Leave No Trace » Remix

Recode

Alec — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:21:04 +0000

The Decode exhibition at the V&A in London recently finished. It wasn’t perfect (see Caru’s review on this blog, the review in The Times, and an article by Rhizome) but it was definitely interesting, and highly relevant to the Leave No Trace exhibition.

One of the many activities associated with the exhibition was Recode Decode: the opportunity to remix the exhibition’s ident created by Karsten Schmidt, with the winner’s submission being displayed on screens in London Underground stations.

This is a great idea, and a lot of remixes are appearing in various places on the web in addition to the V&A’s website, especially Flickr and Vimeo, so it seems to have captured people’s imaginations.

http://vimeo.com/10885776

http://vimeo.com/9590019

http://vimeo.com/9496288

http://vimeo.com/8658509

http://vimeo.com/8636469

http://vimeo.com/8217274

http://vimeo.com/8217357

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ambgab/4262661874/in/pool-13813978@N00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dietapete/4193219903/in/pool-13813978@N00

I wonder if we could borrow and adapt this idea for our exhibition?

Collaborations

bitjam — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:35:15 +0000

Hello it’s Carl from the bITjAM, the Leave No Trace project is a fantastic idea and opens up so many possibilities. Over the last 3 years we have seen great many new and aspiring digital artists around the area and there’s hope that we can develop more useful collaborations (especially in a live performance space) during the lead up to this project.

Remix

Alec — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:12:36 +0000

One of the aims of the Leave No Trace project will be to ask local artists and students to respond to a particular piece of commissioned work. There will be a twist, however. Those whose work is accepted will be asked to allow others to reuse and rework their digital pieces. All that’s some way down the road yet, but there’s a similar challenge going on right now at Create Digital Motion. Everyone is invited to rework any of the visual elements in an animation that has been released under a minimal Creative Commons licence.

There aren’t many rules, but the time available is short, so why not get started, just for some practice if nothing else? You could argue that digital mashups are the ultimate in post-modernist deconstruction.