Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

Eduardo Navas teaches on the principles of cultural analytics and digital humanities at The Pennsylvania State University, researching the creative and political role of recyclability and remix in art, media and culture. He has lectured across the US, and has published two books on remix studies.

"Art, Media Design, and Postproduction is the perfect synthesis of practice and theory. It provides sensible guidelines and engaging exercises in the aesthetics of remix and appropriation. It also offers a sophisticated framework for appreciating the history and theory of remix. An indispensable text for every theorist, artist, or designer interested in this key aspect of contemporary media culture." -Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology"This collection of writings on the immensity of remixing, sampling, collage and the other recombinant arts is sly, fresh, and relentlessly engaging. It reaffirms the resiliency of the artistic imagination in an era of digital overload. Read it as a guide for the perennially optimistic in a very cynical and dark time." -Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky"In this ground-breaking book, Eduardo Navas puts Remix Theory to work, providing readers with a practical guide to thinking remix by doing remix. He expertly stages innovative engagements with content creation practices that are designed not just to be read but to be used and reused in new and revealing ways." -David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionPart 1: Media Production1. Randomized Signification – Elements for Exchange 2. Analogized Codification – Mashups of Image and Text 3. Sampling Creativity – Material Sampling and Cultural Citation4. Vectorial Pixels – Visual Aesthetics of Binary Code5. Bifurcated Meaning – Infliction of StatementsEssay: Modernism and Media ProductionPart 2: Metaproduction 6. Domesticated Noise – Manipulation of Sound 7. Visual Aurality – Image and Sound as Data8. Versioning Time-Based Media – Reedits of Video and Sound9. Time-Based Media in Physical Space – Loops in Video and Sound Installations10. The Assemblage Gaze – Of Media and HumansEssay: Postmodernism and MetaproductionPart 3: Postproduction11. Media Mashups – Appropriation and Remix of Image, Sound, and Text12. Regenerative Motion – Correlated Time Based Media13. Regenerative Data – Aesthetics of Data Driven Objects14. Distributed Collaboration – Collective Work Across Networks15. Aesthetics of Negation – The Selective ProcessEssay: The Prefix and PostproductionIndex