Texts about, or by Eduardo Navas

October 16, 2009
Text: After Media (Hot and Cold) was originally published during the month of August, 2009 as part of Drain’s Cold issue.  The journal is a refereed online journal published bi-annually.  The text is republished in full on Remix Theory with permission.  Drain’s copyright agreement allows for 25% of the essay to be reblogged or reposted on other sites with proper citation and linkage to the journal at http://www.drainmag.com/.  I ask that their agreement be respected by the online community.

August 25, 2009
Text: The Aesthetics of Representation in Circuit Bending, written as a contribution to ReFunct 09’s Symposium taking place at ISEA 09.

June 1, 2009
Text: After the Blogger as Producer written for Interactiva 09 Biennale, May and June 2009. The text is an update on my own previous essay, The Blogger as Producer which I wrote after Walter Benjamin’s “The Author as Producer.”  In this update I evaluate how the blogosphere has changed since 2005, when I first considered the blogger with potential to become an important critical writer.

January 15, 2009
Text: Remix: The Bond of Repetition and Representation, by Eduardo Navas. This text was published in December 2008 in Inter/activos II by Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires. The publication was produced in support of a new media workshop and theory seminar by the same name which took place in 2006, organized by curator and writer Rodrigo Alonzo.

Interview: Scalable City: Interview with Sheldon Brown, by Eduardo Navas. This interview was commissioned by gallery@calit2 for the exhibition “Scalable City”. Exhibition dates: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 - Monday, Dec. 15, 2008

September 25, 2008
Text: Dub, B Sides and Their [re]versions in the Threshold of Remix, by Eduardo Navas. This text was originally published on Vague Terrain, Digital Dub Issue, August 08. It is reposted on Remix Theory as post #345 with minor edits, and an additional quote by Bunne Lee, to clarify the history of dub in Jamaica.

Interview: Reggae, Dub and Memory Play: Paul D. Miller, by Eduardo Navas This interview was originally published on Vague Terrain for their August 2008 Digital Dub Issue.

August 26, 2008
Text: On Distributed Social Cinema and the Nano Market, written for the exhibition SPECFLIC 2.6 and Particles of Interest: Installations by Adriene Jenik and *particle group*, at gallery@calit2, from August 6 to October 3, 2008. The text outlines how dematerialization is at play in contemporary life, and how it might be at play in the not so far future. The text complements interviews with Adriene Jenik and *particle group*, also for the same exhibition. Text and interviews by Eduardo Navas

May 21, 2008
The Author Function in Remix, by Eduardo Navas.
This text is a theoretical excerpt from one of my chapters on the role of Remix in Art. It outlines how the theories of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault on authorship are relevant to New Media, particularly their link to the interrelation of the user and the maker/developer in terms of sampling (a vital element of Remix as discourse).

April 25, 2008
“Exposure” A Video Installation, by Marie Sester, and Marie Sester Interview: Access, Transparency and Visibility in “Exposure”, both by Eduardo Navas. The text and interview were written for the exhibition “Exposure” A Video installation About Surveillance Pre-9/11 by Marie Sester, at gallery@calit2, on view from April 10 to June 6, 2008.

February 20, 2008
Text and Interview for the Exhibition “An 8-bit Moment in Gameplay,” by Eduardo Navas. Mary Flanagan’s interview and text about [giantJoytick] for the exhibition by the same title, on view at gallery@calit2, from February 4 to March 17, 2008.

December 12, 2007
Eduardo Navas Interview, by Greg Smith. Originally released in Serial Consign on September 24, 2007.

August 22, 2007
Remediative and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture, by Eduardo Navas.
This text was published on June 25, 2007 in Vague Terrain Journal as a contribution to the issue titled Sample Culture.

August 16, 2007
Entrevista a Eduardo Navas // artista, historiador y cri­tico especializado en nuevos medios, por: yto.cl. This interview was originally published by Yto (Isabel Aranda) in the Magazine Escaner Cultural, August of 2007, based in Santiago de Chile. It is currently only available in Spanish.

June 25, 2007
The Blogger as Producer, by Eduardo Navas. This essay was revised for publication in the book Instalando/Installing released on April 2007, by the Chilean Collective Troyano. It was originally released on Netartreview in March 2005. Also available in Spanish.

May 29, 2007
The Latency of the Moving Image in New Media, by Eduardo Navas. Essay written for an exhibition by the same name, shown at Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, May 25 to June 16, 2007. Also archived in remixtheory as post 190

April 26, 2007
Three Basic Forms of Remix: a Starting Point of Entry, by Eduardo Navas
Contains revisions from “Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats” as well as excerpts from an upcoming text. Also available at Noemalab, based in Milan, Italy: http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/
ideas_articles/navas_remix.html

February 1, 2007
Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats by Eduardo Navas
Commissioned by Turbulence.org (Boston/NYC)
for 3 x 3 New Media Fix(es) on Turbulence
Published in English, Italian and Spanish

January 20, 2007
El arte de combinar imágenes: el remix ya llegó a la plástica. Artistas plásticos crean sus obras combinando imágenes de otros autores, by Julián Guarino
This newspaper article includes some of my own theories on Remix.
Originally published on January 20, 2007 in El Clarí­n, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

January 10, 2007
A Critical Reflection on Four a minima:: Texts for the Exhibition NOW 2006, by Eduardo Navas
Una reflexión critica sobre cuatro textos de la revista a minima:: para la exhibición NOW 2006, por Eduardo Navas
This text was written to be part of a curatorial participation by a minima:: magazine in the exhibition NOW 2006, which took place at the CCCB, Barcelona, Spain.

December 6, 2006
Summary of Seminar on Remix by Eduardo Navas
Written and edited by Gabriela Pérez del Pulgar
The seminar took place at
Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires
Florida 943
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Presented on June 17 - 22, 2006

November 30, 2006
Review of X-Arn’s “Le Catalogue”