He defends himself against copyright laws because he thinks that: Of course the usage of material that is already familiar to the public and has a certain amount of built in cultural meaning helps to create a more close relation with the public.
POLITICAL REMIX VIDEO TOOLS TV
Remixers are not critiquing the form mainstream media takes (as contemporary video art has done for decades) but rather borrowing and using it as a vehicle to deliver their own subversive messages.”Īctually, he tells us that the first time he did a Politic remix video was because he wanted to criticize the way that mass media were showing Iraq war in 2003, and how mass media had mixed the images of the war with a happy-go-lucky TV commercials.
POLITICAL REMIX VIDEO TOOLS MOVIE
Popular forms include: short news segments, TV ads, speech excerpts, movie trailers and music videos. “Political remix video works also utilize and embrace dominant media forms as the structure for their videos. New messages that may suggest to the viewer a critical way to see the world: Political remix video not criticize the way that mass media work, but it used them to send messages totally different from that which the media want to launch. The parody, satire and critical comments are the trends used in this new way of understanding politics and combat a passive culture. These video works also have the ability to help nurture a critical talk-back culture of resistance and liberation.”įor him, political remix videos help to create a more critical society with the status quo established by the traditional media or the politicians themselves. It has the potential to help us imagine a better more just society and help illuminate corruption, hypocrisy and injustice in our world. It is an increasingly popular and relevant form of remix that can at its best challenge dominant power systems, media and myths in our society, our culture and ourselves. “Political remix video is a process of Do It Yourself (DIY) cultural creation by transforming mass media fragments through re-cutting, recycling and re-framing messages. The text he wrote on the occasion of Ars Electronica Festival in Linz (Austria) which was published in the catalog of Ars Electronica 2008: A new cultural economy, is what I’m going to summarize because I think it is a good text which is focused on the positive things of political video remixes:
The activist, photographer and creator of Political remix video, Jonathan McIntosh is one of the sources that I’m going to use for my final work to Digital Culture subject because of his commitment and defense of remix culture. Political remix video and remix culture (positive and negative issues)
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