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University of Texas at Dallas, Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, Faculty Member

California State University, Fullerton, Communications, Faculty Member

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xtine burrough is a new media artist. She has authored or edited several books including Foundations of Digital Art and Design (2013), Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (2011), and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies with Drs. Navas and Gallagher (2015). She is the Editor of the Visual Communication Quarterly, and an Associate Professor in The School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at UT Dallas. Her awards include a Webby Honoree, a Terminal commission, a grant from the UK Big Lottery fund, funding from the Cultural Olympiad, and grants from California Humanities with Dan Sutko (2015) and Humanities Texas with Sabrina Starnaman (2016). Her recent projects recover feminist texts through mediation and reimagine virtual crowd workers as bodies with agency. At UT Dallas, burrough co-organizes LabSynthE with Frank Dufour and co-directs SP&CE MediaLab with Drs. Banner and Knight. Her website is missconceptions.net.

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The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities

by Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, Mar 23, 2021

In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, contributors reflect on remix across... more In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, 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 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, episte-mology, 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.

Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, Second Edition

Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, Second Edition, 2020

All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—nee... more All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design. These principles are often excluded from books that teach software. Foundations of Digital Art and Design reinvigorates software training by integrating design exercises into tutorials fusing design fundamentals and core Adobe Creative Cloud skills. The result is a comprehensive design learning experience.

This book is organized into six sections that focus on vector art, photography, image manipulation, typography, web design, and effective habits. Design topics and principles include: Bits, Dots, Lines, Shapes, Rule of Thirds, Zone System, Color Models, Collage, Appropriation, Gestalt, The Bauhaus Basic Course Approach, The Grid, Remix, Automation, and Revision.

Keywords in Remix Studies (Routledge, 2018)

by Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough

Keywords in Remix Studies, 2018

Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share inte... more 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.

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (Routledge, 2015)

by Owen Gallagher, xtine burrough, and Eduardo Navas

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists ... more 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. The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.

Foundations of Digital Art and Design

Foundations of Digital Art and Design combines lessons in Bauhaus-inspired design principles with... more Foundations of Digital Art and Design combines lessons in Bauhaus-inspired design principles with examples of contemporary digital art for learners using the Adobe Creative Cloud. Like Burrough’s co-authored Digital Foundations and Visual Communication on the Web, exercises in this book transform software training into a critical learning activity.

Net Works: Case Studies of Web Art and Design

Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovativ... more Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap.

Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning.

Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, Net Works is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.

Praise for Net Works:
"A fascinating look at net-based art and design, and a compelling read. What makes this Net Works unique, and particularly useful, is the rigor and insight with which the contributors discuss their own projects. It will quickly appear on many syllabi, including my own."
--Mark Tribe, Brown University

Digital Foundations

Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All s... more Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software. Consequently, the design software training exercise is often a lost opportunity for visual learning. Digital Foundations reinvigorates software training by integrating Bauhaus design exercises into tutorials fusing design fundamentals and core Adobe Creative Suite methodologies. The result is a cohesive learning experience.

ISBN: 0321555988

Papers by xtine burrough

Syntonic Refuge

Unbound, Mar 20, 2023

people find and offer refuge by coming together in common practices such as hugging and holding h... more people find and offer refuge by coming together in common practices such as hugging and holding hands. The space between our bodies co-regulates our embodied reactions, thus cultivating a sense of peace amid stress or fear. People are syntonic, harmoniously responsive to the changing needs of the situation. Through close human interaction, Syntonic Refuge discloses the heartbeats of two people who wrap themselves in the embrace of a shawl, which represents both care of the individual, and a shelter for shared experiences (figure 1).

Burrough, X: Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adob

New Riders Publishing, Nov 4, 2020

Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix

Media-N

This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borg... more This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a recurring point of reference in the development of media culture. Prior to terms such as new media, digital art, media art, and remix, Borges’s narrative exploration of bifurcation as a means of reflecting on the possibility of multiple simultaneous realities with no clear beginning or end has offered a literary and philosophical model for creative uses of emerging technology throughout the twentieth century. The essays included in this special issue provide a glimpse into the relation of Borgesian multiplicity and remix as an interdisciplinary methodology.

