The remixthebook group blog features artists, theorists, DIY expert amateurs and anyone else who is interested in reinventing what it means to develop a practice-based research platform in the emerging areas of interdisciplinary art and theory.
The Blog
Remix the Glitch: Mark Amerika's New "Museum of Glitch Aesthetics" Project
From remixthebook author Mark Amerika:
It's June 22, 2012, and we're soft-launching my new art commission, the Museum of Glitch Aesthetics. Here's a remix of the PR floati...
Rebooking the Mix (by Amaranth Borsuk)
Amaranth Borsuk has a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT, where she teaches and...
Busted Books, or How I Learned to Stop Authoring and Loving the Book (by Davis Schneiderman)
Davis Schneiderman is a multimedia artist and writer and the author or editor of ten print and audio works, including the novels Drain (TriQuarterly/Northwestern), the DEADBOOKS t...
Web Aesthetics: How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society (by Vito Campanelli)
Vito Campanelli is a new media theorist and a research fellow in Communications and New Technologies at University of Milan “IULM”. His ma...
Commonplace for the age of the world playlist (by Benjamin J. Robertson)
Benjamin J. Robertson is instructor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches classes on contemporary literature, media studies, baseball, and elves. He is working on two b...
Remix While You Still Can (by Hippocrit)
Hippocrit like words.
Hippocrit enjoys messing with words, and particularly likes it when language breaks down.
Hippocrit thinks language actively participates in the construction of reality.
Hippo...
Distance: Protect Your Mind (by Robert Arellano)
Robert Arellano is an internationally renowned columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Glow in heart, pit in stomach, he travels to places like Egypt, Syria and Russia to travel. He observes t...
Other Lives
DJ Lautréamont is a proponent of critical media literacy, professorial hacktivism, and practice-based research in the innovative arts. A former Chair in a Department of Fine Arts, ...
Art Sabotage (by Greg Debicki)
Greg Debicki is a Calgary-based composer and new media artist. He studied at the Dartington College of Arts and Alberta College of Art and Design. Currently he’s working with Derek Demassi to crea...
Remix the Dead (by Scott Rettberg)
Scott Rettberg teaches digital culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of novel-length works of elec...
Remixing History (by Whitney Trettien)
Whitney Anne Trettien is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University, writing a dissertation on the cut-and-paste biblical Harmonies ...
remixthebook blog (by Camille Baker)
Camille Baker is an artist-performer/researcher/curator within various art forms: mobile media, interactive and performance installation, music composition and performance, video art, web animation...
RemixTheBlog (by Mark R. Hancock)
Mark R. Hancock is an editor and writer. He has written art criticism for the BBC, Furtherfield, NewMediaFix, Neural, Digicult, as well as several commisions from the Arts Council. His essay on Exp...
Media Archaeology as an Instance of Remix (by Lori Emerson)
Lori Emerson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She writes on and teaches electronic...
Use Your Allusion: Culture in the Age of Digital Remix (by Roy Christopher)
Roy Christopher started making beats and mixes when "pause tapes" were the shit. He has written about music, technology, and culture for ove...
Inherited Auto-Affection and Processual Filters, Or: Born-Digital Remixers (by Guy Debord)
Self-proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and high profile of Situationist ideas, although the equation of the SI with Guy Deb...
Mix the Book (by Mark Sample)
Mark Sample is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at George Mason University...
An Email To A Ghost [Object : Art History As A Remix] (by Paule Mackrous)
Paule Mackrous is an author, a media arts curator and a PhD candidate in Semiotics at the University of Québec in Montréal. Editor in chief of the CIAC’ Electronic Magazine, she also contributes to...
@Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Remix of Wall St (in 99 Tweets) (by Niall Lucy)
Niall Lucy is Professor of Critical Theory at Curtin University, Western Australia, and co-editor with Robert Briggs of online journal Ctrl-Z...
To You
Erin Costello is a poet, artist, and a few other things. Her work has recently appeared in Drunken Boat, Trickhouse, and the e-poetry festival in Buffalo. She is the co-founder of <a href="http://s...
Scholarly Remix: Academia Reassessed (by Janneke Adema)
Janneke Adema is a PhD student at Coventry University currently writing a dissertation on the future of the monograph. Her research practice focuses on issues of openness, remix, authorship and int...
Remix the Life (by Randall Packer)
Randall Packer is an internationally acclaimed multimedia artist and composer, creating works that have pioneered the integration of interactive media, installation, and live performance. His work ...
Philosophical Remix (by David J. Gunkel)
David J. Gunkel is Presidential Teaching Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Hacking Cyberspace (Westview, 2001), Thinking Otherwise: Philos...
Discovering Your Passion & Making Money - Exercise 1 (Complete Individually, Without Partner/Spouce) (by Aaron Angello)
Aaron Angello is a poet and artist living in Denver, CO. His poems have appeared in a number of journals and his performances, videos, and installations are out there, too. He teaches creative writ...
Mixing Metaphors (by Rick Silva)
Rick Silva's art has shown in exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including Transmediale (Germany), Futuresonic (U.K.), and Sonar (Spain). His art and research has been supported through grants an...
Jokes and Riffs (by Nicholas O'Brien)
This week's guest blogger Nicholas O'Brien is an artist, writer, curator, and educator of art that exists around the web. Although he is reluctant and skeptical of determining his practice through ...
Remix As If (by Curt Cloninger)
remixthebook Guest Blogger Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Assistant Professor of New Media at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His art undermines language as a system ...
Society of the Spectale (A Digital Remix)
The Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) is a ten-minute DVD art-loop that uses source material from the writing, images, recordings, and other psychogeographical wanderings of arch-Situation...
Who Is Remixing You Now?
Flusser:
The word processor’s text is a "thrown" game, a result that has been predicted. Can this thrown result be distinguished from my own text -- or is this too a thrown game, achiev...
Probing Your Remix Practice
In Toward A Philosophy of Photography, Flusser writes:
The task of the philosophy of photography is to question photographers about freedom, to probe their practice in pursuit ...
Remixology
Henri Bergson once wrote:
[...] there is no perception without affection. Affection is, then, that part or aspect of the inside of our body which we mix with the image of exter...
remixthebook: the blog
The remixthebook group blog features postings from artists, theorists, graduate and undergraduate students from various majors...