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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

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Remix in Retrospect: The Symposium

The annual Re-Mix symposium is organised within the framework of the English-language interdisciplinary minor program ‘Re-Mix: Creativity, Participation and Ownership in a Digital Age’, which is hosted by the Department of Arts and Culture at VU University Amsterdam. This year, the symposium is more specifically connected to the course ‘From Commonplace to Copy-Paste: Readers Using Texts’, focusing on a diachronic point of view. 

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?

Six internationally renowned speakers will discuss the changing roles of authors and readers in different stages of media history (from manuscript to print and digital textuality) and the implications of these changes for the creation of texts and the status of authorship. 

A round table discussion involving all speakers as well as the audience will conclude the afternoon.


Date: 21 October 2011
Time: 1 PM-6 PM
Location: VU University Amsterdam

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