A provocative textual performance that is at once a dazzling model of the literary remix and a state-of-the-art reflection on remix culture, REMIXTHEBOOK captures the unique and continually shifting digital moment in which we live and situates the remix as an art form and literary intervention. To coincide with the publication of REMIXTHEBOOK, Amerika will launch a companion website, remixthebook.com, to facilitate new ways of participating in remix culture by inviting other artists and writers to create remixthebook mashups of their own, pushing the boundaries of art and literary culture further, beyond the current publishing paradigms.
Video Remix: Rick Silva
Audio: Chad Mossholder
Micro-Cam Footage: Mark McCoin
Voice: Mark Amerika
"Think of remixthebook as DJ Tool made from rhythms downloaded, ripped, mixed, spliced, diced, and burned into our collective hard drives, then re-uploaded. It's a piece of conceptual hardware that exists somewhere between how we experience information and how information aesthetics has transformed the human condition. It's that deep."
—Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid
MORE INFO: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/remixthebook
"A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media?" Library Cloth edition $60? Bollocks, more like! I'd rather wipe my virtual ass with (select) pages torn from old Jean Baudrillard screeds. More academic rocks stars need a healthy slap around the face and head. They've giving Postmodernism a bad name ;-) Love & Theory, Henry Swanson
HenrySwanson420 5 months ago