The first mention of "mashups" that came to my attention was from the music world, where DJs, producers and musicians would combine pre-existing music releases to create a new blended composition. More recently, there was a rush to identify a new generation of web-based applications as "mashup" software: there was much discussion of "aggregrate feeds" or the combination of data from different sources achieved with the use of intelligent programs or "bots" which had advanced capabilities approaching the level of human understanding. This site will not devote much attention to web-based, or business application uses of the term "mashup", but will instead focus on how this concept (or process) is used in visual arts, music and literature. In the artistic realm "mashup" is a process of recombinant art, or "derived" art. Some may call it type of plagiarism which results from the impulse to create paired with a lack of imagination. Others will contend that this process of remixing source materials, whether they be "found sounds", music, text, video or other forms of visual art is a new way of understanding the media-rich environment of the 21st century - even that it may be an essential tool or weapon to combat the incessant bombardment of advertising and coercive messaging. Although mashup can take many forms and is known by many names, the process remains the same: elements of different source materials are mixed together (or "juxtaposed") in a way that either reveals a preiously hidden meaning or creates a new perspective (whether it be critical or aesthetic).

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	Recommended Viewing: rip! A Remix Manifesto: This documentary by filmmaker Brett Gaylor digs deeps into the legal difficulties and artistic benefits of using the mashup (remix) process in music and multimendia. Using the framework of a "Remix Manifesto", the film relates the story of an ongoing cultural battle between mighty corporate copyright owners and a new breed of artists who "take the world's culture and transform it into something different". Read more: "...comsumers have become creators, making the folk art of the future..."
Recommended Reading: Makers by Cory Doctorow Remix goes beyond the arts and into the realms of engineering and software development: Cory Doctorow tells the story of two "makers" (engineers, coders, artists all rolled into one) who possess an Open Source vision of breaking down corporate and copyright barriors through the ubiquitous free sharing of information and resources to magnify human potential and build a new post-scarcity Utopian society. A hopeful story of mashup engineering.

Other interesting Mashup resources:

• Folksonomy and the Semantic Web
• Collaborative Writing Tools
• Review of Online Writing Tools
• Writing Semantic Markup
• Dub Fiction
• New for fall 2012: Now under development from the author of Cut'n'Mix and administrator of MASHMASHUP: Democracy Sucks! - an ambitious new project which attempts to make sense of the current state of western democracy and how it falls far short of the democratic ideal.
• WriteBase - Database-Driven Text Composition Software

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