The Re/Mixed Media Festival, presented by lo-fi lounge, celebrates remix as a legitimate, responsible form of visual art by bringing together filmmakers, video remixers and mashup artists to display their works publicly. The festival will be held in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday May 30, 2010 at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo. While film and video is a major part of this event, we will also feature panel discussions on copyright and fair use, visual art, music and fashion.

We are currently soliciting films from lo-fi artists that utilize remix/mashup techniques, and that are under 10 minutes in length. You may remix the work of others (see guidelines below) or your own original work.

Additionally, your film should comply with the following guidelines:

1. Remix does not mean stealing someone elses work and claiming it as your own, but using it to create a work that is substantially different from the appropriated work, even if it depends heavily on it. 2. The materials used in the remix should be either owned by the artist, granted permission from use from the creator, licensed under a creative commons license which allows such use, in the public domain, or fall within the parameters of the Fair Use doctrine of U.S. Copyright Law. 3. Attribution for works used will be given where required. 4. To be considered for the festival, submitted works must be freely redistributable, except as limited by source material restrictions. This means that other artists in the festival may remix your submission after entries are chosen and the resulting work may be used in the festival.

About Re/Mixed Media 2010

In the past decade, digital hardware and software has allowed artists and consumers access to media-creating tools previously only available to professionals. The result has been not only an explosion of user-generated media, but an explosion of creativity as well. Artists began applying remixing and mashup techniques borrowed from the music world, to digital video and film, creating new works of art using elements from other sources.

The Festival aims to challenge recent changes to copyright law by bringing public awareness to media mixing as a legitimate practice.We are soliciting artists who remix responsibly, which means recognizing that every artist contributes to the global cultural library and works can and should be built upon, modified, and repurposed with the goal of bringing a new work of art into the world.