Remix

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In a digital age where music remixing is so commonplace that it's completely taken for granted, the same sampling (r)evolution is now happening across other media, and movies could be the next hot sampling source. Addictive TV have commissioned some of the world's leading audiovisual artists and visual remixers to create ten-minute remixes of some classic feature films and cult B-movies. ... Deconstructed - and playfully reconstructed - narratives emerge, visual trickery abounds and completely new soundtracks have been created, all the while keeping the essence of the original films.

http://www.vjcentral.com/?mod=news&act=view&id=the_film_remix_project_7th_oct

Think sample versus the whole work. If we are indeed living in a remix culture does it still make sense to create whole works – if these works will be taken apart and turned into samples by others anyway?

Indeed, why painstakingly adjust separate tracks of Director movie or After Effects composition getting it just right if the “public” will “open source” them into their individual tracks for their own use using some free software?

Of course, the answer is yes: we still need art. We still want to say something about the world and our lives in it; we still need our own “mirror standing in the middle of a dirty road,” as Stendahl called art in the nineteenth century.

Yet we also need to accept that for others our work will be just a set of samples, or maybe just one sample. Turntable is the visual software that makes this new aesthetic condition painfully obvious. It invites us to play with the dialectic of the sample and the composite, of our own works and the works of others. Welcome to visual remixing Flash style.

Think Turntable. http://www.neen.org/wb/files/theories.htm