How does remediation connect to your personal life? Have you ever conducted a remediation without knowing it? How so? When? What was your purpose and your process?
All my life I try to remediate the styles of those who inspire me, whether is through storytelling, filmmaking, music, or poetry. I have learned that the best artist have copied their idols, and I have always believed that is the best way towards success. I have probably conducted thousands of remediation in my life without knowing it, probably mostly as a child. Playing pretend games using Indiana Jones, Star Wars, or a John Ford western or war film as the basis of the game. My purpose for remediating is to find my own style that is effective and enjoyable to my audience. My process is to study the piece of work, like for a film shot by shot, for a story line by line, and for music lyric by lyric. I look for the roots of my inspiration and try to find what they saw in another persons work. I go back all the way to the beginning and study what they were trying to say. I believe remediation is the only way that someone can find their own voice. Believe it or not, but even Hunter S. Thompson remediated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by rewriting the novel to find his own voice. So I believe that remediation is the only way an artist can create their own style.
Remediation connects with me because in highschool in a class I had called BDTV, our school's television program, we constantly remediated things. Many projects included things such as taking a music video and recreating it to become our own, hence "remediating" it. I'm sure that I have remediated things without knowing it many times before. Everyone remdiates whether they may realize it or not because something as simple as dressing up to resemble another person, Halloween for example is a form or remediation. When I remediated things like music videos in highschool we watched videos and did what we could to put our spin on things to make it our own, while still making sure the audience was able to relate the two videos.
Remediation has become a way of self expression. It helps artists to form their own style by being inspired by other artists and incorporating the works of the inspirers into their own. Remediation for me has definitely become a form of self expression. I like to sketch and will often use pictures or photographs as reference to create my own drawings. I'm able to convey what I'm interested in by doing so. Also, I have remediated many television shows by creating a parody of the show with friends. We took to gist of the show and remediated it to attract an audience who enjoyed to laugh. Doing such things through remediation not only help an artist develop their own style, but also, I believe of sense of who they are, or their personality. By feeding off of what others are doing, we are able to see what we like and don't like. Some call this inspiration, but inspiration has to come from what has already been created. In my opinion, remediation is not a new technique, but rather has been practiced since the beginning of mankind. We try to mimic those around us to draw a crowd or to "be cool." As such, remediation does not only apply to rhetoric, but to life.
Remediation is the act of taking all of the content of one media and turning into another media, according to Bolter and Grusin. We all do this countless times throughout our lives, whether we are aware of it or not. A time when I remediated that immediately comes to mind is in elementary school. We would reenact stories and convert them into plays that our fellow classmates and parents would watch. We were taking content from a print genre and turning it into a theatrical performance. I did not realize that I was remediating then, as an eight year old, but now it is apparent that I was contributing to a remediation. All of the students in the class would have to memorize their lines, and we would all design costumes and back drops for the scenes. Our purpose was to entertain our audience. With a text, a person can only visualize a scene within his mind. With a play, there is a visual representation right in front of the person, and he can identity with the characters and scene in a realistic way. That is the benefit of remediating: new perspectives are born through different forms of media. Now when I remediate, there is a more deliberate thought process behind it, and I do it for a certain effect. Like with this project, there is a specific purpose and audience that I will be appealing to with my remediation that is slightly different from the purpose of the original media.
Remediation plays a large part in the creation of culture. There are often more than one versions of a song or movie or sometimes even books. This is where I am connected to remediation. Movies like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings are both remediations of books I enjoy. They both had an effect on my writing style, imagination and opinions. Other types of remediations, such as when song lyrics include the story line of a short story or poem, also connect me to the practice. Like many other people, I took a T.V. Production class in high school which allowed me to practice remediation first hand. I worked with fellow students to reenact historical events in a comical manner or expand on a short comic strip we had found on the internet and create a film. When I write or sketch in the present day, I am often influenced by a song lyric or concept from something I have read and include it in what I’m working on. In a broad sense, I consider my process to follow a basic pattern: exposure to the primary work, analysis of the material (whether a conscious effort or not), inclusion in something else I’m working on therefore changing the medium, and putting some finishing touches on my work to make it my own while maintaining the original work’s characteristics enough to keep it recognizable. This process happens often since everything I experience has an effect on me, whether intentionally or not. Though, I suppose that is the purpose of anything composed, so there really isn’t any escaping it.
