Hey DJ – Web 2.0 and remix culture

clipped from www.jonathanboutelle.com Web 2.0 is not blogs and blogging. But mass quantities of user generated content (both on commercial sites like amazon and blogs alike) set the stage for Web 2.0 by providing a moral pretext for remixing. If the value of the content is created by we the people, then we the people should be able to take that content back and build new things with it. The heart of Web 2.0 is about being able to remix and integrate without a negotiation, without permission even. It’s about being able to take an rss feed or an open API or data scraped from an XHTML website and grab that data, jam it together with another data source of the same kind, and build something new. Web 2.0 is about sampling, about mixing, about mash-ups. The web 2.0 hacker takes APIs and uses them the way a DJ uses albums, recombining disparate (already valuable) material into something fresh and new.

DJ Spooky’s Remix Simulacrum – “Today, the voice you speak with may not be your own”, DJ Spooky

clipped from digitalphilosophy.wordpress.com It can refer to the pessimistic Baudrillardian Integral Reality theory, in which anything is a simulacrum, a fake, including our “self”, our voice. [OR] It can be understood as an optimistic, web2.0 share-all style, in which the right to remix and to appropriate others’ voices goes mainstream.

The Coke Side of Life

Visit http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/cokesideofliferemix/ to ‘remix’ your very own Coke poster!

foundtracks: an experiment in remix culture

clipped from foundtracks.blogspot.com foundtracks melbourne, vic, Australia foundtracks is a third year media project collated by sarah bell of rmit university, melbourne australia. it is a collaborative venture which invites savvy home-producers & artists to create music utilizing a paintbox of found sounds. the tracks will then be made available for download & further remixing. this is a creative commons project. for more information email me at s3107861 at student dot rmit dot edu dot au.

Steal This Film II

clipped from stealthisfilm.com THE OIL OF THE 21ST CENTURY ‘Intellectual property’, said Mark Getty, ‘is the oil of the twenty first century’. Getty is chairman of Getty Images and one of the world’s largest intellectual proprietors. His comment offers a unique perspective on the conflicts evolving around information as it penetrates and shapes every aspects of our lives — from nutrition to medicine, from markets to civil liberties.

The Force will be with you… because you control it

clipped from www.wikinomics.com As YouTube gets hit with yet another lawsuit, it’s becoming�increasingly clear that the fate of content creation and distribution on the web will be bogged down by legal wrangling for years. However, at the same time there are a lot of interesting innovations happening that demonstrate how companies and content creators can effectively leverage the Web 2.0, rather than trying to fight it. The most�recent of these is Lucas Films and Eyespot.com teaming up to allow users to create their own Star Wars movie. Rather than trying to prevent fans from�creating and sharing videos related to the popular movie series, users are being given over 250 scenes/ musical selections to mix and match, and they are also free to use their home made material as well. To quote the press release directly:

Video Editing 2.0: 8 Ways to Remix Online Videos

clipped from www.readwriteweb.com So you’ve shot your masterpiece, but it’s a little rough around the edges. If you have any hope of winning that Oscar, you’re going to need to do a little editing. But renting out an editing bay means thousands of dollars and figuring out what all the shortcut keys on the Avid keyboard do. But wait, you’re in luck! Friday evening, YouTube launched their new video editing tool: YouTube Remixer, in partnership with Adobe. Avid it’s not, but perhaps it’s just what you need to turn your raw vacation footage into Spielberg or Coppola. Unfortunately, YouTube’s Remixer debuted to some rather tepid reviews, in part because it is more or less the same software Adobe rolled out with Photobucket in March. But wait, you’re in luck again! There are a bunch of other online video editing tools, and we’ll take a brief look at some of them below (though again, don’t expect Avid).

The Weblog Project

clipped from www.theweblogproject.com What Is The Weblog Project? TheWeblogProject is the first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to promote and evangelize bloggers, the blogosphere, and their potential. TheWeblogProject is conceived to be a completely different kind of movie, because featured stars, producers, fundraisers and actors of TheWeblogProject movie have all a unique trait: they are all bloggers. We have no other agenda but the one of helping bloggers tell everyone else what this media revolution is all about. TheWeblogProject is different from a traditional movie in several other respects: It will be distributed, FREE, via P2P and via the Internet Archive, under a Creative Commons Attribution License. It will be Folksonomy-enabled. It will be Open Source(d). Complete source footage will be distributed to all supporting bloggers (and not) for unlimited remixing.

Remix Defined Pt.8

clipped from remixtheory.net Another example is Youtube, a community site, which like Wikipedia is driven by the community. If a video is offensive or deemed inappropriate the community will let Youtube staff know immediately. Youtube also has a complex tie in with the corporate media, in which copyright infringement is always present, and it is quite common that when a corporation finds it to their benefit, they demand their material to be removed if it was posted without permission. This opens the door to the complexiies brought about by the creative possibilities of “free culture” and “remix culture.” For a detailed analysis of how the Selective and Extended Remixes are at play in new media art, please read the section “Remixes” in Turbulence: Remixes + Bonus Beats.