Select remixes #2: Remixes in the Vimeo Festival & Awards 2010

In 2010 the video-sharing platform Vimeo organised the first edition of its own Festival + Awards. One of the nine categories was devoted to remix: “A film/video that is comprised of elements such as sound and picture of other works which then combines them to become a metamorphic work.” WinnerBREAKDOWN the video **2010 VIMEO AWARDS REMIX WINNER** from kasumi on Vimeo. kasumifilms.com BREAKDOWN, a mashup of thousands of public domain samples, is the... Read More

Unruled audiences, rogue curators: the case of Cine Falcatrua and the CortaCurtas film festival

Poster by Gabriel Menotti Abstract Media piracy play a big role in the configuration of the cultural scene of emergent countries such as Brazil, being one of the most intense points of contact between the local creative communities and global markets. Their effects are inevitably felt in national cultural institutions such as contemporary art museums and galleries on three different levels: a) in the work of artists that use these unauthorized circuits as a source of material... Read More

Remix as method: reconstructing western visual discourse on the 2009 Iranian post-election crisis

Abstracts The 2009 post-election crisis in Iran positioned Iranian unrest on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and innumerable blogs, as well as front pages, newscasts, and talk shows across the world, spurring both intense debate about the new genre of ‘snapshot’ citizen documentary and many attempts to influence the power struggle between Iranian authorities and the ‘green’ dissident movement. The combination of tight control of traditional media outlets’ access to the crisis,... Read More