Remediation has always played a central role my creation.Art projects as a child were aimed at turning real-life things into artisitc elements of expression. For example, in second grade, I made a chinese dragon puppet out of a milk jug for a dragon puppet-parade project. To me, this was just arts and craft, but I was really changing images I had seen into a 3-dimensional sculptural puppet. In sixth grade, I used putty stuff to build a koala hanging onto a piece of branch to help represent Australia in the school's Multicultural Fair. Again, I was transforming images I saw on the internet, as well as personal memories from zoos and such, into a sculpture. Everything we create is a remediation, from a kindergartener's crayon remediation of a house, flowers, and sun to an undergraduate's essay remediation of their class's discussion of a literature book.
Nothing can be pure content; at the most basic level, you are always remediating from thought and ideas to a physical medium; something is always lost in translation. You can never quite capture the same thing you were thinking, but different mediums allow you different affordances when seeking to communicate the original thought mediation.
Most of the time when remediating, you aren't even aware of it! You simply aim to communicate your ideas, using the models of the medium nad genre you have chosen to use.
Remediation is something I have been familiar with for a long time with out realizing it. In high school I was a vocalist and musician and it was common for those in my class to attend competitions in the hopes of receiving critical feedback from professionals. We would receive two songs on sheet music and it would be our job to learn the notes and interpret the lyrics how we wanted the audience to take them. In this sense I was remediating a print medium (the sheet music) and transforming into something that needed to be heard and experienced by the audience. The purpose behind this remediation was to add a layer of emotion that could not be experienced by simply reading the music. The human voice can convey so much power and emotion that text can not. Every voice is unique in it’s own way, through the process of making a song your own you can remediate it to fit your own needs.
I feel like remediation is something that surrounds us in our daily lives. It has become such a vital part of our culture, to take one form of media and turn it into another form. I especially noticed it in high school, when we would finish reading a novel for my literature class and then watch the movie version of it. There was even a unit on Shakespeare's Othello, and after reading the play we compared two different film versions. I myself can't remember a time when I personally remediated something but I am an active participant in remediation everytime I read a book before I go see the film. I think the book is always better, but I enjoy comparing the text to the motion picture to evaluate the parts the keep/change/leave out etc.
Remediation is everywhere. I find it particularly present in the worlds of film and literature. As an avid reader, I’m always interested to see how directors adapt books into movies. Although (in my opinion) books are, invariably, better than the movies based on them, some of my favorite films were based on books. I am an avid Harry Potter fan, and have seen every film. I frequently watch adaptations of Jane Austen novels, and recently saw the newest film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. A friend of mine, a graduate student, is taking an entire seminar on film adaptations of different novels. Because of the popularity of these films and novels, remediation is hard to ignore. I feel that I unknowingly engaged in remediation throughout my school years. Particularly in English classes, each year it seemed that I would always have to remediate a story as part of a project. The class would have to convert some aspect of our texts into videos, songs, or other forms of art. One memorable example is my final project for Senior Year English. Our class was divided into groups; each was given one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and was instructed to make it into a short film, with optional added flair. My group took The Pardoner’s Tale and made it into an outrageous ten minute musical. We selected vital aspects of the story that our audience (and our teacher) would recognize, then altered storylines and characters, cut unnecessary material, and added song and dance. Before I knew about remediation, I was asked to do it by my teachers, proof that remediation is everywhere, and is often unconscious.
Remediation is seen everywhere. I have a little sister and we would remediate a lot of her stories we would read together constantly. Whether it was reading a story and then changing it into a song, or acting out one of her favorite fairytales, we were constantly remediating. The purpose of my process was because it would make things a lot of fun and more interesting for my sister so she could understand what the book was talking about. Unconsciously, we would do it together. To be honest i did not know that was what we were doing, we would just do it for fun, but it is obvious that remediation occurs frequently without us even knowing it.
Remediation is an integral part of my personal life. Film remediates many different texts, and since its my field of choice, I watch a lot of movies remediated from books, comics, poetry, and so on. If I remediate something, it is intentionally done. I've always been fascinated by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and have remediated a couple different works of his into different things. By taking the image of "The Raven" from the poem of the same name, I was able to create a dock for an Edgar Allan Poe trading card I had made for a class many years ago. Another remediation was simply adapting his text for the stage and creating a character around "The Bells", specifically verse III. This was just for a bit of fun in the down time between shows in school.