Foundations of digital art and design with Adobe Creative Cloud

Couchsurfing, Delocator, and Fallen Fruit: Websites Respond to a Crisis of Democracy

M/C Journal, Jun 1, 2008

An American crisis of democracy can be understood as the tension between civic participation and ... more An American crisis of democracy can be understood as the tension between civic participation and governmental control. Canadian activist Kalle Lasn argues that corporations are the cause of a socio-political crisis, evidenced in the hegemonic effects of the dominance of the mass media over the public. While Lasn suggests critiquing the mass media, French psychoanalytic theorist Pierre-Félix Guattari proposes strategies for social change that include furthering public participation by using new technologies. This paper examines activist websites utilizing Web 2.0 standards to address a crisis of democracy and promote alternative consumer behaviors in the offline world, within the frame of Lasn’s and Guattari’s critique.

Interview with Ari Melenciano

Art as Social Practice, 2022

Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, xtine burrou... more

Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation

Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation is a real-time, online live performance that rest... more Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation is a real-time, online live performance that restages burrough and Starnaman’s browser-based poetic remix, Epic Hand Washing in a Time of Lost Narratives. In this 20-minute performance, participants will simultaneously wash their hands for twenty seconds while the hosts take turns reading quotes from novels, plays, poetry, and essays written during or about life during pandemics from the bubonic plague to the global influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Our set of texts includes works written by authors such as William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, William Maxwell, and Giovanni Boccacio, who experienced outbreaks of yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) and the H1N1 influenza outbreak of 1918-19. These quotes address the horror of being sick, the fear of becoming infected, the grief of loss, as well as the mundane life of quarantine. In the first four minutes of the online gathering, the hosts explain their browser-based speculative remix project. Two minutes are used to organize participants into groups, and two additional minutes are allotted for the groups to select the quote they would like to have read aloud. The remaining time is divided equally among the groups. Each group will wash their hands together for 20 seconds during which time a quote is read aloud. The hosts will record this performance as documentation of a live-from-our-kitchens happening. Footage from this event will become an edited video and a provocation for viewers to consider the emerging pandemic narrative we are creating now. Directions: Prepare to wash your hands on Zoom in real time by setting up a camera to live stream or recruiting a person to film you near the sink. Log into the Zoom link provided. Wash your hands on camera for 20 seconds while we read along with your performance. This synchronous performance connects you to generations of individuals who have also endured life during a global pandemic. We recognize and honor this connection and our individual actions to take care of ourselves and others

Net works: case studies in Web art and design

Choice Reviews Online, 2012

Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovativ... more Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap. Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning. Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, Net Works is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, 2021

In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, contributors reflect on remix across... more In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, 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 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, episte-mology, 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

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities

by Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, Mar 23, 2021

In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, contributors reflect on remix across... more In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, 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 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, episte-mology, 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.

Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, Second Edition

Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, Second Edition, 2020

All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—nee... more All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design. These principles are often excluded from books that teach software. Foundations of Digital Art and Design reinvigorates software training by integrating design exercises into tutorials fusing design fundamentals and core Adobe Creative Cloud skills. The result is a comprehensive design learning experience.

This book is organized into six sections that focus on vector art, photography, image manipulation, typography, web design, and effective habits. Design topics and principles include: Bits, Dots, Lines, Shapes, Rule of Thirds, Zone System, Color Models, Collage, Appropriation, Gestalt, The Bauhaus Basic Course Approach, The Grid, Remix, Automation, and Revision.

Keywords in Remix Studies (Routledge, 2018)

by Owen Gallagher and xtine burrough

Keywords in Remix Studies, 2018

Keywords in Remix Studies consists of twenty-four chapters authored by researchers who share inte... more 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.

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies (Routledge, 2015)

by Owen Gallagher, xtine burrough, and Eduardo Navas

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists ... more 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. The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies is a valuable resource for both researchers and remix practitioners, as well as a teaching tool for instructors using remix practices in the classroom.

Foundations of Digital Art and Design

Foundations of Digital Art and Design combines lessons in Bauhaus-inspired design principles with... more Foundations of Digital Art and Design combines lessons in Bauhaus-inspired design principles with examples of contemporary digital art for learners using the Adobe Creative Cloud. Like Burrough’s co-authored Digital Foundations and Visual Communication on the Web, exercises in this book transform software training into a critical learning activity.

Net Works: Case Studies of Web Art and Design

Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovativ... more Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap.

Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning.

Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, Net Works is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.

