This one-day event – delivered as part of the AHRC funded Tracking IP Across the Creative Technologies project – will explore key contributions to the field of remixing, restyling and repurposing existing audiovisual material (sourced from archives, and both the commercial and public domains) in contemporary filmmaking practice.
Featuring critically and/or politically motivated examples alongside artistic and creative narrative driven experimentations, speakers at the event present and consider these works alongside established film industry practices through the lens of intellectual property.
A panel of creators, academics and IP law specialists from the UK, US and EU will debate the opportunities, challenges and futures of audiovisual content reuse in the context of the currently shifting sands of territory specific intellectual property legislation set against the wider backdrop of the global digital economy.
Confirmed speakers and panelists:
Francesca Coppa is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College and a founding member of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit established by fans to provide access to and preserve the history of fanworks and culture. She is currently editing a collection of fanfiction and writing a book on fan music video.
Desiree D’Alessandro is a contemporary artist and digital media educator from Tampa, Florida. Her artworks have been exhibited internationally at venues including Push/Play: A Survey of Recent Video Art(IL), Electronics Alive(FL), Re/Mixed Media Festival(NY), MEDIAWAVE International Film & Music Gathering(Hungary), Experiments in Cinema(NM), Rhizomes(FL), Open Online Two hosted by Fermynwoods Contemporary Art(UK), European Media Art Festival(Germany), Rogue Political Remix Festival(CA), and more. She has been published with Routledge, Transformative Works and Cultures, and presented at diverse conferences including Digital (De-)(Re)Territorializations(OH), Media Fields: Contested Territories(CA), Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, and the Open Video Conference (NY). www.desiree-dalessandro.com
Dr. Owen Gallagher is a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (2014) and has published a number of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers on remix culture, intellectual property and visual semiotics. He is the founder of TotalRecut.com, an online community archive of remix videos, and a co-founder of the Remix Theory & Praxis seminar group. Owen received his PhD in Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and is a lecturer of web media (filmmaking, animation, game design) at Bahrain Polytechnic.
Daniel Herbert is an associate professor in Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. His research examines the relationships between the media industries, geography, and cultural identities. He is author of Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (UC Press, 2014). His essays appear inCanadian Journal of Film Studies, Creative Industries Journal, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, as well as in several edited collections.
Diran Lyons’ political remix videos have been featured by numerous news outlets, including Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Huffington Post, Mashable, MSN, NY Magazine, SF Weekly, Slate, TIME, Vanity Fair, Wired, and the IMDb most popular short film ratings, where he was the first remix artist ever to reach #1. His remix work has been presented at Ars Electronica, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and ROFLcon at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lyons’ viral video 99 Problems (Explicit Political Remix) won the Pirate Flix Video Remix contest, juried by Cory Doctorow. www.youtube.com/user/DiranLyons
Richard Misek is a film theorist and montagist. His essay film Rohmer in Paris (2013) has screened at over twenty film festivals on five continents, and at venues including the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the BFI and Barbican (London), and the Museum of Moving Image and Anthology Film Archives (New York). He is currently Principal Investigator on the ARHC project, ‘The Audiovisual Essay: a digital methodology for film and media studies’. He lectures in digital arts at the University of Kent. http://www.rohmerinparis.com
Graham Rawle is an internationally renowned writer and collage artist and lectures in visual communication at the University of Brighton. Graham’s visual work incorporates illustration, design, photography and installation. His weekly ‘Lost Consonants’ first appeared in the weekend Guardian in 1990 and ran for 15 years. He has produced other regular series for the press, while his book Woman’s World has been celebrated world-wide.
Julia Reda has been a Member of the European Parliament representing Germany since 2014. She is Vice-President of the Greens/EFA group and the president of the Young Pirates of Europe. She has declared to make copyright reform her focus for the legislative term. https://juliareda.eu/en/
Prof. Charlotte Waelde is Professor of Intellectual Property Law. Her focus is on the interface between intellectual property law and changing technologies, the changes in the law wrought by those technologies, and the impact that those changes have on the way that the law is both perceived and used by the affected communities. Prof. Waelde is the IP consultant on the TRI-PACT project. http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/staff/waelde/
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- King’s College London – Strand London WC2R 2LS GB – View Map
Hilary Williams – Organizer of Cinematic Bricoleurs: Remixing, restyling and repurposing in contemporary filmmaking practice
These sessions have been devised and are facilitated by the TRI-PACT project, an AHRC-funded initiative led by the University of Brighton.
TRI-PACT, the Tracking Intellectual Property Across the Creative Technologies project has been designed to advance the research agenda and to stimulate creative and strategic thinking around the management, protection, sharing, access, use and reuse of Intellectual Property within and across the technology-rich creative domains of Film, Broadcast and Games. The TRI-PACT project draws together a group of key stakeholders (practitioners, researchers, educationalists, industry partners, archivists and legal specialists) to rethink and re-imagine current IP structures within Film, Broadcast and Games production toward a new enabling model of IP management and protection that facilitates cross-media sharing, access, use and reuse.