Remediation directly connects to my personal life in various ways. One such way is in regards to my career aspirations. I often read music magazines. I want to write like that and have a job like that. Thus, I try to emulate said forms of writing. In a very roundabout way, this can be considered remediation. In my childhood, I conducted remediation quite often. With my acquired set of action figures and toys, I would mesh their fictional universes together and create a sort-of live action fan fiction. My purpose was of course at the time to entertain myself, but now as I look back, the act of remediation played a huge role in the development of my personality and of my creativity.
As you can probably tell by now I like to write and rap. Remediation has to a lot to do with conducting music. I am currently working on a song called “The Game”. The lyrical content is based on the inconsistent nature of the music business. The music business does not treat all artist the same but then again that is life. There is a song produced my Lex Lugar starring Waka Flaka called “F@#$ This Industry” and it is along the lines of my song. I took the beat from “F@$% This Industry” and wrote my own version of this song. Also, I edit the beat so it would be better formatted to my voice and flow. This is how I use remediation in most cases. When I do my spoken word pieces I usually pick the instrumental based on the lyrical content of the song. I am also currently working on a mixtape and the title cover and inside cover is a remediation of classic rap album title and inside covers. The image on the front of my mixtape is a baby picture of me. This is a direct remediation of Nas’s album Illmatic, he shows an image of him in his youth. I am trying to capture the same feeling Nas created by displaying this image on his debut album Illmatic.
For our culture to grow and expand, I think that remediation has to occur. Everything is a slight copy or a take on something that has been made before. I think through remediation we take old projects and combine them with new aspects and then those aspects are turned into something else. This cycle has gone on forever. In art, remediation is seen frequently. Anyone has seen plenty of figures displaying Aphrodite; there are paintings, sculptures, and mosaics, basically any medium. People still associate certain characteristics with her but no one has ever truly seen her in life. She is constantly being changed and displayed differently. This past summer, I was able to paint my own version of Aphrodite. While I used inspiration from works I had previously seen, I painted it with my own take on how I view her with a combination of works in mind as well. I think while I knew I was remediating something at the time, without knowing the exact word for it, it’s very possible to remediate something without knowing it. Sometimes we believe we are creating something completely original but there is no way we have not been influenced by anything before. While it is possible to create something of your own, art or any other form an idea shapes itself in is not possible without remediation.
Remediation has played a huge role in my life, ever since I was a little kid. I would always look to others creations to find the right inspiration for my own work. For example, when i was around 8 years old, I would often sit in class and draw out my favorite scene from some random episode of either Digimon or Pokemon, in the form of a comic strip. And yes, I did have a process. I would highlight the most crucial parts of the scene and use those so that people could enjoy and understand my comic. I took quite a bit of pride in my drawings. I do however believe that remediation is extremely important to our society as a whole, and i have no doubt that people just like me will continue to remediate things for ages to come.
Remediation connects to my personal life in many ways through books and music. While playing around, acting out scenes from my favorite books with my sister I never realized that we were conducting remediation. In middle school there were also times when I use to draw pictures while bored, thinking about a song stuck in my head. I would create what was happening in the long according to lyrics. I did not even have intentions on remediating anything, nor did I know what remediation was at the time. The things that I did as remediation was just for fun. The process for one form of remediation that I participated in was that I turned words from a book into improvisation; and the other was that I turned lyrics from a song into visuals on paper by making pictures of a person or people, there location and what they were doing as described by in the song.
I personally have only remediated a few times in the true sense of the word. The only time I can think of off the top of my head was my freshmen year of college for my Modern Pop class where the teacher instructed us to recreate a popular music video. My group remediated a Spice Girls video even though at the time I did not know it was remediation. Like Jen said, I am also an active participant in remediation when it comes to books being adapted in to films. I may not do it for every movie but I definitely do it for the ones that seem very interesting or I reread the ones I have already read that are being turned in to films. If I have ever remediated anything else it is not to my knowledge because I at the time did not know it as remediation.
