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This blog accompanies the international symposium Remix in Retrospect: Looking Back to See the Future of Authorship, organized by the Faculty of Arts at VU University Amsterdam. Here, you will find information about the programme, the speakers and the abstracts. The basics:

Where: VU University, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam, room 11A05
When: 21 October 2011, from 1PM to 6PM
Language: all papers and the discussion will be in English
Entrance: FREE
Registration: please send an email to Nelleke Moser: ph.moser@let.vu.nl

Monday 10 October 2011

Full Programme

SYMPOSIUM

Remix in Retrospect: Looking Back to See the Future of Authorship


21 October 2011
VU University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam
Main building, room 11A05

PROGRAMME

12.30-13.00 tea & coffee


13.00-13.15 welcome
13.15-13.40 Adriaan van der Weel, Sociotechnical Construction of Authorship
13.40-14.05 Adam Smyth, Knives and Scissors: Cutting up Text in Early Modern England
14.05-14.30 Feike Dietz, Reading by Writing: Early Modern Reading Practices in Manuscript and Print Culture


14.30-15.00 tea & coffee


15.00-15.25 Kate Eichhorn, Late Print Culture’s ‘Social Media’ Revolution: Authorship, Collaboration and Copy Machines
15.25- 15.50 James Barrett, Frankenstein’s Monster Comes Home: Digital Remix and the Ends of Origin
15.50-16.15 Jenna Ng, Finders, Users, Up-enders; or, Authoring Media in the Digital Age: Mash-ups, Crowd-sourcing, Machinima


16.15-17.00 Round table discussion
How may knowledge of historical developments in manuscript and print culture feed the current debate on authorship, reading, copy-right, and creativity in the digital age? And how may a contemporary point of view help us understand and evaluate past practices?


17.00-17.10 closing remarks
17.10-18.30 drinks reception

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