This document discusses the concept of remix and how all creativity builds upon what came before. It explores how digital technology has enabled new forms of remix by making it possible to easily combine and modify different media like sounds, images, video and text. The document presents examples of different types of remixes like mashups, covers and parodies. It also discusses the tensions between remix culture and intellectual property law, referencing Lawrence Lessig's work. The goal is to have participants engage with these ideas by creating their own remixes during the workshop.

1. Everything
Is A Remix
With Dom Pates
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2. All creativity is derivative
#CityLIS @dompates
Originality comes from
borrowing
Culture progresses by
building on the past

3. Session contains:
 An exploration of
notions of ‘remix’
 Showcase examples
of some of my digital
works
 A look at intellectual
property rights and
modern literacy skills
 A chance to build
your own remixes
‘Noughties, But Nice’ by D1 Designs (Flickr, CC-BY)
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Collage Derivative Citation Parody Cut-up
Montage Pastiche Remix Cover Mash-up
Imitation Appropriation Bricolage Contrafact Remake

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‘Lawrence Lessig’ by Joi Ito(Flickr, CC-BY)
Lessig on
Remix

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ROM
(Read-Only Memory)
Memory for which the
contents may be read
but cannot be written
to by the computer
system.
BCS Glossary of
Computing and ICT,
12th ed
RWM
(Read-Write Memory)
Memory that can be
read from and written
to. Includes internal or
external hard drives,
rewritable CDs and
USB flash drives.
RAM is also read-
write.
RO
(Read-Only Culture)
Cultural tokens that
are read, looked at or
listened to, eg reading
a book, listening to
music, watching a
movie. Much of 20th
Century culture was
Read-Only.
‘Remix’, L. Lessig
(2008)
RW
(Read-Write Culture)
Adding to Read-Only
culture by re-creating
it, such as through
remix.

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The “natural” constraints of the
analog world were abolished by the
birth of digital technology. What
before was both impossible and
illegal is now just illegal.
(thus were born the ‘copyright wars’)

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The freedom to quote, and to build upon,
the words of others is taken for granted
by everyone that writes.
…remixed media may quote sounds over
images, or video over text, or text over
sounds. The quotes thus get mixed
together. The mix becomes the new
creative work – the ‘remix’.

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Remix is an essential part of RW
creativity…(It) does not compete
with or weaken the market for the
creative work that gets remixed.
These markets are
complementary, not competitive.

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https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy/

16. Alternative instructions
You will be assimilated
• Create a different kind of remix
artefact in response to the statement
• Could be either sound or image based
• Use whatever tools are on hand (eg
Audacity, Photoshop, online tools)
• If completed before end of workshop,
share to CityLIS blog
Instructions
You will be assimilated
• In small groups, create a 20-30
second remix movie in response to the
statement above
• Use clips from the Prelinger Archive as
source materials
• Overlay with written or spoken text,
and/or ‘usable’ music
• Create film in Windows Live Movie
Maker
• If completed before end of workshop,
share to CityLIS blog
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