When I was younger I was a fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody music. While his alterations may not have been remediations in the purest sense, they fell along the same lines. Personally, I cannot think of a time in which I remediated something. I recall using various technologies throughout my childhood but I do not remember adapting a work from one medium to another. A friend and I did a sort of remediation in which we made "movies" via Microsoft PowerPoint. There was no real reason for this other than entertainment, and in terms of process, it was just about making something funny within the restraints of PPt.
As an African American, I have to always be aware that I am culturally different than my counterparts. The way I view the world and our society is completely different than a Caucasian student. So, when I am presented with an assignment from a teacher that, at first glance, seems confusing, I have to break it down. For example, if I am given a passage to read that is full of theory, I will not understand it by just reading it. I have to stop and image the text as a movie or a really awesome song. Once I do, I can begin to understand how the text relates to me and my life. It is very difficult to do this because we, as students are all expected to read and immeadiatly understand the text. I have attended all three schools in Tallahassee, so my college experience and perspective is extremely unique. But I have learned, as it relates to this class, that this process of taking the information I am presented with and making it so I can understand it, is indeed remediation.
I conduct remediation in my daily life- I intake information and use it in different parts of my life, for different purposes than the original. Sometime I do not notice it, which is often the main goal of authors or remediators. Most of the time I do so consciously, which I have come to understand as “learning” and being able to apply the learned information to different situations. Actual remediation- in a media/rhetorical sense, I conduct fairly less often. When I was little, at family functions, my brother and I would put on little impromptu plays for my family that included our favorite TV characters. I always thought it was too funny if I were to sing a song about situations/characters that were involved elsewhere, maybe in an attempt to make my song my interesting and enticing to my, usually older, crowd. As I grew up, I wrote fan fiction (which is under scrutiny for inclusion in remediation). I usually would create my own characters, and just use a world that someone else created, much like Heather from one of our readings. In that way, I do not think I was remediating, but exploring my intelligence and ability. Remediation is sometimes looked upon in a negative light (copyright issue, etc) but I wholly believe that remediating different aspects of my life has helped me grow to excel in the area of writing and literacy.
All my life I try to remediate the styles of those who inspire me, whether is through storytelling, filmmaking, music, or poetry. I have learned that the best artist have copied their idols, and I have always believed that is the best way towards success. I have probably conducted thousands of remediation in my life without knowing it, probably mostly as a child. Playing pretend games using Indiana Jones, Star Wars, or a John Ford western or war film as the basis of the game. My purpose for remediating is to find my own style that is effective and enjoyable to my audience. My process is to study the piece of work, like for a film shot by shot, for a story line by line, and for music lyric by lyric. I look for the roots of my inspiration and try to find what they saw in another persons work. I go back all the way to the beginning and study what they were trying to say. I believe remediation is the only way that someone can find their own voice. Believe it or not, but even Hunter S. Thompson remediated F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby by rewriting the novel to find his own voice. So I believe that remediation is the only way an artist can create their own style.
ReplyDeleteRemediation connects with me because in highschool in a class I had called BDTV, our school's television program, we constantly remediated things. Many projects included things such as taking a music video and recreating it to become our own, hence "remediating" it. I'm sure that I have remediated things without knowing it many times before. Everyone remdiates whether they may realize it or not because something as simple as dressing up to resemble another person, Halloween for example is a form or remediation. When I remediated things like music videos in highschool we watched videos and did what we could to put our spin on things to make it our own, while still making sure the audience was able to relate the two videos.
ReplyDeleteRemediation has become a way of self expression. It helps artists to form their own style by being inspired by other artists and incorporating the works of the inspirers into their own. Remediation for me has definitely become a form of self expression. I like to sketch and will often use pictures or photographs as reference to create my own drawings. I'm able to convey what I'm interested in by doing so. Also, I have remediated many television shows by creating a parody of the show with friends. We took to gist of the show and remediated it to attract an audience who enjoyed to laugh. Doing such things through remediation not only help an artist develop their own style, but also, I believe of sense of who they are, or their personality. By feeding off of what others are doing, we are able to see what we like and don't like. Some call this inspiration, but inspiration has to come from what has already been created. In my opinion, remediation is not a new technique, but rather has been practiced since the beginning of mankind. We try to mimic those around us to draw a crowd or to "be cool." As such, remediation does not only apply to rhetoric, but to life.
