Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times

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March 14, 2007

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — In a classroom at a community center near a slum here, a street-smart teacher offers a dozen young students tips on how to improve their graffiti techniques. One floor below, in a small soundproof studio, another instructor is teaching a youthful group of would-be rappers how to operate digital recording and video equipment.
Students practice drawing because of graffiti’s connection to hip-hop.

This is one of Brazil’s Culture Points, fruit of an official government program that is helping to spread hip-hop culture across a vast nation of 185 million people. With small grants of $60,000 or so to scores of community groups on the outskirts of Brazil’s cities, the Ministry of Culture hopes to channel what it sees as the latent creativity of the country’s poor into new forms of expression.

The program, conceived in 2003, is an initiative of Brazil’s minister of culture, Gilberto Gil, who will be speaking on digital culture and related topics on Wednesday at the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in Austin, Tex. Though today one of the country’s most revered pop stars, Mr. Gil, 64, was often buy cytotec ostracized at the start of his own career and so feels a certain affinity with the hip-hop culture emerging here.

Also see:

Brazilian Hip Hop on the rise
http://madeinbrazil.typepad.com/
madeinbrazil/2007/03/brazilian_hip_h.html
Brazilian Hip Hop On The Rise

Text and Image source: http://www.listeningin.org/

November 25, 2004

The Creative Remix, with host Benjamen Walker, is an hour-long “lawyer free” examination of the art, culture, and history of the remix. The hour kicks off with a musical analysis of DJ Dangermouse’s infamous remix of the Beatles and Jay-Z. Then we go back in time to check out the ancient Roman art of the poetry mash-up, or the Cento. Then we rewind to the 18th century to check out the birth of copyright and how it effected writers like Alexander Pope; and the early 20th century when the visual artist Marcel Duchamp used the remix to reinvent everything. We also take a field trip to the Mass MOCA museum of modern art to check out the exhibit “Yankee Remix.” Walker brings along a few grad students and a pair of curmudgeonly New England antique collectors to investigate different attitudes towards remixing. In the second part of the program Benjamen Walker speaks with unique remix artists, including Gideon D’Arcangelo the walkman buster.

Listen to the Broadcast

Image source: http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/msmdx/blog/
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Text source: http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/~ryanshaw/
wordpress/2005/08/15/new-remix-culture-diagram/

I’ve updated my MSMDX diagram, which illustrates how media and metadata flow to and from different activities around media on the web. The old diagram, which Chris Anderson called “one of the more cogent graphics illustrating the new architecture of participation in a remix culture,” and Howard Rheingold described as “a kind of mandala of technologies of cooperation in many-to-many cultural production,” was nice, but it had a few serious problems:

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Notes: This is an abstract of a conference presentation. The overall premise of the event is actually the real subject of interest in this case.

Text source: http://raymondyee.net/wiki/WorkingWithRemixCultureTalk

Event Description: The reuse or “remix” of digital content is one of the hottest topics in web development today. Not a day passes in which there is not some new “mashup” or novel combination of data or services. Although many of these developments are faddishly entertaining, the potential for transformative development for teaching and learning is profound. (Is it too much of a vulgarization to argue that scholarship itself is a form of remix?) This session will provide an introduction to remix cheap kamagra plus culture using two primary examples: 1) mixing Flickr and Google Maps and 2) mixing art imagery and data via the Scholar’s Box, a tool that gives users gather/create/share functionality, enabling them to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research. Consider the longer term implications of remix for education and research and hear about a strategy for constructively engaging with remix culture: how we can educate the next generation of librarians to understand remixing and how we might make library content and services reusable to facilitate new educational and scholarly uses.

Text source: http://mbf.blogs.com/mbf/2006/week39/index.html

Joel Flynn has recently achieved his Masters of Science at Simon Fraser University with a Thesis on Remix culture [full title, in capital letters, “TRAVELS IN INTERTEXTUALITY: THE AUTOPOETIC IDENTITY OF REMIX CULTURE”]. He aptly made “two different “mixes”: one has all the images and media links http://www.karmafia.com/thesis/2006-07-27_JFlynn_ThesisDC.pdf and the other has replaced everything that would be questionable in terms of the school’s copyright policy http://www.karmafia.com/thesis/2006-08-14_JFlynn_ThesisPC.pdf. Be sure to check it out.
Here’s the abstract:
“Travels in Intertextuality aims for what John Berger would call “ways of seeing” digital media artifacts and interacting cultural texts. Using Lev Manovich’s Language of New Media, these “new media objects” are seen through the metaphorical “coordinated set of lenses” of Michael Cole’s Cultural Psychology. In addressing issues of “writing” and identity in the digital age at the intersection of technology, art, and commerce, this highly exploratory work looks for ways to perceive “value” in remix culture through ecological models of sociocultural systems. The thesis “follows the problem” of remix through “pioneering research”, “reflective practice”, and shifting contexts for expansive learning. Emerging from significant pools of digital media, “remix value” is analysezd through cultural-historical perspectives, as well as through the autopoietic perspectives of “self-making” biological and sociolinguistic systems.”

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The New Gamer stopped posting Gamer Remix Reviews some time ago.  Regardless, the reviews that are still available are worth perusing.

Some of the reviews that I find relevant to my research include Saskrotch – Nintendo Breakz Vol. 1, Binster – ICO (Icon OC ReMix), and McVaffe – Castlevania Adventure [CV2K] and Nullsleep – Depeche Mode GameBoy remixes.

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Text source: Adobe Pressroom

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 21, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) is pioneering a new way to deliver its industry leading creative software technologies online, with the launch of its web-based video remix and editing technology. Today, Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership to integrate Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology directly into the Photobucket user experience, giving 35 million Photobucket users direct, free access to world-class digital video editing tools. The agreement marks a new stage in Adobe’s delivery of its renowned video software technologies that today underpin flagship products such as Adobe® Premiere® Elements and Adobe Premiere Pro. (more…)

Image source and project URL: jumpcut.com

Jumpcut is an online resource that allows you to “Upload your own video, photos and music; Explore shared content; Grab what you want, Create your own movies or Remix someone else’s to make your own version, Publish your movies to your friends or Share them with the world.”

It’s worth noting that all video clips have “Remix” button.  A peculiar feature that makes this project standout as an opened-ended ongoing collaboration.

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents Digital Diving: A “Cut and Paste” Update. Moderated by Suzanne Anker, chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA, the symposium will explore the uses and abuses of digital technologies as they effect knowledge acquisition and its manipulation. “New media” models of the visual and alterations in community configurations will be the focus of the discussion . The panelists are Lauren Cornell, Joseph Nechvatal, Judith Solodkin, Bruce Wands and McKenzie Wark. The event takes place Tuesday, February 27, 7pm at School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City. Admission is free.
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Image source: Pipes.yahoo.com

Text source: BBC

January 19, 2007

Pipes allows a mash-up of web 2.0 sites

The way we use the web is changing and the future lies in mixing, mash-ups and pipes, says columnist Bill Thompson.

When the web was young we were happy just to see words and pictures on the screen in front of us.

All backgrounds were grey, all fonts were Times and anything other than a static image required a “helper application” to be loaded and run, so that video clips and sounds played in separate windows on screen.

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