My remediation became a little bit of a challenge for me.  I had the idea to do exactly what Zack did during our interview for the audio and video documentary.  He drew while we spoke, interpreting our words into his drawings (kind of), producing something from our conversation.  I decided to do the same, with a medium I was familiar with - papercutting.  Normally, when I make a papercut, or anything for that matter, a lot of planning goes into the image.  In this case, I decided to work spontaneously, cutting the paper in abstract shapes, following a nonrepresentational pattern.  I stopped my work at certain points in the conversation to document what I had completed, and originally I was going to include the times that I stopped working.  I decided against this because I didn't want my audience to match my work to the conversation, in the same way I didn't want my audience comparing my video and audio documentaries.  

I took the images and compiled them into a short video to show the progression.  

For my remix project, I decided to use images rather than video.  As much as I've talked about my interest in images and their interpretations and meanings, I hadn't really used images - just video and audio.  So I took images from some of my favorite artists with work that has heavily influenced my own work in the studio.  I included Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, and Damien Hirst, among others (check them all out they're so amazing!!!).  The images were compiled into a mini video to show the similarities among the works, specifically grids and circles.  So the remix takes away the individual's need to make and instead remixes similar images together to create new comparisons between the works of these different artists.  

Along with the visual component, I added the audio of a man named POGO, who remixes popular disney movies, among other things.  Because he doesn't own any of these movies or sounds, he technically can't sell them, so he puts them on youtube for free.  I think POGO's music fits right in with the discussion we've had about plagiarism versus the remix.  I also happen to listen to POGO a lot in the studio, so I thought his music would be a good fit.  The song is called "Alice" and is a remix of sounds from the movie "Alice in Wonderland".

This is the audio that originally came from my interview with my friend, and fellow artist, Zack Lee.  I enjoy listening to the audio separately because I think expectations that come with a visual and audio together are gone.  So anyone can listen to the audio and decide whether they agree or not with what Zack and I are saying without following the video of Zack drawing.  I'm also interested in the importance of the visual and audio begin together as it was originally.  Do they need to be together to draw meaning from them? What is the importance of drawing them apart, and what new meaning can come from viewing the video and listening to the audio separately? 

 I interviewed my friend and fellow artist Zack Lee (check him out!) on his thoughts on images, symbols, and meaning over definition. I separated the audio from the visual because I was interested in the way they portrayed meaning alone rather than together. What can be found in the video of Zack drawing, knowing that his drawing is coming from our conversation on these topics, and vice versa. I don't know how effective the video is without the audio, but that's something I've been investigating during this project. Enjoy, Zack is a great artist!