award. Other online platforms such
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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 was
launched in April 2010 by USC Annenberg with the
tag-line ?mix it up. mash it out?. 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
giving exemptions from the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention
provisions to amateur remix video artists
sharing their works on e.g. YouTube. VJ?s and
live cinema artists (e.g. Dj Spooky, Eclectic
Method or SOLU) have permeated multiple cultural
settings, ranging from contexts of mainstream
entertainment to museums, and other spaces institutionalizing art practices.
The examples outlined are just a few fitting
under the umbrella term of ?Remix Cinema?, and
point to ways in which networked devices and
resources 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 new 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 else 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 proposals
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.
* The Remix Cinema workshop is organised by
the Oxford Internet Institute, (University of
Oxford, UK) in collaboration with UNIA
Prácticas y Culturas Digitales (Universidad
Internacional de Andalucía, ES), and is funded
by the UK's Art and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Beyond Text programme.
* Website: <http://www.remixcinema.org>www.remixcinema.org
* Twitter: @remixcinema
