For anyone interested in new media art and/or remix, I’m very happy to share the latest issue of Media-N journal, which I guest edited with xtine burrough and Eduardo Navas.
The issue is called “Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix” and it can be downloaded in full here: https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/…/median/issue/view/88Special thanks to Paul O’Brien, Kelly McErlean, and Kevin Atherton for their recommendations and reviews, and to all our contributors for their fascinating and varied articles.
This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a recurring point of reference in the development of media culture. 1 Prior to terms such as new media, digital art, media art, and remix, Borges’s narrative exploration of bifurcation as a means of reflecting on the possibility of multiple simultaneous realities with no clear beginning or end has offered a literary and philosophical model for creative uses of emerging technology throughout the twentieth century. The essays included in this special issue provide a glimpse into the relation of Borgesian multiplicity and remix as an interdisciplinary methodology.