Praise for Net Works:
"A fascinating look at net-based art and design, and a compelling read. What makes this Net Works unique, and particularly useful, is the rigor and insight with which the contributors discuss their own projects. It will quickly appear on many syllabi, including my own."
--Mark Tribe, Brown University

Digital Foundations

Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All s... more Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software. Consequently, the design software training exercise is often a lost opportunity for visual learning. Digital Foundations reinvigorates software training by integrating Bauhaus design exercises into tutorials fusing design fundamentals and core Adobe Creative Suite methodologies. The result is a cohesive learning experience.

ISBN: 0321555988

Syntonic Refuge

Unbound, Mar 20, 2023

people find and offer refuge by coming together in common practices such as hugging and holding h... more people find and offer refuge by coming together in common practices such as hugging and holding hands. The space between our bodies co-regulates our embodied reactions, thus cultivating a sense of peace amid stress or fear. People are syntonic, harmoniously responsive to the changing needs of the situation. Through close human interaction, Syntonic Refuge discloses the heartbeats of two people who wrap themselves in the embrace of a shawl, which represents both care of the individual, and a shelter for shared experiences (figure 1).

Burrough, X: Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adob

New Riders Publishing, Nov 4, 2020

Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix

Media-N

This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borg... more This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a recurring point of reference in the development of media culture. Prior to terms such as new media, digital art, media art, and remix, Borges’s narrative exploration of bifurcation as a means of reflecting on the possibility of multiple simultaneous realities with no clear beginning or end has offered a literary and philosophical model for creative uses of emerging technology throughout the twentieth century. The essays included in this special issue provide a glimpse into the relation of Borgesian multiplicity and remix as an interdisciplinary methodology.

Foundations of digital art and design with Adobe Creative Cloud

Couchsurfing, Delocator, and Fallen Fruit: Websites Respond to a Crisis of Democracy

M/C Journal, Jun 1, 2008

An American crisis of democracy can be understood as the tension between civic participation and ... more An American crisis of democracy can be understood as the tension between civic participation and governmental control. Canadian activist Kalle Lasn argues that corporations are the cause of a socio-political crisis, evidenced in the hegemonic effects of the dominance of the mass media over the public. While Lasn suggests critiquing the mass media, French psychoanalytic theorist Pierre-Félix Guattari proposes strategies for social change that include furthering public participation by using new technologies. This paper examines activist websites utilizing Web 2.0 standards to address a crisis of democracy and promote alternative consumer behaviors in the offline world, within the frame of Lasn’s and Guattari’s critique.

Interview with Ari Melenciano

Art as Social Practice, 2022

Art + Recovery in the Digital Humanities

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, xtine burrou... more

Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation

Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation is a real-time, online live performance that rest... more Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation is a real-time, online live performance that restages burrough and Starnaman’s browser-based poetic remix, Epic Hand Washing in a Time of Lost Narratives. In this 20-minute performance, participants will simultaneously wash their hands for twenty seconds while the hosts take turns reading quotes from novels, plays, poetry, and essays written during or about life during pandemics from the bubonic plague to the global influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Our set of texts includes works written by authors such as William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, William Maxwell, and Giovanni Boccacio, who experienced outbreaks of yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) and the H1N1 influenza outbreak of 1918-19. These quotes address the horror of being sick, the fear of becoming infected, the grief of loss, as well as the mundane life of quarantine. In the first four minutes of the online gathering, the hosts explain their browser-based speculative remix project. Two minutes are used to organize participants into groups, and two additional minutes are allotted for the groups to select the quote they would like to have read aloud. The remaining time is divided equally among the groups. Each group will wash their hands together for 20 seconds during which time a quote is read aloud. The hosts will record this performance as documentation of a live-from-our-kitchens happening. Footage from this event will become an edited video and a provocation for viewers to consider the emerging pandemic narrative we are creating now. Directions: Prepare to wash your hands on Zoom in real time by setting up a camera to live stream or recruiting a person to film you near the sink. Log into the Zoom link provided. Wash your hands on camera for 20 seconds while we read along with your performance. This synchronous performance connects you to generations of individuals who have also endured life during a global pandemic. We recognize and honor this connection and our individual actions to take care of ourselves and others

Net works: case studies in Web art and design

Choice Reviews Online, 2012

Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovativ... more Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap. Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning. Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, Net Works is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, 2021

