Remix PowerPoint Explaination

Slide One:

Nothing is new, everything is old elements used to create new ideas.

(picture of a wheel to a carriage to a car)

Slide two:  A remix is simply something that takes an idea or concept and augments or changes such an idea for better or worse.

Slide three:  However, a modern definition of Remix culture simply goes beyond changing old ideas.

In todays world, creation and publication have never been easier.  (youtube, blogger, etc.)

We’ll use an example to explain:  The example of the Hope Obama poster (I’ll explain this)

Slide Four:

Where copyright was once mainly exercised on corporations, meant as a means to protect rather than imped individual creativity, today the amateur creator finds themselves under attack.

Slide Five:

Remix Culture realizes that society can either go two ways, a “read/only” society where things are created by a few elite then simply viewed by the public with no more effort than admiration.  OR

A “read/write” culture where people are encouraged to add on to ideas and develop their own branches based on an idea.  This perspective is remix culture.

Slide Six:

So why not Creativity?

Copyright infringements

Misdirection

Graphic Material

A complete strain on the economic system

Slide Seven:

So, can remix actually serve a good purpose?

(explain the basis of our idea and show our prototype)