An international conference has taken place in Oxford that explores the role of audio-visual remix practices in contemporary digital culture.

Remix Cinema is a student-led initiative funded by the Beyond Text strategic research programme of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The concept of ‘remix’ describes a broad set of social and cultural practices centred around the fragmentation and re-ordering of already existing and new content, whether text, sound or images. The 2-day multi-disciplinary workshop has focused on these diverse creative practices, particularly in the context of the contemporary socio-technical media environment. It has brought together people interested in understanding and shaping remix cinema.

The Remix Cinema Workshop’s programme has been a mixture of talks by invited speakers and artists and selected presentations submitted in response to an open call.

Topics covered have included:
• ‘You make the movies’: Audiences as new filmmakers in the age of User generated content
• Fan-made film posters: remixing the experience of cinema and
• Women’s Images Re-Edited

The Remix Cinema Workshop is organised by the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford, UK) and members of the organizing committee are all doctorate candidates at various departments at Oxford University. The abstracts submitted by academics and artists as response to the call for proposals have been assessed by a review panel made up of faculty members of the Oxford Internet Institute.

This workshop is organised in collaboration with UNIA Prácticas y Culturas Digitales and it is supported by St. Antony’s College, Modern Art Oxford and the Instituto Cervantes.

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http://remixcinema.org/

For further information, please contact: Jake Gilmore – + 44 (0) 1793 41 6021, j.gilmore@ahrc.ac.uk  

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC): Each year the AHRC provides approximately £112 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from languages and law, archaeology and English literature to design and creative and performing arts. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,300 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK.

The Beyond Text research programme aims to support a multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners drawn from Higher Education, museums, galleries, libraries, business, policy, media, technology and the law to explore the ways in which communication is articulated, transmitted, received and controlled. It also aims to enhance the connections between those who make and preserve works, and those who study them.  Beyond Text centres on five thematic, interdisciplinary areas: Making and Unmaking; Performance, Improvisation and Embodied Knowledge; Technology, Innovation and Tradition; mediations; Transmission and Memory. These themes provide a framework to investigate the formation and transformations of performances, sounds, images, and objects in a wide field of social, historical and geographical contexts, tracing their reception, assimilation and adaptation across temporal and cultural boundaries. The programme has a budget of £5.5 million over 5 years and runs from 2007 to 2012. http://www.beyondtext.ac.uk/