Objective Proficiency p 62. Everything is a Remix. Extra Listening

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.



In a series of short films, director Kirby Ferguson has been gradually making the case that “Everything is a Remix” — that great art doesn’t come out of nowhere. Artists inevitably borrow from one another, drawing on past ideas and conventions, then turning these materials into something beautiful and new. The first film highlighted the role of remixing in literature in music. The second installment shifted the focus to filmmaking, while the third turned to technology, computers and user interfaces. In the fourth and final installment — “System Failure” — Ferguson makes the argument that ever-expanding copyright laws, despite what our Founding Fathers intended, now tilt in favor of corporate interests rather than the social good. And, more ominously, they threaten to put the brakes on an essential part of the creative process.



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