Art, Media Design, and Postproduction

A concise guide to the creative application of appropriation and remix that offers a set of open-ended guidelines for art and design studio-based projects, this book explores creativity with emerging technology, including artificial intelligence.

Eduardo Navas is Associate Research Professor of Art and Digital Arts & Media Design, Associate Director of Access and Equity 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, USA. He researches and teaches principles of cultural analytics, digital humanities, and emerging technologies. Navas is author and co-editor of several titles, including Keywords in Remix Studies (2017), The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities (2021), The Rise of Metacreativity: AI Aesthetics After Remix (2023), and The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 2nd edition (2025).

Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction General Remix Principles and Key Terms Part 1: Media Production Chapter 1: Randomized Signification - Elements for Exchange Chapter 2: Analogized Codification - Mashups of Image and Text Chapter 3: Sampling Creativity - Material Sampling and Cultural Citation Chapter 4: Vectorial Pixels - Visual Aesthetics of Binary Code Chapter 5: Bifurcated Meaning - Infliction of Statements Essay: Modernism and Media Production Part 2: Metaproduction Chapter 6: Domesticated Noise - Manipulation of Sound Chapter 7: Visual Aurality - Image and Sound as Data Chapter 8: Versioning Time-Based Media - Reedits of Video and Sound Chapter 9: Time-Based Media in Physical Space - Loops in Video and Sound Installations Chapter 10: The Assemblage Gaze - Of Media and Humans Essay: Postmodernism and Metaproduction Part 3: Postproduction Chapter 11: Media Mashups - Appropriation and Remix of Image, Sound, and Text Chapter 12: Regenerative Motion - Correlated Time Based Media Chapter 13: Reflexive Mashups - Aesthetics of Data Driven Objects Chapter 14: Distributed Collaboration - Collective Work Across Networks Chapter 15: Aesthetics of Negation - The Negative Selective Process Essay: The Prefix and Post Production Part 4: Metacreativity Chapter 16: Visual Analytics: Image Mining and Artificial Intelligence Chapter 17: Textual Analytics: Text-Mining and Artificial Intelligence Chapter 18: Sound Analytics: Sound-Mining and Automation Chapter 19: Creative Prompts: Artificial Intelligence for Image and Text Production Chapter 20: Automated Bifurcations: Artificial Intelligence and Media Production Essay: Metacreativity and AI Aesthetics Index