ReplyDeleteRemediation is the act of taking all of the content of one media and turning into another media, according to Bolter and Grusin. We all do this countless times throughout our lives, whether we are aware of it or not. A time when I remediated that immediately comes to mind is in elementary school. We would reenact stories and convert them into plays that our fellow classmates and parents would watch. We were taking content from a print genre and turning it into a theatrical performance. I did not realize that I was remediating then, as an eight year old, but now it is apparent that I was contributing to a remediation. All of the students in the class would have to memorize their lines, and we would all design costumes and back drops for the scenes. Our purpose was to entertain our audience. With a text, a person can only visualize a scene within his mind. With a play, there is a visual representation right in front of the person, and he can identity with the characters and scene in a realistic way. That is the benefit of remediating: new perspectives are born through different forms of media. Now when I remediate, there is a more deliberate thought process behind it, and I do it for a certain effect. Like with this project, there is a specific purpose and audience that I will be appealing to with my remediation that is slightly different from the purpose of the original media.
ReplyDeleteRemediation plays a large part in the creation of culture. There are often more than one versions of a song or movie or sometimes even books. This is where I am connected to remediation. Movies like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings are both remediations of books I enjoy. They both had an effect on my writing style, imagination and opinions. Other types of remediations, such as when song lyrics include the story line of a short story or poem, also connect me to the practice. Like many other people, I took a T.V. Production class in high school which allowed me to practice remediation first hand. I worked with fellow students to reenact historical events in a comical manner or expand on a short comic strip we had found on the internet and create a film. When I write or sketch in the present day, I am often influenced by a song lyric or concept from something I have read and include it in what I’m working on. In a broad sense, I consider my process to follow a basic pattern: exposure to the primary work, analysis of the material (whether a conscious effort or not), inclusion in something else I’m working on therefore changing the medium, and putting some finishing touches on my work to make it my own while maintaining the original work’s characteristics enough to keep it recognizable. This process happens often since everything I experience has an effect on me, whether intentionally or not. Though, I suppose that is the purpose of anything composed, so there really isn’t any escaping it.
ReplyDeleteRemediation has always played a central role my creation.Art projects as a child were aimed at turning real-life things into artisitc elements of expression. For example, in second grade, I made a chinese dragon puppet out of a milk jug for a dragon puppet-parade project. To me, this was just arts and craft, but I was really changing images I had seen into a 3-dimensional sculptural puppet. In sixth grade, I used putty stuff to build a koala hanging onto a piece of branch to help represent Australia in the school's Multicultural Fair. Again, I was transforming images I saw on the internet, as well as personal memories from zoos and such, into a sculpture. Everything we create is a remediation, from a kindergartener's crayon remediation of a house, flowers, and sun to an undergraduate's essay remediation of their class's discussion of a literature book.
ReplyDeleteNothing can be pure content; at the most basic level, you are always remediating from thought and ideas to a physical medium; something is always lost in translation. You can never quite capture the same thing you were thinking, but different mediums allow you different affordances when seeking to communicate the original thought mediation.
Most of the time when remediating, you aren't even aware of it! You simply aim to communicate your ideas, using the models of the medium nad genre you have chosen to use.
Remediation is something I have been familiar with for a long time with out realizing it. In high school I was a vocalist and musician and it was common for those in my class to attend competitions in the hopes of receiving critical feedback from professionals. We would receive two songs on sheet music and it would be our job to learn the notes and interpret the lyrics how we wanted the audience to take them. In this sense I was remediating a print medium (the sheet music) and transforming into something that needed to be heard and experienced by the audience. The purpose behind this remediation was to add a layer of emotion that could not be experienced by simply reading the music. The human voice can convey so much power and emotion that text can not. Every voice is unique in it’s own way, through the process of making a song your own you can remediate it to fit your own needs.
ReplyDeleteI feel like remediation is something that surrounds us in our daily lives. It has become such a vital part of our culture, to take one form of media and turn it into another form. I especially noticed it in high school, when we would finish reading a novel for my literature class and then watch the movie version of it. There was even a unit on Shakespeare's Othello, and after reading the play we compared two different film versions. I myself can't remember a time when I personally remediated something but I am an active participant in remediation everytime I read a book before I go see the film. I think the book is always better, but I enjoy comparing the text to the motion picture to evaluate the parts the keep/change/leave out etc.
