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This site is designed to extend the interest on remix studies by offering information about publications as well as resources that will be updated as research takes place. The site will also include ongoing posts about developments in remix, keywords as well as bibliographic references.
Editors
Eduardo Navas
Eduardo Navas is Associate Research Professor of Art and Digital Arts & Media Design in the School of Visual Arts, and Research Faculty in the College of Arts and Architecture's Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) at Pennsylvania State University. He implements methodologies of cultural analytics and digital humanities to research the relation of emerging technology, art and media in culture.
His books include Remix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling (Springer, 2012), Spate: A Navigational Theory of Networks (INC, 2016), Art Media Design, Postproduction: Open Guidelines on Appropriation and Remix (Routledge, 2018; 2nd edition 2025), and The Rise of Metacreativity: AI Aesthetics After Remix (Routledge, 2023). He received his Ph.D. from the Program of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California in San Diego.
Owen Gallagher
Owen Gallagher is Head of School and Associate Professor of Creative Media at Bahrain Polytechnic, where he lectures in film, sound, animation, and game design. He is the author of Reclaiming Critical Remix Video: The Role of Sampling in Transformative Works (Routledge, 2018), and has published a number of book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers on remix culture, intellectual property, and visual semiotics.
He is the founder of TotalRecut.com, an online community archive of remix videos, and a co-founder of the Remix Theory & Praxis seminar group. Owen received his Ph.D. in Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin.
xtine burrough
xtine burrough is a media artist who transforms digital systems into spaces for storytelling, critique, and community voice. She transforms interactive platforms into spaces for poetic play. Based in Dallas, she teaches at UT Dallas and directs LabSynthE, creating work that bends data, archives, and code toward feminist and socially engaged ends.
Her publications include Foundations of Digital Art and Design (New Riders, 2014, 2019 2nd Ed.), Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge, 2012), Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change. (Routledge, 2021 with Judy Walgren), and Critical Web Design. (MIT Press, 2026, with Owen Mundy). She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work is collected in libraries, archives, and the Getty Research Institute.
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd Edition
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd Edition comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the interdisciplinary field of remix studies. The act of recombining pre-existing material continues to bring up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism, especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence, which relies on remix methods and principles for content production.
This second edition includes ten new chapters, and nine revised chapters. Reprinted chapters from the first edition are updated with editorial prefaces.
The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary companion, in which contributors reflect on remix across the broad spectrum of media and culture, with each chapter offering in-depth reflections on the relationship between remix studies and the digital humanities.
The anthology is organized into sections that explore remix studies and digital humanities in relation to topics such as archives, artificial intelligence, cinema, epistemology, gaming, generative art, hacking, pedagogy, sound, and VR, among other subjects of study.
Keywords in Remix Studies
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Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities. The focus on a specific keyword for each essay enables contributors to expose culture and society's inconclusive relation with the creative process, and questions assumptions about authorship, plagiarism and originality.
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media.
The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary companion, in which contributors reflect on remix across the broad spectrum of media and culture, with each chapter offering in-depth reflections on the relationship between remix studies and the digital humanities.
The anthology is organized into sections that explore remix studies and digital humanities in relation to topics such as archives, artificial intelligence, cinema, epistemology, gaming, generative art, hacking, pedagogy, sound, and VR, among other subjects of study. Selected chapters focus on practice-based projects produced by artists, designers, remix studies scholars, and digital humanists. With this mix of practical and theoretical chapters, editors Navas, Gallagher, and burrough offer a tapestry of critical reflection on the contemporary cultural and political implications of remix studies and the digital humanities, functioning as an ideal reference manual to these evolving areas of study across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of digital humanities, remix studies, media arts, information studies, interactive arts and technology, and digital media studies.
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies — 2nd Edition (2025)
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd Edition comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the interdisciplinary field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media. The act of recombining pre-existing material continues to bring up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism, especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence, which relies on remix methods and principles for content production.
This second edition includes ten new chapters, and nine revised chapters. Reprinted chapters from the first edition are updated with editorial prefaces. This volume offers in-depth insight for long-term relevance among the many interdisciplinary fields that rely on and also contribute to remix studies.
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies — 1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. As an organic international movement, remix culture originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s, and has since grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing numerous forms of media.
The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism. This book approaches remix studies from various angles, including sections on history, aesthetics, ethics, politics, and practice, and presents theoretical chapters alongside case studies of remix projects.
Abstracts
This section offers chapter abstracts for the book's five sections:
1) History
This section considers important moments in history that have informed the development of remix as a rich cultural activity encompassing various forms of media.
2) Aesthetics
This section is concerned with the production and reception of remix. The aesthetical concerns of remix culture producers and how their work has been received by their respective audiences is a primary focus.
3) Ethics
This section is concerned with ethics in remix. Issues such as those surrounding the unauthorized appropriation and reuse of copyrighted content by remixers.
4) Politics
This section is concerned with the role of remix as a techno-political tool of media activism. It explores the extent to which remix may be considered effective in the service of various social and political causes.
5) Practice
This section offers chapters written by remix practitioners. The authors—often artists or remix practitioners themselves—include their first-person stories about festivals, exhibits, music productions, and video mashups, as well as performances and installations.
Keywords in Remix Studies
Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share interests in remix studies and remix culture throughout the arts and humanities. The essays reflect on the critical, historical and theoretical lineage of remix to the technological production that makes contemporary forms of communication and creativity possible. Remix enjoys international attention as it continues to become a paradigm of reference across many disciplines, due in part to its interdisciplinary nature as an unexpectedly fragmented approach and method useful in various fields to expand specific research interests. The focus on a specific keyword for each essay enables contributors to expose culture and society's inconclusive relation with the creative process, and questions assumptions about authorship, plagiarism and originality. Keywords in Remix Studies is a resource for scholars, including researchers, practitioners, lecturers and students, interested in some or all aspects of remix studies. It can be a reference manual and introductory resource, as well as a teaching tool across the humanities and social sciences.
Bibliography
The list below consists of selected books. It is by no means exhaustive. Publications will be added accordingly. If you have a suggestion, please contact one of the editors, xtine burrough, Owen Gallagher, or Eduardo Navas. We will gladly consider it.