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Remix, recombination, patchwork, recycling, rewriting, montage, recomposition. |
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The recombination of materials is a practice which in the plastic arts has traditionally been associated with the collage, above all in regards to fixed images, painting or photography. In regards to the digital realm, however, upon including the temporal element, this practice is much more linked to the notion of cinematographic montage as pioneered by Sergéi Eisenstein. To him montage was “an idea which arises from the dialectic collision between two entities independent of each other.” Couldn´t we envision as a kind of montage the remix of what browsers produce as they provide us with a constant mix of text, images and sounds on our screens? |
Amy Alexander Started at the time when web cameras began to proliferate worldwide, the Multi-Cultural Recycler invites the public to take part in a voyeurism which is no longer merely passive or limited to the simple exercise of watching: it is geared towards intervention, and the mixing and remixing of the material that these remote surveillance cameras send to her computer. Selecting two or three cameras at random or choosing mixes made previously by another user, the Recycler embarks on a digital processing of the images in order to offer us a final result. Igor Stromajer Characterised by aesthetics which evoke a post-Cold War era in which the side-effects of that war continue to be present on the Internet, re:volution offers itself to us as a machine, a platform for the public to use to comfortably drive the revolution. This is a revolution which, according to the words of our guide, a child named GTA (Great Teacher and Astronaut), has still not been successful, and for which we must keep fighting, armed with out powerful new weapon of war: e-mail. Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto This work by Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto offers us a split, fragmented, impossible dance in a divided, multiplied space. Cyberdance consists in the combination and re-combination of elements which represent the different parts of the human body. A mannequin was photographed as a model in different positions. These images were later converted into animated form, allowing the users to combine them in different ways, as well as link them to the different dance terms, the names of the postures and classical ballet positions. On a page divided into frames containing fragments of the mannequin, we can see her head, legs, torso and arms revolve, while simultaneously allowing us to subdivide each frame by clicking on it, each frame composing an aberrant doll whose fragments dance, silently, independent of each other. There is no music or rhythm, neither is there any space. It is a digital dance, a dance in which time and space have been transformed into a platform. Stanza This version belongs to the Genomixer series in which the artist’s own decoded DNA information was re-combined and converted into images and sounds, as well as simultaneously forming generative code algorithms, a method which the artist then used to create different works. Daniel Jacoby This video by Daniel Jacoby has been created using the first ten minutes of a speech by Hugo Chávez as its base. The speech has been split into sections, word by word, and rearranged in alphabetical order. Daniel Jacoby As in his work Excerpt from President Hugo Chavez’s speech, Jacoby creates a tension between two methods of ordering, and presents us with a new vision corresponding to the results obtained from this reordering. In this case, he takes all the characters from the Time New Roman font, and orders them according to the space occupied by each one. While in the work based on Chávez’s speech the reordering process led to a loss of meaning, in this case we could say that the ordering by size and the lack of meaning provided by an alphabetical order, presents the viewer with at least one possible interpretation. Tension grows as the symbols, at first small, gradually fill the screen. This is a narrative in which the letters have lost their function, becoming images. They have been transformed into images which no longer serve to form words. They are letters which do not know how to read or write: waiting in line, ordered from tallest to smallest, they are like pupils in a school. Darren Solomon Bb 2.0 allows us to simultaneously experience the roles of both listener and director. We are presented with a grid of videos uploaded to YouTube which we can play, raising or lowering the volume as desired. Solomon asked the users of his blog to record the videos used, defining certain parameters such as the use of the key B flat major, leaving long silences between phrases, and during the recording itself listening to a mix which the artist had composed. Lucas Bambozzi Increasingly, keywords seem to want to govern and organize our daily lives. They have become a kind of language without grammar, without modalization, dissonance, or doubt. They are isolated names which describe our environment, ourselves. YouTag offers us a device which, using the tags which describe the videos uploaded to YouTube as a starting point, allow us to suggest two words and generate a remix which superimposes the resulting videos. |
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