[Dancecult-l] CFP: "Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture" 2-3 December 2010

[Andrew Whelan]

Dancecult folks,
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Call for Papers

Revise: The Art and Science of Contemporary Remix Culture

Dec 2-3, 2010
University of Wollongong <http://uow.edu.au/> , Wollongong, Australia

In a media saturated environment, questions about authoriality and the
ownership of cultural content have come to be increasingly urgent. A
number of recent, high profile legal cases have highlighted the
difficulties involved in adjudicating between different models of
ownership and of cultural production. Furthermore, online environments
render local, fannish, and 'amateur' forms of cultural production
(frequently drawing on 'Big
Content') increasingly visible - sometimes to the apparent detriment
of these forms of vernacular creativity.

Across audio, televisual, cinematic, textual, and other forms,
proprietary models of cultural production face challenges in managing,
controlling, and monetising content tailored for a mass audience. It
is paradoxical that a measure of success for such content is the
extent to which it is - often almost immediately - adapted and re-used
by vernacular cultures. Conversely, interventions by fans and other
niche cultural producers are often understood on the one hand to be
forms of innovative appropriation and interventions in the flow of
cultural goods, and on the other to be products of unpaid labour,
raising the value of material that is already ubiquitous in an
attention economy sense.

This event aims to bring together researchers whose work investigates
aspects of remixing, alongside practitioners working in remix
cultures, for an interdisciplinary and collaborative conference. We
are also soliciting curated art and video works in addition to
presentations by remix practitioners and academic papers.

Call for papers
Abstracts of 200-250 words should be sent to revise2010 at gmail.com
<mailto:%20revise2010 at gmail.com>  by 15 April, 2010. Please include
your full name (and/or artist/fan name), email address, and
institutional affiliation (if applicable) along with the abstract. In
addition to formal academic papers, we also welcome roundtable or
panel discussion suggestions, and/or presentations by remix
practitioners on their art or style. Curated artwork exhibits and live
performance submissions are also welcomed. The following is a list of
possible themes, but it by no means exhaustive.

*       Interrogating the boundaries of remix: when did remix 'start'? What
of homage, pastiche, and the cover version? How are the boundaries
between reference and appropriation established, and to what ends?
*       'Reading' remixes: the semiotics of citation.
*       Literary allusion and remix in poetry: erasure and found poetry.
*       The artistic tradition of readymades.
*       Remix, originality, and creative process.
*       The ethics of appropriation.
*       Music remix - plunderphonics, DJ culture, hip-hop, electronic dance
music: sampling cultures and aesthetics.
*       Intertextuality and ekphrasis: elements of one medium surfacing in
another.
*       Remix offline and on: from dancefloors to netlabels and YouTube;
remix and the networked archive.
*       Remixing in time: repetition and variation of source material; remix
and the reconstitution of the past.
*       Histories of remix.
*       Fanfiction, slash and textual innovation.
*       Video: fan vidding, trailer mashups, anime music videos, machinima.
*       Remix and 'the canon': from JXL's A Little Less Conversation to
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
*       Open source as remix.
*       Visual art - digital media remix art, appropriation, combining
existing content.
*       Practices of appropriation and engagement with copyright, fair use
and other intellectual property doctrines.
*       The aesthetics and interactions of remix communities of practice.
*       Remix economics and anti-economics.
*       The role of industry in remix.


For more information, please email revise2010 at gmail.com
<mailto:%20revise2010 at gmail.com>  or see
http://revise2010.blogspot.com <http://revise2010.blogspot.com/>.