In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, contributors reflect on remix across... more In this comprehensive and highly interdisciplinary handbook, 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 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, episte-mology, 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

One Breath Poem

Art as Social Practice, 2022

A Digital Korl Woman: Students and Workers Recover the Spirit of Life in the Iron Mills from the Digital Factory to the Classroom

Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 2017

abstract:In this article, we reflect on a class collaboration at the intersection of social justi... more abstract:In this article, we reflect on a class collaboration at the intersection of social justice, digital labor, technology, pedagogy, and literature. The participatory installation discussed in this article centers on the crowdsourced creation of a modern-day "korl woman," a statuesque icon created by a working-class character and interpreted by a doctor and an upper-management character in Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills (1861). The korl woman becomes the focal point for Davis's exploration of industrial labor practices, immigrant workers, labor and class, and the indomitability of artistic expression. In the classroom, the korl woman was reignited as the focal point for a twenty-first-century exploration of digital labor practices, crowdsourced workers, and artistic expression. We focus on a project made with undergraduate students in a "Studies in Women's Literature" course to produce a digital korl woman—a digitally fabricated i...

Art as Social Practice

A Decade of Working with the Working Crowd

Media-N

In this contribution to the Media-N special issue, “Humans Are Underrated: Art & Labor in the Ama... more In this contribution to the Media-N special issue, “Humans Are Underrated: Art & Labor in the Amazon Economy,” I narrate creative projects that disrupt or interfere with the Mechanical Turk platform. My place as an artist and employer in the elastic workforce since 2008 has given me a close and nuanced view of life online in the virtual workplace. The jobs I have created on the platform ask workers to perform athletic events, create videos, meditate, and talk back to Jeff Bezos. The materials I collect from the workers are integrated into art works that amplify the visibility of the workers and their unique voices. This article shows how those “underrated” humans in the Amazon economy are creative, thoughtful, and intelligent.

Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix

by xtine burrough, Alina Nazmeeva, and Rebekah Modrak

Media-N Journal of the New Media Caucus, 2021

This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borg... more This special issue of Media-N on contemporary approaches to remix was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a recurring point of reference in the development of media culture. 1 Prior to terms such as new media, digital art, media art, and remix, Borges’s narrative exploration of bifurcation as a means of reflecting on the possibility of multiple simultaneous realities with no clear beginning or end has offered a literary and philosophical model for creative uses of emerging technology throughout the twentieth century. The essays included in this special issue provide a glimpse into the relation of Borgesian multiplicity and remix as an interdisciplinary methodology. https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/issue/view/88

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud, Revised Edition

This book was written by two artists who also happen to be educators teaching studio foundation c... more This book was written by two artists who also happen to be educators teaching studio foundation classes in digital art and design. While teaching classes that meet in software laboratories, we noticed that many of our students expected to learn software but gave little consideration to aesthetics of history. A typical first day question might be, "Are we going to learn Photoshop® in this class?" At first we were tempted to oblige our students' thirst for so-called practical knowledge, but we recognize that in the absence of the visual, theoretical, and historical frameworks practical knowledge is practically useless. To teach our classes we used the very best of the software training manuals, and supplemented them with all the visual and historical material that was missing. We have tired of fighting against these books as we attempted to reframe the technical learning inside of visual principles and historical examples. After settling on a book that doesn't really encapsulate a class for years, we finally decided to write the book that we think all introductory media design students should be using. For us a student anyone learning, whether traditional and working towards a degree in art, communication, graphic design, illustration, and so on, or if she is a self-taught found-it-on-the-bookstore-shelf learner. In the twenty chapters that follow, we have created small bites of history, followed by visual references, and then digital exercises that explore the Adobe® Creative Suite in a manner that extends learning design principles to the realm of the software demonstration. BAUHAUS One way to think of this book is a mashup of the Bauhaus Basic Course and the Adobe® Creative Cloud®. We are taking the visual principles and exercises from the Bauhaus Basic Course and teaching them in the Adobe® Creative Cloud®. The Bauhaus was an influential art, design and architectural school in Germany. It operated from 1919 to 1933, during which time it transformed art education, through its integration of art, craft, architecture and design, its emphasis on modern materials, and the creation of the Basic Course. The Basic Course was a year long course in which first year students learned composition, color theory, and how to use a variety of basic materials. When many of the instructors fled Nazi Germany, arriving in the United States and other countries, they brought this education model with them in the guise of the Studio Foundation course. This book takes its inspiration from the Bauhaus model, transforming those traditional lessons into the digital exercises in the Adobe® Creative Cloud®.

