rscon5: remix (reform symposium conference)
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Originally shared online (Blackboard) at the Reform Symposium Conference (RSCON5) in July 2014. Please note that videos will not play but you may find them in my RemixED G+ community linked on title slide.TRANSCRIPT
the power of remix, mashup, + re-contextualization
in the classroom
@amyburvallamyburvall.com#RSCON5
open community
http://bit.ly/remixED
static links
categories! tons of resources
convo continues
History for Music Lovers aka “Historyteachers”
EVERYTHING IS A REMIX
“All ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources
Mark Twain
CREATIVITY= DERIVATIVE WORKS
@austinkleon
@austinkleon
#blackoutpoetry #steallikeanartist #showyourwork
…it turns out there was a 250 year history of finding poetry in the
newspaper…
…nothing is completely ORIGINAL -
…all creative work builds upon what came before.
PARTICIPATORY CULTURE
re-interpretation of a given work
1960s Jamaica > 1970s Bronx“Grandmaster Flash”
worked
purposed
imagined
designed
contextualized
@Braddo
Mom & daughter
Michael Jackson Meets Chinese Propaganda
Beowulf’s Grendel + Virginia Tech Shooterby Ginny Jackson
AutoTuned Symphony of Science
lists the influences
the exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine
“exquisite corpse”
Combinatorial Creativity in the Classroom
#burtonstory for MOMA
Tim Burton: Cadavre Exquis
“NOUN: an exquisite corpse with words”
William Burroughs, Naked Lunch
CUT-UP METHOD
Christian Verdun
Christian Verdun
or Fold Over Technique...
SERENDIPITOUS CREATIVITY
“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you
take them to.- Jean-Luc Goddard
CREATIVITY is...Intelligence
having
FUN
-albert einstein
PLAY
INNOVATION
FUN
PRODUCE CONSUME
MOVE BEYOND...
REITERATION
MOVE BEYOND...
REGURGITATION
MOVE BEYOND...
REHASHING
divergent thinking
@webmaker tools
Mozilla Xray Googles Remix Webpage
Mozilla Popcornmaker
remixparody
mashup
critiquetransmedia
sarcasm
“Livin’ in Pax Romana”/ “Vida Loca” parody
Visual Thinking: Remix TEXT or AUDIO
SketchIts @Braddo
post-it mural poetry @m00njumper
literary graffiti
emoji literature
book spine POETRY
we tried it: and REMIXED it
Thinglink offers remix!
NEW MEANING: film + archival footage remix
song lyrics to cartoons
what famous paintings really say
juxtaposition: make it vintage!
photo essays - weird laws, visualized
!I came across Miss Riding Hood
But what a change! No cloak of red, no silly hood upon her head.
She said, “Hello! And do, please note my lovely furry wolfskin coat!”
!A few weeks later in the wood…
- Roald Dahl
TWITTER AS SOURCE + FORUM
parody tweets / plays on words
Found # Poem
#lonely #crush #flirt #kiss #lust #love
#jealousy #heartbreak
#alone
blackout tweets @Braddo
METADATA SOMETHING
contextualization
Photoshop
@AncientTop40
@ScorpianDagger on Tumblr
click to play
Art meets Snapchat
art into architecture
“mimeme”
“imitated thing”
MEMETICS
Contemporary info-literacy must involve memes (or memetics) as to how information/ideas spread and why this is important.
Alec Couros, @courosa
Every spoof gives more power !to the original
Shepard Fairey, OBEY
the META of MEMES @dajbelshaw
the META of MEMES @dajbelshaw
the META of MEMES @dajbelshaw
synopsize synthesize
ESSENTIALIZE
minimalist movie posters
POEMS
NOVELS
HISTORICAL EVENTS
haiku plot summaries
SWB
S
T
omebody
anted
ut
o
hen
MICRONARRATIVES: historical /lit figures with Vine
RANDOMIZE
“4 things Template” by @alicekeeler
CROWDSOURCED CREATIVITY
KAPSUL: The Scream
STORYBIRD: “reverse” visual storytelling
@cogdog @jimgroom
@twoheadlines
image
video
news story
music sound speech
@hitRECord
“Character Collaboration”
STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
