Reading Response #3: “What Comes After Remix?”

In Manovich’s essay, he talks in depth about remix culture and how remixes now surround us in every medium. While delving into where remix came from, what it consists of, and how one goes about remixing, he brought up some very crucial questions at the end of his piece. In the last paragraph, Manovich compares remix to the Russian Communist regime. He believed that the regime would be around for hundreds of years, when in reality it was gone within ten years of his prediction. Similarly, the future of remix remains in doubt. Manovich asks the question, “what comes after remix?”, opening up the discussion to a wide range of thoughts. However, I think it is premature to assume what will come next. Yes, we will eventually grow tired of remixes, as we have with many other styles, but part of the fun is awaiting what comes next. Obviously, with the parallel Manovich draws to the Soviet Union, it might come sooner than we expect, but as he writes in his essay, and we saw a little bit with our Remix & Appropriation project, the more we understand the history of remix, and how it came to be, the better we will be able to grasp the next big revolution in art, whatever it may be.

 

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