Epic Hand Washing

M/C Journal, 2021

In March 2020, co-authors burrough and Starnaman with Technical Director Dale MacDonald had just ... more In March 2020, co-authors burrough and Starnaman with Technical Director Dale MacDonald had just finished collaborating on a work of computational art, A Kitchen of One’s Own, for The Photographers’ Gallery in London. In this essay we discuss the genealogy of our Zoom performance, Epic Handwashing for Synchronous Participation, which was an extension of two earlier projects—one that was derailed due to COVID-19, and the other that resulted from our pivot towards reflecting on the pandemic experience. Our performance was a response to, and offered a collaborative moment of reflection on, the uncertain moment in time of living in a global pandemic and understanding our experience through participatory art. A Kitchen of One’s Own was commissioned for “Data/Set/Match”—a year-long program dedicated to analysing, interpreting, and visualising image datasets (burrough, Starnaman, and MacDonald). The image dataset we interpreted is Epic Kitchens’ 2018 collection. Epic Kitchens is a datase...

Mechanical Olympics (5 Minute Version)

Let’s Go Crazy is a remix project conducted as a video response sensation on YouTube. It engages ... more Let’s Go Crazy is a remix project conducted as a video response sensation on YouTube. It engages Stephanie Lenz’s court case against Universal Music Group (UMG), which sent a take-down notice to Lenz on YouTube for a 29-second home video featuring her 2 year-old son, Holden, dancing to the Prince song, “Let’s Go Crazy,” which is barely audible as background music. In short, it is a court case that demonstrates the imbalance between the role corporations play in the power dynamics between individuals who develop user-generated content and the interfaces used to share “free” media.

This project was co-created with students at California State University, Fullerton from 2008-13 using the now defunct YouTube "Video Response" feature.

I designed this app to augment a user-defined walk, and create a simulation of the experience of ... more I designed this app to augment a user-defined walk, and create a simulation of the experience of walking on a high-wire. Part balancing and athletic challenge, part game, part homage to Philippe Petit’s famous NYC high-wire walk, it enables anyone to experience what it’s like to perform a high-wire walk without leaving the ground. Users share one important behavior with a high-wire walker: they don’t look down! Instead, they view the screen while walking and the ground beneath them transforms into a wire with an aerial perspective of their selected route. Walk On Wire is a simple application using the Mapkit Framework to transpose a “high wire” (line) on two user-identified map points.

Mechanical Olympics

The Mechanical Olympics is a crowd-sourced, alternative version of the Olympic Games. Mechanical ... more The Mechanical Olympics is a crowd-sourced, alternative version of the Olympic Games. Mechanical Olympians hired from Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk virtual job board are encouraged to create their own interpretations of Olympic performances. Some are funny, abstract, or absurd, while others are mundane, literal translations of a sporting event. Payments are made on mturk.com, without bias toward the style of the video performance. Bonus payments have been delivered to past winners (videos with the most Likes on YouTube or favored in a poll). The winning performances tend to be funny or clever. If you'd like to contribute, sign up to be a worker on mturk.com (all you need is an Amazon account) and accept a HIT starting 1-month before the Olympic Games.

This project was a Webby Honoree in 2009 and inspired the Mechanical Games, funded in the UK by the Big Lottery Fund for its participation in the 2011 Abandon Normal Devices festival and 2012 Looping the Loop event hosted by Abandon Normal Devices.

ON THE WEB is a translation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 classic, "On The Road" for the modern web brow... more ON THE WEB is a translation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 classic, "On The Road" for the modern web browser. This was the fourth time I read Kerouac’s road novel. The last reading was for a hand-made letterpress-printed paper bag give-away presented at City Lights Bookstore in 2007. In this interpretation of the novel I crossed out every appearance of the word, “road” in my copy of the book and replaced it with the word, “web” to investigate whether modern life and web surfing are reflected in the original road-trip manuscript. (In many cases, the work still speaks to wanderers browsing the information superhighway or hitchhiking on the open road). Each page was scanned and uploaded into a design utilizing HTML5 and CSS3 that reflects the original manuscript scroll, enabling the user/reader to scroll through the text in a web browser. Readers can also skim through the book for the word “web” to test its integration into Kerouac’s 1957 context by clicking on the last occurrence of the word on any page where it is found.

