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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461408303321

Autore

Amerika Mark

Titolo

Remixthebook [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Amerika

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8166-7871-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Art and technology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Source material everywhere (the Alfred North Whitehead remix) -- Mind bank network (the Allen Ginsberg remix) -- Artist, medium, instrument (the Nam June Paik remix) -- The renewable tradition (extended play remix) -- Why video games suck (the Ad Reinhardt remix) -- Mark Amerika nature photography (studio remix) -- Situationist comedy (alternative laugh track remix) -- Premonition algorithm (the big kahuna remix).

Sommario/riassunto

Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation of innovative new works of visual, literary, and performance art through the mashup. In ""remixthebook,"" Mark Amerika explores the mashup a