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WS18 Remix My Lit: Literary Remix

Meeting Room 1A

Reading and writing has always been a dichotomy in literature. The author sits on one side of the production process, toiling away in solitude to produce the manuscript which is read by many in solitude. But is there a more collaborative space for literature? Can your pages be read and written? Amy Barker, Remix My Lit and Elliott Bledsoe, Creative Commons Australia, invite you to cut, paste, tweak, twist, shuffle, add and republish as part of this remixable literature masterclass.

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Through the Clock’s Workings will be launched at the Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom Conference at Old Parliament House (OPH) in Canberra on Wednesday 27th May by Dr Terry Cutler (Cutler and Co Melbourne). The conference Keynote Speaker is Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University Law School.

Thank you to all of you who submitted remixes during the course of the project. Your stories will remain on the site and we encourage you to continue to experiment. The entire anthology can be remixed: the original stories, the remixes, and even the fonts. It will be available to purchase as a traditional hardcover book as well as a free electronic download.

Congratulations to the following writers who have had their remixes selected for publication alongside our original author contributors: Matthew Lowe, Sarah Xu, Ashley Hauenschild, Michelle Almirón, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Tessa Toumbourou, Sean Williams, Mark Lawrence, Amelia Schmidt, Amra Pajalic, Phillip Ellis, Kirk Marshall, and Angela Meyer.

The program, by Sarah L’Estrange, included interviews with author Cate Kennedy, remixer Amra Pajalic, a reading by Amy Vought Barker of her remix of Stefan Laszczuk’s short story The New Cage, commentary from Elliott Bledsoe on Creative Commons and even a special appearance by William S. Burroughs!

The episode, titled “Remix My Lit — literary mash-ups”, aired on 13 November and can be dowloaded here.

The class yeilded our first “fold in”: How to Domesticate a Pirate [paper fold pirate pop remix] by Scott-Patrick Mitchell. Scott-Patrick’s project ”The Trickster’s Bible” was also in town and all were invited to “track the Trickster through Newcastle’s streets, following a public trail of dirty Laundry… piece together the truth as poems, charms, curses and love-letters lead you into the broken heart of this city.”

Aden Rolfe chose to do a Burroughs style cut up with his How to Domesticate a Pirate [a mestic remix], Nick Lowe’s Mum showed us How you won’t be able to prevent yourself becoming a Domesticated Pakeha and John Jacobs used a combined constrained cross-out and cut-up technique to discover How to Romesticate a Pilot.

If the young lady with the big hat who didn’t have time to finish her “siren” remix is out there, don’t forget to email yours in too: anthology@creativecommons.org.au

Everyone else you have just over a week to get your remixes in before the October 19 deadline.

The end is nigh!

As part of the inaugural Brisbane Writers’ fringe event, Writing – The Fringe Festival 2008, Remix My Lit will be hosting a live literary remix session this Saturday from 8:00pm at Sling Bar in West End.

We want you. This is an interactive experience; we’re giving you the chance to be part of the performance. Get familiar with our esteemed authors and their short stories, then tear them to bits! Proof paras, snip sentences, tuck the text or cull characters. We want to see what you make out of these stories. They are all under a Creative Commons licence, so you’re allowed to play with the. Roll back your sleeves, this could get messy!

Do some creative cutting up on the night, or perfect your pruning precision in advance of time, but all your remixes will be incorporated into the live audio/visual set by local multi-media artists collapsicon and Simulcast. Plus, we’ll even consider anything you write for publication in the anthology alongside some of Australia’s best writers.

RE-MIX MY LIT – Re-mixable literature project
Date/Time: Saturday 20 September, 8.00 – 8.45pm
Where: Sling Bar, 153 Boundary Street, West End (map)

About collapsicon
collapsicon is Luke Ilett a mixed media artist who works with new media, video, game and instrument design. Producing music as collapsicon he creates a dark fusion of sci-fi, game boy and electro funk with a heavy influence of hip hop.

