Art, Media Design, and Postproduction: Open Guidelines on Appropriation and Remix

by Eduardo Navas

Overview

A concise guide to the creative application of appropriation and remix that offers a set of open-ended guidelines for art and design studio-based projects, this book explores creativity with emerging technology, including artificial intelligence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032510002
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/12/2025
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eduardo Navas is Associate Research Professor of Art and Digital Arts & Media Design, Associate Director of Access and Equity in the School of Visual Arts, and Research Faculty in the College of Arts and Architecture's Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He researches and teaches principles of cultural analytics, digital humanities, and emerging technologies. Navas is author and co-editor of several titles, including Keywords in Remix Studies (2017), The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities (2021), The Rise of Metacreativity: AI Aesthetics After Remix (2023), and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd edition (2025).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction

Part 1: Media Production

1. Randomized Signification – Elements for Exchange

2. Analogized Codification – Mashups of Image and Text

3. Sampling Creativity – Material Sampling and Cultural Citation

4. Vectorial Pixels – Visual Aesthetics of Binary Code

5. Bifurcated Meaning – Infliction of Statements

Essay: Modernism and Media Production

Part 2: Metaproduction

6. Domesticated Noise – Manipulation of Sound

7. Visual Aurality – Image and Sound as Data

8. Versioning Time-Based Media – Reedits of Video and Sound

9. Time-Based Media in Physical Space – Loops in Video and Sound Installations

10. The Assemblage Gaze – Of Media and Humans

Essay: Postmodernism and Metaproduction

Part 3: Postproduction

11. Media Mashups – Appropriation and Remix of Image, Sound, and Text

12. Regenerative Motion – Correlated Time Based Media

13. Regenerative Data – Aesthetics of Data Driven Objects

14. Distributed Collaboration – Collective Work Across Networks

15. Aesthetics of Negation – The Selective Process

Essay: The Prefix and Postproduction

Index

Editorial Reviews

"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

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