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Festival Preview TOMORROW 2/25 at Lessig Event

by Tom Tenney on February 24, 2010

New York audiences will have an opportunity to sample some of the talent from this May’s RE/Mixed Media Festival, at a free simulcast of a Lawrence Lessig talk at Harvard, sponsored by the Open Video Alliance.

Immediately following the talk and Q&A, LOFI will present three (very) short video remixes by Elisa Kreisinger, Jonathan McIntosh, and Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung.  The evening will conclude with a DJ set by c-tor, accompanied by live visuals by VJ Dan Winckler.

The event, scheduled to begin at 6PM, is free and will be held at:

The Open Planning Project
148 Lafayette Street, Penthouse
NYC

We hope to see you there!

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RE/Mixed Media Festival Announces $500 Cash Prize

by Tom Tenney on February 18, 2010

RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 is pleased to announce the addition of Toxic Pop*-  one of NYC’s best known purveyors of underground cultural events in NYC since 2003 – to their roster of festival sponsors.  Toxic Pop has generously donated $500 to be awarded to one artists who submits the best video remix to the festival, as voted by a to-be-determined panel of experts.  All filmmakers, remixers, and video mashup artists are eligible, and the winner will be selected on the night of the festival.  Only artists who submit their video to the festival via the website or mail are eligible – established remixers invited by the festival curators will not be eligible unless they also submit additional work for consideration by sending different work along with a submission form and the requisite $10 submission fee.

*Toxic Pop is a NYC based production and promotion company, best known for the 6-year publication of their weekly newsletter.  Since 2003, Toxic Pop has been dedicated to promoting underground art in New York, and has produced a number of music, theater, and burlesque events at venues such as Bowery Poetry Club, The Cutting Room, The Delancey, Collective Unconscious and Surf Reality.

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RE/Mixed Festival Announces Date/Venue

January 19, 2010

All of us at lo-fi lounge are thrilled to announce that the RE/Mixed Media 2010 Festival will be held on Sunday, May 30th at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn NYC.   Located in a century-old horse stable on Brooklyn’s waterfront, Galapagos is a 10,000 square foot space – beautifully renovated with a state-of-the-art lighting, video [...]

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Copyright Criminals DVD Release Party 1/19

January 15, 2010

This Tuesday 1/19 8PM at Brooklyn Bowl:
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS Broadcast Premiere and DVD Release Party!
Special appearances by EL-P, ECLECTIC METHOD, MR. LEN and DJ SPOOKY.
Doors open at 8PM. Followed by the PBS Broadcast Premiere at 10PM.
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and [...]

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Festival Submission Deadline Extended to 3/31

January 14, 2010

Due to a number of concurrent circumstances (but mostly to allow more time to notoriously procrastinative artists), we are extending the deadline of the RE/Mixed Media Festival 2010 until March 31st, 2010. This date change is for submissions only – we are still planning the festival for late May 2010 and we should be [...]

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World’s Fair Use Day

January 11, 2010

Reminder: World’s Fair Use Day is tomorrow!  If anyone wants to take the bus down to DC with me tomorrow and talk about copyright law for 5 hours…let me know!
http://bit.ly/6LUtoe

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RE/Mixed Media Festival Guidelines Updated

November 29, 2009

Due to a number of inquiries, we have updated the festival guidelines to clarify the point that you may submit work that is remixed from your own original material, i.e. it does not have to be a remix of the work of others.
Also, we have updated the guidelines to specify that, because work used in [...]

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QuestionCopyright.org joins Re/Mixed Media 2010 as Official Supporter

November 5, 2009

QuestionCopyright.org, the online clearinghouse for new ideas about copyright, today threw their official support behind Re/Mixed Media Festival 2010, specifically noting the fact that we are soliciting “freely distributable works” for inclusion in the festival.  From their blog post:
It’s great that the festival is ensuring that the works they show be freely useable by others — remix [...]

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Hello://World;

October 16, 2009

Several weeks ago, during a Sunday at MOMA, my legs started to hurt – a (probably) psycho-somatic condition I have gotten every time I’ve been to a museum since childhood.  I was seeing the “In & Out of Amsterdam” exhibition and in an effort to sit and chill for a few minutes, I wandered into [...]

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