Festival Schedule

Below is the schedule for RE/Mixed Media Festival, 2010. Admittedly, it’s a long day and there’s a TON of stuff to see/hear. We certainly don’t expect people to come for the whole thing (although you’re more than welcome to!) so advise picking and choosing carefully the things you’d like to attend. We’ve tried to group the events in a logical way with films and panels in the first half, building into an evening of music, lights, sounds and madness. Keep in mind that there are LOTS of other things to do, places to eat, and things to see in DUMBO, so don’t worry if things you’d like to see aren’t exactly contiguous.

Full bios and dedicated schedule page to be posted on the site later this week.

2:00 Opening champagne reception – meet n’ greet n’ get a seat. Mimosas for all who arrive at 2:00.

2:30 Opening remarks/Anti-keynote – Festival Director Tom Tenney, et. al.

2:45 Video Program 1: Remixing Politics & Culture – Political and social commentary on contemporary culture and politics from selected video remixers: Elisa Kreisinger, Jon McIntosh, Desiree D’Alessandro, Seth Indigo Carnes, Kat Green, Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung.

3:45 Artists Only Panel Discussion – Moderated by Deanna Zandt, author of the soon-to-be-released book, Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking. With panelists:

Elisa Kreisinger – Video remix artist
Christopher Weingarten – author of Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Seth Indigo Carnes – visual artist
Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk – songwriters and creators of newmusicaltheater.com
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung – photographer and video remixer
Moby – DJ, singer-songwriter, musician

Artists discuss the implications of remix culture, creative appropriation, and copyright reform as it directly relates to their work.

4:30 Film: Man With a Movie Camera, The Global Remake an interactive remix project that invites participation in a mashup of a 1929 film belonging to world cultural history. The work has been presented in 30 venues to date. It won Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category at Ars Electronica ’08, was presented at Transmediale ’09, File ’09, Media Forum at Moscow International Film Festival ’09, at the Montreal Biennial ’09, has been installed in museums and galleries worldwide -at Shang Elements Museum Beijing, Ueno Town Art Museum Tokyo, Pera Museum Istanbul amongst others, and screened on public LED displays in Manchester, Leeds, Norwich and Sheffield UK, Federation Square Melbourne Australia, e4c Seattle U.S.A. The film will be followed by a Q & A with the artist, Perry Bard.

6:00 World Famous Ricky Powell Slide Show - Ricky is best known as Def Jam’s unofficial chronicler and famously as the alleged fourth Beastie Boy during the group’s Licensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique era. In his slide show, Ricky will focus on photo/graffiti mashups he made in collaboration with some of the world’s best known graffiti artists.

6:30 Film: Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart – A re-enactment of its original 1936 screening.

7:00 Content ID, Remix, and Downfall Memes – with Elizabeth Stark & Kenyatta Cheese.

7:30 Extending Game Culture – Moderated by Josephine Dorado; with Paul Jannicola, Jesper Juul, Kerria Seabrooke, Matthew Hawkins. There’s more to game culture than playing games. Innovations within the game industry and the gamer community have sparked emergent forms of expression as well as an impressive amount of creative interaction and engagement. From the release of tools to make user-created content such as custom avatars and maps, to the addition of filmmaking tools, a large opening has formed in digital media through which gamers are showing that they are not just passive consumers, but engaged media makers.

8:15 1st Annual RE/Mixed Media Festival remix competition screenings – Robert Dohrmann, Matt Daly, Diran Lyons, Willam Scurry Jr., Fort/Da, Rachel Blackwell, Lili White, Ashleigh Nankivell, Adrian Romero. Videos will be judged by a panel of experts, and the winner will receive $500 cash prize at the end of the night.

9:15 Remixed Fashion Show – What is remixed fashion? Can remix be used by designers to create new looks? This is a question artist Elizabeth Pulos aims to tackle with the Remixed Fashion Show, which will feature the most creative mashed up looks we can find. Featuring designs from Arthur Arbit,Jojo Monson and Katie McKay with projections by Rachel Blackwell and beats by Karl Marx. Don’t miss this event – it’s sure to be a highlight of the festival!

9:45 Sweatshoppe - a new multimedia performance collaboration between Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw that works at the intersection of art, music and technology. The duo develops software to construct a totally unique interactive performance, and creates unique ways of affecting an audience. Whether it be as a dance driven electronic music performance that emphasizes sound reactive visuals, building interactive installations, or the fabrication of guerrilla technologies to augment public space, the duo strives towards an element of pop accessibility that is so often ignored in the technocentric world of experimental media.

10:15 Steinski - a renowned remixer since the early 1980’s. Starting in 1983, he co-produced, with his partner Double-Dee, the series of records known as The Lessons: analog tape cut-and-paste collages, still widely bootlegged (and wildly illegal). These records are generally acknowledged as three of the most influential works in the world of hip-hop and dance music production, and cited as definitive influences by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, and Fatboy Slim, among others. As a solo producer, he crafted The Motorcade Sped On, turning historic broadcasts of the Kennedy assassination into a hip-hop record, and has composed and produced dozens of soundtracks for various TV & radio commercials and industrial films.

11:00 Hobo Tech – a collective of electronic musicians in search of Lost America. Fueled by the independent spirit of America’s legendary Hobos, these artists create dance music that flies in the face of bottle-service pretentiousness and glorifies endless railroad adventure, half-smoked cigars and steaming cauldrons of stew.

11:30 Dance Party with DJ C-Tor and Dan Winckler -

12:00 Closing/Awards

Ongoing throughout the day:

Roots of Remix: A video installation that takes visitors through the history of remix/mashup – demonstrating that, far from being a new phenomenon, remix has been with us for centuries.

Silent Art Auction: The concept of remix is nothing new in the world of art. Artists as diverse as Duchamp, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Hannah Hoch and Richard Prince have all used cultural icons and found objects to comment on the society that produced them. The festival will feature an exhibition of painters, photographers and collage artists who we feel represent remix culture. All works will be available via silent auction to benefit RE/Mixed Media and the League of Independents.

Sponsor Tables: Several of LOFI’s friends, supporters and collaborators – including Open Video Alliance, Organization for Transformative Works, and Public Knowledge – will have tables set up in the balcony.

Midnight – 3AM AFTER PARTY at Re/Bar: 147 Front Street in DUMBO. Featuring Mad Happy – a futuristic electronic musical combo that throw everything (including baby) into their potent musical mix – blending electro, hip-hop, latin, eastern european and folk.