This project was created with the help of TERMINAL, an annual award for net art from Austin Peay State University.

This participatory project was designed for students in my Digital Foundations course as a vehicl... more This participatory project was designed for students in my Digital Foundations course as a vehicle for experiencing digital, social activism, and learning about the DMCA, fair use, and appropriation. Students posted video responses to Stephanie Lenz's "Let's Go Crazy #1" video on YouTube in solidarity with her fair use case, Lenz v. Universal.

I wrote about this project extensively with media law professor, Dr. Emily Erickson, for the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy: http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/lets-go-crazy-lenz-v-universal-in-the-new-media-classroom/

Delocator.net launched in 2005 so users could locate independently owned cafés. The Delocator is ... more Delocator.net launched in 2005 so users could locate independently owned cafés. The Delocator is the opposite of an online retail store locator, common to corporate store websites.

As a social activism project, the site relies on the dedication of volunteers to update and maintain it. While I designed the original version of the site, the original database was developed by my student Vasna Sdeoung. In 2006 book stores and movie theaters were added to the database thanks to my student, Kyle Cummings. As of 2009, users are able to log in to the site, modify their entries and add more types of independently owned stores. Jim Bursch—a programmer I found on Craigslist—reprogrammed the site so the zip code function worked in all areas. In 2013, UK-based Tom Brickman reached out to me via email and volunteered to redesigned the site to incorporate an interactive map. Thanks to Tom, the site is beautiful (again--our ideas of "beauty" change online nearly every 9 or 12 months) as it meets current web design standards.

Corporate industries invading American neighborhoods, from coffee to book store and movie theater "chains", pose a threat to the authenticity of our unique neighborhoods. Although there is room on the map for shared territories - both the homogenous corporate enterprise and the independent ventures across the nation, our independent, community-operated businesses deserve your dime. Please see the Delocator "About" page to read the rest of this short article. Or, read an essay about this site and a couple of others that I wrote for Journal M/C: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0804/04-xtine.php

The League of Imaginary Scientists: In League with an Institution

by xtine burrough and Lucy HG Solomon

Foundations of Digital Art and Design, 2013

For artists and collaborators, revision is essential to the working process. Art is arguably a re... more For artists and collaborators, revision is essential to the working process. Art is arguably a revision of the world itself, certainly, a re-envisioning; and col¬ laborations require endless negotiation and restatements. Revision accounts for creative evolutions, is the product of conceptual decision making, and results in more developed work. When one works with an institution, revision begins with the proposal, and it becomes the focus again with institutional deadlines for press and publicity. Proposals are rarely accepted as initially conceived and written, and publicity must serve the institution first and the art second. There are many institutional considerations-and these typically don't concern artists. Our experience demonstrates this paradoxical element of institutional programming.

Ch18 Poetically Remixing the Archive

The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, 2021

In this chapter, burrough considers how remix has always been part of her creative practice with... more In this chapter, burrough considers how remix has always been part of her creative practice with emerging technologies. The author reflects on how, in her work, remix functions as a method that includes appropriation, juxtaposition, and computation, for engaging networked audiences in critical participation. burrough’s participatory art is shown in galleries and museums, as well as libraries, festivals, symposia, and academic conferences. As a hybrid artist—situated between academia and public cultural institutions—she writes for scholarly audiences and creates projects for the general public. In this chapter, burrough position herself as an artist engaged in critical reflection, but not as a “critical maker.” She describes her practice in the development of three collaborative projects: The Women of El Toro (2016), An Archive of Unnamed Women (2018), and A Kitchen of One’s Own (2020). Each project generates a poetic remix of an archive that served as the foundation upon which the project was built. For the Handbook, burrough traces remix throughout her creative practice and wrestles with her connections to, and disconnections from, the digital humanities.

Prototyping Experiences for Mobile Audiences

by Cassini Nazir and xtine burrough

Foundations of Digital Art and Design with Adobe Creative Cloud, 2020

The exercises in this chapter demonstrate how to prototype a basic experience on a digital device... more

Emerging Platforms for Artist Interaction

by Ellen Pearlman, PhD and xtine burrough

Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA2016 Hong Kong, 2016

Emerging Platforms for Artist Interaction is a panel that explores new ways artists use emerging ... more