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Embracing creative transience: From political remix video to digital collage

Lyons, Diran

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Title
Embracing creative transience: From political remix video to digital collage
Author(s)
Lyons, Diran
Issue Date
2021-02
Keyword(s)
  • Political
  • Remix
  • Video
  • Digital Collage
  • Critical
Date of Ingest
2022-01-04T02:35:45Z
Abstract
In this essay, I explore my latest series of digital collages titled Notes and Narratives. These works utilize additive, subtractive, and substitutive remix strategies to integrate Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque paintings with visages of Donald Trump and his associates. The series appropriates historical masterworks to interrelate the theologico-political foundations of the original paintings with the political turbulence experienced under the Trump administration.  Notes and Narratives foregrounds remix as a powerful and potent tool for disruption, change, and communication in the continuum of pedagogic praxes and remix studies. My previous artistic work was dedicated to creating political remix videos, and this body of work represents a fork in my creative practice. The immediacy of the collages draws upon intertextuality and remix strategies to reveal passionate polemical positions, positing contentious criticisms of the political leadership in the United States.
Series/Report Name or Number
Media-N, vol. 17, issue 1
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112918
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i1.500
Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2021 Diran Lyons
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Media-N V17.1 2021: Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix PRIMARY
Volume 17 Issue 1