Christine took us on a tour of the remix work in which she has been participating – lead by Randy Adams (runran).

 

The remix basically takes creative work produced by others within the group and remixes it in different ways.  This includes flash work, static pictures and sound.  The remix is based around a blog, which forms a creative conversation in both images and words, showcasing recent work.  Remixers have to reference the sources, so that the audience can trace the evolution of a piece through the history of the blog.

 

She showed us examples of her original work and her remix creations.  The source files are also posted on the blog so that other members of the group can download this material in order to create a remix.  The group ethic towards each others work seems really open and pieces get worked and reworked, producing pieces that include many layers of different people’s work.

 

One piece “Picasso’s Point” was constructed out of code, rather than existing as a picture file, so you can go behind and look at the source code to see how it works.  This harks back to one of the lectures last year in Lab, which lead to my post Code of Ideas.  Christine remixed this image by animating it, which was then in term remixed in several ways.  The whole project hinges on artistic responses to work, rather than critical responses – and this drives the work of the group forward and creates more.  This seems quite an organic process of creation – almost like minimalist music gradually changes with each repetition.  The piece “Machine_Language” actually works in this way as well, so this evolution is both internal to the pieces and external in terms of the structure in which they sit.

 

Chris did lead the discussion into whether this kind of idea might work using Comment Press to create a kind of Frankinstein story – remixing text work in the same way as remix works with artistic images.  Again, we ended up in the monetizing conversation, but that seems to be an important issue that we need to explore further, but that’s the same with artists of all shades… sigh!

 

There was (and is) an awful lot of awe for Christine in terms of her tremendous output and development of her technical skills over the last year – which has been phenomenon.  Her blog, including a showcase of her work, is well worth a look:  crissXcross