Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

Modernism and Media Production

This chapter contextualizes the premises of chance and randomness, analogical and digital code, material sampling and cultural citation, as well as the slippage of meaning in direct relation to the integral role that appropriation and remix play in the creative process since the early days of modern media. In what follows appropriation and remix are discussed in relation to all of these premises, which I contextualize according to modular principles and contemporary examples. Media production, as is currently understood, emerged during the first half of the twentieth century. For this reason, media production is the frame of reference for this chapter. Consequently, the purpose in this case is to evaluate how culture ...