MELISSALAND

I’ve just signed the gallery up to host RIP: A Remix Manifesto. It is an open-source documentary about copyright and remix culture and looks like a great film.

The gallery will be hosting this film on Friday, June 12 @ 7PM. I’ll probably be working on adding other related content/speakers/music to the event throughout the next few weeks. If you’ve got any suggestions or ideas please let me know!

From the RIP website:

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 and shattering the wall between users and producers.

The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.

A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

Which side of the ideas war are you on?

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More info about the screening on June 12th here:

http://www.ripremix.com/2009/05/05/carrie-haddad-photographs/

I really hope that I MIGHT be able to attend this talk on Thursday night at the NY Public Library. (I was planning to be in the City all day today and that didn’t work out, so maybe this is the Universe making up for it)  - anyway, it looks like a really great event.

more info here

**UPDATE** - Apparently, this event is now sold out. Shit. (thanks Luke)