Remix Cinema Workshop
24th-25th March 2011
University of Oxford
<http://remixcinema.org>http://remixcinema.org
Context
In August 2010, the remix movie
<http://www.starwarsuncut.com/>Star Wars Uncut
was the first user-generated production to win
an Emmy Award. Other online platforms such as
<http://wreckamovie.com/>Wreckamovie.com enable
online communities to form for independent and
open source film making, harnessing distributed
forms of collaborative co-creation rather than
relying on traditional organisational
structures. Cloud-based editing suites have
begun appearing:
<http://www.stroome.com/>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
<http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26>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.
<http://www.djspooky.com/>Dj Spooky,
<http://www.eclecticmethod.net/>Eclectic Method
or <http://www.solu.org/>SOLU) 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 ?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.
Deadlines
* Abstract deadline: January 7, 2011; 500 words.
* Notification of acceptance of abstracts: January 28, 2011.
* Registration deadline: February 4, 2011.
* Full papers (optional) submission
deadline: March 7, 2011 (4000-6000 words).
* Presentation materials submission deadline: March 15, 2011.
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Daniel Villar Onrubia
Doctoral Student at
Oxford Internet Institute. University of Oxford
<mailto:(daniel.villaronrubia /at/ oii.ox.ac.uk)>(daniel.villaronrubia /at/ oii.ox.ac.uk)
| http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk
Member Board at
Espacio-Red de Prácticas y Culturas Digitales.
Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
<mailto:(d.villar /at/ pcd.unia.es)>(d.villar /at/ pcd.unia.es) | http://pcd.unia.es
