Blog Remixes
Since 2004 I have been using the blog as an art medium. My practice is directly informed by my research on Remix. Below are three blogs that put into practice what I define as the selective remix.
The selective remix consists of adding to or subtracting material from a pre-existing source. This type of remix made DJs popular producers in the music mainstream during the nineteen-eighties. The selective remix may not only extend the pre-existing material, following the tradition of the club mix, but can also contain new sections, while others are subtracted, always keeping the source recognizable. [1]
-- Eduardo Navas
(2004 - 2007)
Diary of a Star is a critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from the Andy Warhol Diaries.
Similar to sampling in music remixes, I selected diary entries from Warhol’s Diaries. The way the entries are recontextualized as blog posts allows the online user to recognize the work of Warhol, as well as the autonomy of the blog as an allegorical piece of art.
EXHIBITIONS:
Badajoz, Spain, 2009:
MEIAC, Museum Collection
Johanesburg Biennal, 2009:
JAF: Internet Art in the Global South
Netherlands Art Institute, 2008:
My Public Space
Computer Fine Arts Collection, NY, 2008
The New Museum, NY, 2005:
Artbase 101
(2008 to Present)
Traceblog is a daily ghost log of my online searches, created with TrackMeNot (TMN). While I surf the web, TrackMeNot is activated with the aim to cover my online surfing.
Traceblog is an extension of what I explored in Diary of a Star. In the former I comment on the issues of the private and public as seen by celebrities such as Warhol. In Traceblog I comment on the fact that online corporations are data-mining people's information. In terms of selectivity, I appropriate (remix) surf-logs and make them public as posts.
TEXTS:
Navas, Eduardo. "Traceblog." Net Works. Edited by Xtine Burrough. Routledge, 2011.
EXHIBITIONS:
Johanesburg Biennal, 2009:
JAF: Internet Art in the Global South
Fringe Exhibitions, LA, 2008:
Net Project
(2011 - Present)
Minima Moralia Redux is a selective remix.
The aphorisms of Theodor Adorno's Minima Moralia are carefully analyzed and reinterpreted in order to explore the principles of the selective remix, often found in music and video.
Minima Moralia Redux is the result of a long term post-doctoral analysis in cultural analytics performed for The Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, in collaboration with Software Studies Lab at the University of California, San Diego.
The long term research that informs Minima Moralia Redux consists of a three-case study of the patterns and evolution of remixes on YouTube.