ReplyDeleteRemediation is everywhere. I find it particularly present in the worlds of film and literature. As an avid reader, I’m always interested to see how directors adapt books into movies. Although (in my opinion) books are, invariably, better than the movies based on them, some of my favorite films were based on books. I am an avid Harry Potter fan, and have seen every film. I frequently watch adaptations of Jane Austen novels, and recently saw the newest film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. A friend of mine, a graduate student, is taking an entire seminar on film adaptations of different novels. Because of the popularity of these films and novels, remediation is hard to ignore.
ReplyDeleteI feel that I unknowingly engaged in remediation throughout my school years. Particularly in English classes, each year it seemed that I would always have to remediate a story as part of a project. The class would have to convert some aspect of our texts into videos, songs, or other forms of art. One memorable example is my final project for Senior Year English. Our class was divided into groups; each was given one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and was instructed to make it into a short film, with optional added flair. My group took The Pardoner’s Tale and made it into an outrageous ten minute musical. We selected vital aspects of the story that our audience (and our teacher) would recognize, then altered storylines and characters, cut unnecessary material, and added song and dance. Before I knew about remediation, I was asked to do it by my teachers, proof that remediation is everywhere, and is often unconscious.
Remediation is seen everywhere. I have a little sister and we would remediate a lot of her stories we would read together constantly. Whether it was reading a story and then changing it into a song, or acting out one of her favorite fairytales, we were constantly remediating. The purpose of my process was because it would make things a lot of fun and more interesting for my sister so she could understand what the book was talking about. Unconsciously, we would do it together. To be honest i did not know that was what we were doing, we would just do it for fun, but it is obvious that remediation occurs frequently without us even knowing it.
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ReplyDeleteRemediation is an integral part of my personal life. Film remediates many different texts, and since its my field of choice, I watch a lot of movies remediated from books, comics, poetry, and so on. If I remediate something, it is intentionally done. I've always been fascinated by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and have remediated a couple different works of his into different things. By taking the image of "The Raven" from the poem of the same name, I was able to create a dock for an Edgar Allan Poe trading card I had made for a class many years ago. Another remediation was simply adapting his text for the stage and creating a character around "The Bells", specifically verse III. This was just for a bit of fun in the down time between shows in school.
ReplyDeleteRemediation directly connects to my personal life in various ways. One such way is in regards to my career aspirations. I often read music magazines. I want to write like that and have a job like that. Thus, I try to emulate said forms of writing. In a very roundabout way, this can be considered remediation. In my childhood, I conducted remediation quite often. With my acquired set of action figures and toys, I would mesh their fictional universes together and create a sort-of live action fan fiction. My purpose was of course at the time to entertain myself, but now as I look back, the act of remediation played a huge role in the development of my personality and of my creativity.
ReplyDeleteAs you can probably tell by now I like to write and rap. Remediation has to a lot to do with conducting music. I am currently working on a song called “The Game”. The lyrical content is based on the inconsistent nature of the music business. The music business does not treat all artist the same but then again that is life. There is a song produced my Lex Lugar starring Waka Flaka called “F@#$ This Industry” and it is along the lines of my song. I took the beat from “F@$% This Industry” and wrote my own version of this song. Also, I edit the beat so it would be better formatted to my voice and flow. This is how I use remediation in most cases. When I do my spoken word pieces I usually pick the instrumental based on the lyrical content of the song. I am also currently working on a mixtape and the title cover and inside cover is a remediation of classic rap album title and inside covers. The image on the front of my mixtape is a baby picture of me. This is a direct remediation of Nas’s album Illmatic, he shows an image of him in his youth. I am trying to capture the same feeling Nas created by displaying this image on his debut album Illmatic.
ReplyDeleteFor our culture to grow and expand, I think that remediation has to occur. Everything is a slight copy or a take on something that has been made before. I think through remediation we take old projects and combine them with new aspects and then those aspects are turned into something else. This cycle has gone on forever. In art, remediation is seen frequently. Anyone has seen plenty of figures displaying Aphrodite; there are paintings, sculptures, and mosaics, basically any medium. People still associate certain characteristics with her but no one has ever truly seen her in life. She is constantly being changed and displayed differently. This past summer, I was able to paint my own version of Aphrodite. While I used inspiration from works I had previously seen, I painted it with my own take on how I view her with a combination of works in mind as well. I think while I knew I was remediating something at the time, without knowing the exact word for it, it’s very possible to remediate something without knowing it. Sometimes we believe we are creating something completely original but there is no way we have not been influenced by anything before. While it is possible to create something of your own, art or any other form an idea shapes itself in is not possible without remediation.
