{"id":4840,"date":"2013-03-01T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:19:02","slug":"march-7-remix-it-right-rediscoveries-in-the-phil-morton-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2013\/03\/01\/march-7-remix-it-right-rediscoveries-in-the-phil-morton-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"March 7 – REMIX-IT-RIGHT: Rediscoveries in the Phil Morton Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThursday, March 7, 8 p.m. <\/strong> | <\/strong>Program introduced by curator Jon Cates.
\nArtists in person!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Still from Colorful Colorado (Rick Silva, 2011). Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chicago video pioneer Phil Morton (1945-2003) anticipated remix in his genre-defying individual and collaborative projects that share characteristics with what we now call \u201cNew Media\u201d today. Radically open, committed to process, collaborative, contentious, and charismatic; Morton embodied what he dubbed COPY-IT-RIGHT. An alternative to copyright, this ethic encourages making, sharing, remixing, and distributing media art, its systems, and technologies. To illuminate Morton\u2019s continued influence and inspiration, Jon Cates, founder of the Phil Morton Memorial Archive<\/a>, asked an international roster of contemporary video and new media artists to remix, rework, and re-imagine Morton\u2019s original tapes. This program interweaves Morton\u2019s work with his remixes, resulting in a generous mash-up of past, present, proto-digital and cyber psychedelic. Presented in collaboration with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. This program is generously supported by the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

PHIL MORTON<\/strong> (1945-2003) was an electronic visualization artist, analog computer builder, real-time video graphic performance artist, C.B. radio performer, Mobile Video Van designer and user, and videotape maker. He taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he founded the first department for Video Art to offer a BFA or MFA degree in the United States and established the Video Data Bank. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and the 1975 S\u00e3o Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil). Morton released his individual and collaborative projects under COPY-IT-RIGHT, a concept he developed in the early 1970s with artists Dan Sandin and Jane Veeder, among others. An alternative to copyright, COPY-IT-RIGHT is an ethic that encourages making, sharing, remixing and distributing experimental Media Art freely and openly. Morton\u2019s thirty-year \u201cpersonal video databank\u201d is available through the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n

::Program::<\/strong>
\nColorful Colorado Revisited<\/em> – Yoshi Sodeoka <\/a>(2013)
\nDeep Thoughts<\/em> – Jennifer Chan<\/a> (2013)
\nArs Electronica 2013<\/em> – Emilie Gervais <\/a>(2013)
\nMccxcc, Milk Vic m<\/em> – Akihiko Taniguchi<\/a> (2013)
\nYouTube Copy of ArsElectronica1992 DV<\/em> – Constant Dullaart <\/a>(2013)
\nApple Computers <\/em>– Nick Briz <\/a>(2013)
\nColorful Colorado Remix<\/em> – Rick Silva<\/a> (2013)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 7, 8 p.m. | Program introduced by curator Jon Cates. Artists in person! Chicago video pioneer Phil Morton (1945-2003) anticipated remix in his genre-defying individual and collaborative projects that share characteristics with what we now call \u201cNew Media\u201d today. Radically open, committed to process, collaborative, contentious, and charismatic; Morton embodied what he dubbed […]<\/p>\n

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