ART 80F - MODULE 3 LECTURE CONTENT
Remixing MEdia Systems as collage
Using media systems in unintended / not originally anticipated ways - subtle or overt
Can be part of retaking conversation / control of system
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Remixing / re-taking digital Media systems
Digital Media / Social Media AS COLLAGE when author has more control - algorithms disrupt
Social MEdia as Regenerative Remix + The feed as collage
From Eduardo Navas Remix Theory
The Regenerative Remix consists of juxtaposing two or more elements that are constantly updated, meaning that they are designed to change according to data flow. I choose the term “regenerative” because it alludes to constant change, and is a synonym of the term “culture.” Regenerative while often linked to biological processes is extended here to cultural flows that can move as discourse from medium to medium, although at the moment it is in software that it is best exposed. This is further evaluated in later sections.
The Regenerative Remix then is defined in opposition to the allegorical impulse, and in this sense, is the element that, while it liberates the forms that are cited from their original context, opens itself up for ahistoricity, and misinterpretations. The principle of the Regenerative Remix is to subvert, not to recognize but to be of practical use.
A mashup model, as previously noted, appears to be stable as long as the websites offering the information keep their APIs open is Pipes by Yahoo!.[38] This particular type of mashup goes deep into the database to access dynamic data. Pipes by Yahoo! actually points to the future of the web, where the user will be able to customize, to a sophisticated level, the type of information that s/he will be accessing from day to day. Pipes, in theory, provides the user with the same possibilities made available by Google, when the user is able to customize his/her own personal portal news page. The difference in Pipes, however, is that the user can combine specific sources for particular reasons. In a way, the specificity demands that the user really thinks about why certain sources should be linked. Pipes allows the user to choose a particular source, such as news, biddings, or map information to then link it to another source. Many of the pipes that I have browsed through leave me with a sense of critical thinking and practicality by the persons who created them, not that Pipe developers are after social or cultural commentary, but rather that they develop most pipes to be useful in specific ways.
Navas presents network / software mashups as more Practical / less tied to Allegory / History / Aesthetic
Constructs Entanglements
Entangled Elements
Expression / Representation / Visibility
Connection / Location / Dialogue / Narratives
Documentation + Organizing
Language + Symbols
User Participation
Network, parameters/setting, participation, navigation
System Controls
Access, Algorithm, Economics, Mediation