MEDIA AND THE ARCHIVE: Motions and Transformations

The Remixed Archive

In this unit, we explore the ways in which archives change, evolve, and get transformed by the affordances of technology in enabling (prod)users to reuse and recombine existing elements in order to create something new. What happens when we reinvent and reimagine a work to create something radically different? Does remix have powerful and subversive potentials? What does remixing the archive achieve?

Readings/Selections

Virginia Kuhn, "The Rhetoric of Remix," in Transformative Works and Cultures special issue on "Fan/Remix Video" (2012).

​#TransformDH Video Showcase (2015)

Remix video selections to be viewed in class.

Kelly Logan, "Through the Looking Lens"

Individual Pages

The Power of Remixing an Archive by Kelly Logan

Remix After "Remix" by Michael O'Krent

Remixes in Music: Giving Life to the Forgotten By Patrick McDonnell 

This Archive is Plastic by Heather Duncan 

Let's forget the semantics; it's just a matter of literacy by Kevin Tian

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