FILM 3105 - Remix Media

5 credit hours
This class focuses on the study and creation of works of “remixed media.” We will consider the practice of “recycling” images and sounds, a characterization that suggests a certain economy and the possibility of finding new use for that which has been discarded, a use perhaps not intended by the original “owner” or “creator.” We will explore the history of the “found object,” collage, appropriation, sampling, remix, as well as issues of authorship and originality, ownership, cultural critique, autobiography, historiography, parody, and other relevant issues through the work of historical and contemporary media makers. While this is a creatively focused (post)production course, we will take an integrated “critical practice” approach to our subject. This means we will develop our capacities as media thinkers, engaging course content from a theoretical, ethical, and historical perspective, while also acquiring the craft and technical skills required to grow as media makers. The “critical practice” approach to this course is about learning how to think and create in a techno-cultural digital landscape in which media images are everywhere and producible by everyone, and as a result, their intent, value, and meaning, has become increasingly unstable and contested.