In Internet Art & Culture class, we talked about collaborative art making. Here’s one of the works we looked at: Remixthebook by Mark Amerika. I briefly discussed the idea of remixing in my work, and I think this piece by Mark Amerika would kind of illustrate what the idea of remixing is about.

Some info about the work:

remixthebook author Mark Amerika, along with co-curator and artist Rick Silva, has invited over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, to sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters.
Go to the remixes>

Remixing gives new meaning to an existing piece of work. It builds a collective narrative, and allows the work to be a communication tool, by inviting other people to lend their own voices to the work.

I think for my project, the term remixing also have other meanings.

• It’s more than just an introspective throwback: it’s the outcome of challenging myself to work with something old and give it a new lease of life.
• Remixing as part of my artistic identity: I take what I’ve learned over the course of my life and appropriating these skills for the project. For example, painting over my material, photographing significant places, glitching up my blog. Am I an illustrator? No. Am I a programmer? No. Am I a photographer? Hell no. But remixing using these techniques demonstrate my chapalang (mishmash, random) artistic identity
• It’s kind of like a conversation/mash up with my self. Like for the Internet Monsters project that I did, I try to put my old work in another context. I think that’s the fun part of the project too. It’s not just about putting old stuff out there and be all like ‘hey look what I made in year 2007″. Kind of like collaborating with myself. What can Beverley from 2007 and Beverley from 2015 make together?