ReplyDeleteRemediation has played a huge role in my life, ever since I was a little kid. I would always look to others creations to find the right inspiration for my own work. For example, when i was around 8 years old, I would often sit in class and draw out my favorite scene from some random episode of either Digimon or Pokemon, in the form of a comic strip. And yes, I did have a process. I would highlight the most crucial parts of the scene and use those so that people could enjoy and understand my comic. I took quite a bit of pride in my drawings. I do however believe that remediation is extremely important to our society as a whole, and i have no doubt that people just like me will continue to remediate things for ages to come.
ReplyDeleteRemediation connects to my personal life in many ways through books and music. While playing around, acting out scenes from my favorite books with my sister I never realized that we were conducting remediation. In middle school there were also times when I use to draw pictures while bored, thinking about a song stuck in my head. I would create what was happening in the long according to lyrics. I did not even have intentions on remediating anything, nor did I know what remediation was at the time. The things that I did as remediation was just for fun. The process for one form of remediation that I participated in was that I turned words from a book into improvisation; and the other was that I turned lyrics from a song into visuals on paper by making pictures of a person or people, there location and what they were doing as described by in the song.
ReplyDeleteI personally have only remediated a few times in the true sense of the word. The only time I can think of off the top of my head was my freshmen year of college for my Modern Pop class where the teacher instructed us to recreate a popular music video. My group remediated a Spice Girls video even though at the time I did not know it was remediation. Like Jen said, I am also an active participant in remediation when it comes to books being adapted in to films. I may not do it for every movie but I definitely do it for the ones that seem very interesting or I reread the ones I have already read that are being turned in to films. If I have ever remediated anything else it is not to my knowledge because I at the time did not know it as remediation.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I was a fan of "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody music. While his alterations may not have been remediations in the purest sense, they fell along the same lines. Personally, I cannot think of a time in which I remediated something. I recall using various technologies throughout my childhood but I do not remember adapting a work from one medium to another. A friend and I did a sort of remediation in which we made "movies" via Microsoft PowerPoint. There was no real reason for this other than entertainment, and in terms of process, it was just about making something funny within the restraints of PPt.
ReplyDeleteAs an African American, I have to always be aware that I am culturally different than my counterparts. The way I view the world and our society is completely different than a Caucasian student. So, when I am presented with an assignment from a teacher that, at first glance, seems confusing, I have to break it down. For example, if I am given a passage to read that is full of theory, I will not understand it by just reading it. I have to stop and image the text as a movie or a really awesome song. Once I do, I can begin to understand how the text relates to me and my life. It is very difficult to do this because we, as students are all expected to read and immeadiatly understand the text. I have attended all three schools in Tallahassee, so my college experience and perspective is extremely unique. But I have learned, as it relates to this class, that this process of taking the information I am presented with and making it so I can understand it, is indeed remediation.
ReplyDeleteI conduct remediation in my daily life- I intake information and use it in different parts of my life, for different purposes than the original. Sometime I do not notice it, which is often the main goal of authors or remediators. Most of the time I do so consciously, which I have come to understand as “learning” and being able to apply the learned information to different situations. Actual remediation- in a media/rhetorical sense, I conduct fairly less often.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, at family functions, my brother and I would put on little impromptu plays for my family that included our favorite TV characters. I always thought it was too funny if I were to sing a song about situations/characters that were involved elsewhere, maybe in an attempt to make my song my interesting and enticing to my, usually older, crowd. As I grew up, I wrote fan fiction (which is under scrutiny for inclusion in remediation). I usually would create my own characters, and just use a world that someone else created, much like Heather from one of our readings. In that way, I do not think I was remediating, but exploring my intelligence and ability.
Remediation is sometimes looked upon in a negative light (copyright issue, etc) but I wholly believe that remediating different aspects of my life has helped me grow to excel in the area of writing and literacy.