About Simulcast
Simulcast has been pushing pixels and invading eardrums throughout Australia since 2002. A one-man audiovisual assault unit, he produces cut ‘n’ paste beats, spooky soundscapes, ample samples and crunchy sub-rhythms all mixed live with video.

RML has received our first literary mash-up. Again, the Healing Tickle (the Way Black Glitters): A Mash-Up by Angela Meyer is a derivative work from Philip Neilsen’s Beowulf in Brisbane, Stefan Laszczuk’s The New Cage, Cate Kennedy’s Renovator’s Heaven, Lee Battersby’s Alchymical Romance, and “the author’s inevitably influenced, intertextual imagination…”

We think it’s rather special and should inspire you. If you haven’t checked out Angela’s blog LiteraryMinded, do yourself a favour… the author Antony Loewenstein calls her, “a highly engaged woman with a love of unconventional thoughts on books and new media”. Miss LiteraryMinded has blogged the recent Melbourne Writers Festival in her usual astute and highly entertaining style.

RML has also had our first exegesis written! The author Amelia Schmidt is taking a course on Hypertext theory at the University of Sydney and has written an exegesis about remixing Danielle Wood’s story How to Domesticate a Pirate. The exegesis is very insightful and we love this bit:

“Considering Remix my Lit as a narrative in itself as a whole website may not be the reader’s immediate reaction, as one is drawn in by the narratives of each individual story and remix. However, it is through this broader narrative of the website – its narrative which begins with the reader and ends with the reader, transformed Cinderella-like, in to a writer and finally, as the clock strikes midnight, in to a reader again.”

Best of all, Amelia has published her exegesis on the RML website under a (CC) BY-NC-SA licence so that you are free to remix her text (see our ABC POOL Post). Thanks Amelia!

And check out our first remix of a remix. Joel McCaffery has remixed Dreamless [Amigo Westbrook Remix] with his Dreamless [via Amigo Westbrook remix]. Nice work.

So jump up and down, get remixing, tell your friends, check out our existing remixes, including cut ups from the Melbourne Writers Festival masterclass and flash fictions via sms in Fed Square, and email your remixes to anthology@creativecommons.org.au.

And stay tuned for the exciting (and imminent) announcement of exactly which forward thinking Australian publisher will be publishing the remix anthology and releasing it under a Creative Commons licence!

VJ Michela will be performing a live AV set incorporating RML stories and remixes. To get your own remixes up on the big screen as part of the set, SMS your flash fiction/poetry/text (and your name) to our temporary number  or email to anthology@creativecommons.org.au. Hard copies of our remixable stories will be available on the day, or take advantage of the wireless access at the Square, and view or download them from your laptop.

All remixes submitted on the day will be considered for publication in the anthology alongside some of Australia’s best writers.

LiteraryMinded says, ”This is an absorbing novel and obviously well deserved its Vogel win. It should appeal to most sensibilities, old and young. There’s some resemblance to Charlotte Wood or Alex Miller, with a little more youthful swagger.”

Read the complete book review on LiteraryMinded here (stay tuned for an interview with Stefan) and you can get yourself a copy of I dream of Magda here.

Be the first to remix a brand new short story from Stefan called The New Cage for your chance to be published alongside him in the anthology.

“I owned my first budgie when I lived in the first house…”

Nine new short stories licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike licences have arrived from authors around the country. It’s now up to you to remix these stories, making sure to acknowledge the author, that your remix is not for commercial use, and your new work is available for others to remix.

Email your remixes to anthology@creativecommons.org.au before 31 August to have your story posted on the website and for the chance to be published in the hard copy anthology alongside your favourite author.

Want to know more about remixing literature? Join us at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival for Beyond Read/Write: A Literature Remix Masterclass with RML Project Leader, Amy Barker and Elliott Bledsoe, Project Officer, Creative Commons Australia: Friday 29 August 2008 from 9.00am – 11.00am at the Immigration Museum. It’s a free event but places are limited so book now by phoning 1300 722 211. Then bring your laptop or mobile phone and be part of a live multimedia remix event at Federation Square, Saturday 30th August 2008 from 3.30-5.00pm.