Notes
Get the bible on a usb keychain. Check it out here as well.
I came up with the idea to have my students remix Night of the Living Dead and in thinking about, I wondered what other good public domain material would be good for remix. I’m thinking that the good options would be: the bible, books, other films, public domain imagery, and previous public domain classics.
Project Gutenberg, the PD sections of archive.org, NASA’s image archives and the Library Of Congress’s image archives are all good. Wikimedia Commons has more modern PD material, eg images from Voice Of America. The Featherstone blog has examples of more unusual material, such as the USAF PD image archive.
The King James Bible is under perpetual crown (royal) copyright in the UK so UK remixers beware. And remember that the typography in modern reprints of PD works may be copyrighted even if the underlying text isn’t.
Here’s a cool recent example of a remix workshop:
Remix Reading and RUSU writing society get surreal
That’s Reading the town (”redding”), although they are remixing reading (”reeding”) in this instance as well.
Comment by Rob Myers — December 9, 2005 @ 4:58 pm
Yes, so much good content for mixing. I want to spend some more time on our Open Source Art syllabus.
We should propose some sort of remix project for ISEA or some other festival. It would also be cool to have a series of art shows called Public Domain or the like, where works in the public domain are displayed.
Comment by jon — December 10, 2005 @ 5:47 pm