In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary companion, contributors reflect on remix across the broad spectrum of media and culture, with each chapter offering in-depth reflections on the relationship between remix studies and the digital humanities.
The anthology is organized into sections that explore remix studies and digital humanities in relation to topics such as archives, artificial intelligence, cinema, epistemology, gaming, generative art, hacking, pedagogy, sound, and VR, among other subjects of study. Selected chapters focus on practice-based projects produced by artists, designers, remix studies scholars, and digital humanists. With this mix of practical and theoretical chapters, editors Navas, Gallagher, and burrough offer a tapestry of critical reflection on the contemporary cultural and political implications of remix studies and the digital humanities, functioning as an ideal reference manual to these evolving areas of study across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of digital humanities, remix studies, media arts, information studies, interactive arts and technology, and digital media studies.
In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary companion, contributors reflect on remix across the broad spectrum of media and culture, with each chapter offering in-depth reflections on the relationship between remix studies and the digital humanities.
Introduction Part I Epistemology and Theory
1. A Brief History of Remix:
From Caves to Networks
2. The More Things Change: Who Gets Left Behind as
Remix Goes Mainstream?
3. Experiments in Performance, Identity, and Digital
Space: 48 Mystory Remixes, Remixed
4. Production Plus Consumption: Remix and
the Digital Humanities
5. Immersive Feminist Remix: An Affect Dissonance
Methodology
6. Versioning Buddhism: Remix and Recyclability in the Study of
Religion
7. Monster Theory 2.0: Remix, the Digital Humanities, and the Limits
of Transgression
8. Samping New Literacies: Remix Studies and Digital
Humanities in a Cross-Disciplinary Approach
9. RS (Remix Studies) + DH
(Digital Humanities): Critical Reflections on Chance and Strategy for Empathy
Part II Accessibility and Pedagogy
10. Designing the Remix Library
11.
Interdisciplinary Design and Transcultural Collaboration as Transformative
Remix Tools
12. In the Mix, the Collaborative Remix to Repair, Reconnect,
Rebuild
13. Remixing Literature in the Classroom: From Canons to Playlists in
the Study of Latinx Literature and Beyond
14. Metadata for Digital Teaching:
Enabling Remix for Open Educational Resources
15. Hack It! DIY Divine Tools:
An Art Hack Implemented as New Media Pedagogy in the Public Liberal Arts
16.
On the Capabilities of Hip Hop-Inspired Design Research: An Annotated
Syllabus
17. Internet Memes as Remixes: Simpsons Memes and the Swarm Archive
18. Poetically Remixing the Archive Part III Modularity and Ontology
19.
Hallucination or Classification: How Computational Literature Interacts with
Text Analysis
20. Machine-Driven Text Remixes
21. Talk to Transformer: AI as
Meta Remix Engine
22. The Critical Role of New Media in Transforming Gamers
into Remixers
23. Vandalize a Webpage: Automation and Agency, Destruction and
Repair
24. Allegories of Streaming: Image Synthesis and/as Remix
25. Always
Already Just: Combinatorial Inventiveness in New Media Art
26. Computational
Creativity: Algorithms, Art, and Artistry
27. Remix Games as Instruments of
Digital Humanities Scholarship: Harnessing the Potential of Virtual Worlds
Part IV Aurality and Visuality
28. Popular Song Remixed: Mashups, Aesthetic
Transformation, and Resistance
29. Remixing the Object of Study: Performing
Screen Studies through Videographic Scholarship
30. Cinema Remixed 4.0: The
Rescoring, Remixing, and Live Performance of Film Soundtracks
31. The Sound
of the Future: A Digital Humanities Remix Essay
32. Hacking the Digital
Humanities: Critical Practice and DIY Pedagogy
33. DJing Archival
Interruptions: A Remix Praxis and Reflective Guide
34. Exploring Remix
Process: The Case of the Spanish Megamix
35. Scratch Video: Analog Herald of
Remix Culture
36. Curating, Remixing, and Migrating Archived Muse Files
Eduardo Navas is Associate Research Professor of Art at The School of Visual Arts at The Pennsylvania State University, PA. He implements methodologies of cultural analytics and digital humanities to research the crossover of art and media in culture. His production includes art and media projects, critical texts, and curatorial projects. Navas is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015), Keywords in Remix Studies (2018), and has published extensively on remix theory and practice. He is Research Faculty in the College of Arts and Architectures Art & Design Research Incubator (ADRI).
Owen Gallagher is Programme Manager and Assistant Professor of Web Media at Bahrain Polytechnic, where he lectures in film, sound, animation, and game design. He is the author of Reclaiming Critical Remix Video (2018), and co-editor of Keywords in Remix Studies (2018) and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2015) with Eduardo Navas and xtine burrough. He has published a number of book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers on remix culture, intellectual property, and visual semiotics, and is particularly concerned with the changing role of copyright in the networked era.
xtine burrough is Professor and Area Head of Design + Creative Practice in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas, and she is the Director of LabSynthE, a laboratory for creating synthetic, electronic poetry. She uses emerging technologies and remix as a strategy for engaging networked audiences in critical participation. She is the author of Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, 2nd Edition, and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies and Keywords in Remix Studies with Eduardo Navas and Owen Gallagher.