In the summer term 09 I offer a seminar on Visual Sampling as a cultural practice at the media science course at University of Siegen, Germany.

“Digital Media offer the discrete description of cultural products, every composition of images, sounds and words can be deconstructed into zeros and ones. The recontextulization of the small entities of meaning (sample/loop) to a new remix is mostly known from music, especially DJing. In this course the perspective on sampling will be expanded and focussed onto the visual aspects of the matter.
The medium Internet hasd changed the circumstances for remix works. Archives like YouTube provide an unlimted memory of forms,  from which the remixer draws both his inspiration and his material. Besides this changes in production and distribution we will also discover the social processes of the web, because the dynamics of the remix culture are influenced by referencing onto each others works.”

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