Visual Identity Politics and Remix Society
VisualRemixStrategies

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“Remix […] informs the development of material reality dependant on the constant recyclability of material with the implementation of mechanical reproduction” (Navas 2012, p3).

A better introduction, coming soon…

Visual Remix Strategies

Outline of Research

March 20, 2023

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Dupe

More than a simple fake or rip-off, a dupe world/mindset/culture is a way to trick the system

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Appropriation (in Art and Art History)

Appropriation refers to the practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original. It raises questions of originality, authenticity and authorship, and questions the definition of art itself.

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Everything is a Remix Part 3-Update

Everything is a Remix Part 3 (2021), by Kirby Ferguson.

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Russia Remix

Russian appropriations on known brands. Found in De Volkskrant, 09.23.2022, V2.

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Remix strategie/ Sample: The appropration of feminist icon Rosie The Riveter by Leefbaar Rotterdam

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Decontextualization vs Recontextualization

‘Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp)’ (1991) by Sherrie Levine

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Not quite a remix: re-edit, merry-go-round, scratching, extended remix, version, replay, reblogging, toasting

Found in 'Say Watt? Le Culte du Sound system' @ La Gaité Lyrique, Paris. August 2013

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21C Mythologies

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McDonalds’ Wrap of the Day, a re-mix appropriation

Reading stuff

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Theory of Re-mix: a reading list

After Magritte. La Clef des songes (The Interpretation of Dreams). Brussels, 1935

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Sample (verb)

In its most basic definition, to sample means to copy or cut and paste.

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1001 streams of blackness

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Remix: Malcolm X, pulling back curtains to peer out of a window

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Remix: populism

A remix of populism. Typesetting, colours & rhyme refer to original VVD posters

Blackbook

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Beyoncé

16 zwarte vrouwelijke cadetten van West Point poseren in traditioneel uniform met geheven vuist (© AP)

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‘I am a prince and the music is the king’ – On Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry talks vampires, magic mirrors and Bob Marley with Krishnan Guru Murthy...

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Everything is a Remix

Everything is a Remix Remastered (2015) on Vimeo

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Remix: Kiss me I’m a blonde

Paolo Woods made a photo project about Haitians with second hand t-shirts they got after the hurricane.

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Remix

‘[CMD]+[c]’:, ‘[CMD]+[v]’: Everything is a Remix @ Vimeo

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RIP: a remix manifesto

1. Culture always builds on the past
2. The past always tries to control the future
3. Our futures is becoming less free
4. To build free society you must limit the control of the past

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