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.
