Exactly what does it mean to be a PP artist/designer/animator? Addressing this
question by remixing texts and images might enable you to reinvent the way we think
about contemporary animation and design practice, as well as how you think about the
concept of ‘postproduction’ or re-mixing.
Mark Amerika, Remix The Book
- The remixthebook.com website is the online hub for the digital remixes of many of the theories generated in the print book and features the work of artists, creative writers and scholars for whom the practice and theory of remix art is central to their research interests. Amerika develops a model of contemporary theoretical writing that mashes up the rhetorical styles of performance art, poetry, and the vernacular associated with 21st century social media and networking culture.
- Remixthebook author Mark Amerika, along with co-curator and artist Rick Silva, has invited over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, to sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters.
Following from my earlier lecture, I had a seminar that focused on a more hands on approach to postmodernism. 'Cut up' is a popular style we, in groups, used to create our own unique outcomes of existing images/type. The range of printed extracts were there for us to cut out and post-produce, using different parts to create a larger piece of art. We changed the original piece using processes of deconstruction, intervention, layering, concealing, revealing, repositioning, enhancement, embellishment, destruction and creation. I have photographs below, displaying some of the work my group produced. I love workshops that are hands on and productive. Experimentation was the key learning technique throughout this hour, using a range of resources to create your own outcome.
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