IMG_0019, a photo by keen_seth on Flickr.

‘Remixthecontext: the transmedia artist in network culture’ presentation by Mark Amerika at the State Library on the 15th November. Organised by The Centre for Creative Arts, La Trobe University.

Keynote notes of the lecture on Mark’s blog.

The blurb sent out to describe the presentation:

Remix is a widespread practice of recombining existing material to make something new —including covers, sampling, mash-ups, smash-ups, cut-ups. Mark Amerika looks at how new media artists, many of whom identify with the historical avant-garde, are expanding the forms of remix art to foreground an anti-disciplinary [anti-authoritarian + interdisciplinary] approach to both contemporary practice and theory. Amerika will discuss his experimental art, theory, and pedagogy, including his recent projects Immobilité and remixthebook.

The presentation was followed by a conversation between Dan Angeloro (Soda_Jerk) and Mark Amerika.

remixthebook.com

Comment:
Amerika used the term ‘transmedia producer’ – then critiqued transmedia as term used for marketing – what (quote) ‘…commercially minded academics have called convergence’
Thought: Social media networking is a form of remixing a message passing on bits, re-appropriated the original…

Norie quotes from introduction:
Art making machine
Social media networking culture

Mark Amerika quotes from presentation:
Remixology
Remix the remix into self-contained parts
Data of everyday life
Performance art practice
Digital fields of distribution
Applied remixology
Riff reading
Situate our practices into everyday life
Novel togetherness
Social network media performance
Open source practice
Socially relevant aesthetic effect
Transmedia Narrative
Social media performance
Hybridised social media performance practice
DIY amateurism
Being in production is a ruse
We are always in post-production
Manipulate the data of everyday life
Intuitive medium engaged in creative media act
Subtitles are the interior monologue
Mobile phone video recording technology – lens brush
Hand-held choreography
Painterly rhythms
Institutional straight jackets
Meta-media mystik
Port my sensibility through it
Lost your flow

IMG_0020, a photo by keen_seth on Flickr.

Soda jerk notes:
Audiovisual samples
Space idea – Sun Ra, Astro Boy, Kraftwerk
After rainbow – video work
Post-production set
(quote) ‘Remix is the new LSD’
Role of the accident

References:
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
Duchamp 1957 speech ‘The Creative Act’
Subtitles
On the Foreignness of Film, edited by Atom Egoyan and Ian Balfour
Streaming Museum, Director, Nina Colosi
koja essen sonic book (? need correct spelling)
Situationist film
Craig Baldwin found footage movement

From the Modern History home page:

Modern History is a series of collages assembled exclusively from screen grabs of Youtube videos. This is a work in progress and the site will be updated as I finish new pieces.