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SUMMARY:RIP: A Remix Manifesto - film screening and panel discussion - Bil
 l Thompson\, Becky Hogge\, John Naughton\, Geoff Gamlen and Jussi Parikka
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CONTACT:Dr Jussi Parikka
DESCRIPTION:A screening of the fantastic RIP: A Remix Manifesto and follow
 ed up by a panel discussion with some leading technology and culture write
 rs\, presented by CoDE-institute (ARU)  (as part of the Festival of Ideas)
 :\n\nArts Picturehouse\, Cambridge\nOctober 30\, Saturday\, 15.00-17.30\nT
 ickets from the Picturehouse ticket counter\n\n"In RIP: A Remix Manifesto\
 , Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in 
 the information age\, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century a
 nd shattering the wall between users and producers.\n\nThe film’s centra
 l protagonist is Girl Talk\, a mash-up musician topping the charts with hi
 s sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pi
 ed Piper of piracy? Crea...tive Commons founder\, Lawrence Lessig\, Brazil
 ’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow
  are also along for the ride."\n\nThe screening is followed up by a panel 
 discussion with\n- Bill Thompson (technology writer and columnist for the 
 BBC Online\, as well as head of partnership development for Archive Develo
 pment projects at the BBC)\n- John Naughton (academic at Cambridge Univers
 ity\, writer and columnist for the Observer)\,\n- Becky Hogge (technology 
 writer\, columnist for the New Statesman and former executive director of 
 the Open Rights Group)\,\n- Jussi Parikka (media theorist and director of 
 the CoDE-institute at Anglia Ruskin University)\nand\n- Geoff Gamlen (a fo
 unding member of the remix-music/video group Eclectic Method have been cal
 led upon by artists like Fatboy Slim & U2 and by film\, video\, and televi
 sion companies such as New Line Cinema and Palm Pictures to create custom 
 a/v remixes.)\n\nThe panelists address the themes raised by RIP: Remix Man
 ifesto and a range of interesting and provocative approaches to cultural p
 roduction in the digital age\, copyright and its alternatives\, and free c
 ulture. 
LOCATION:Arts Picturehouse Cinema\, Cambridge
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