Reuse Aloud

On 01/03/2013 we will take over the radio. For one month we will broadcast across the airwaves. There is no agenda; there is no pre-defined outcome. This is an inclusive action initiated by Will Strong and Rosanna Skett, hosted by basic.fm and The NewBridge Project. Reuse Aloud poses questions about originality in the digital age. Since the boom of the Internet in the mid 1990’s, culture has been revolutionized by the ready availability of ideas and inspiration on a global scale instantly. While appropriation within the arts existed previously, open source culture has accelerated the attainment and re-distribution of material. Data can easily be obtained from the online cache, re-appropriated and re-dispersed as new. We are part of the remix generation.

“A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original
version. Sometimes this term is also used for alterations of media or recreation
other than song. Remixing is the adoption, alteration, and recombination of pre-
existing cultural texts to create something new.”

Definition: ‘Remix’, Wikipedia

Chopped and changed, re-arranged and re-branded, collected and disseminated; the very essence of originality is being tested. Within this borderless exchange of data and ideas, artists choose to practice; gathering original sources and sowing the seed ‘remixed’. There is the potential to reach a wide audience quickly and work can be made cheaply or for free. Reuse Aloud questions; is work derived from a pre-existing, original source able to be unique on its own terms? Furthermore, when re-appropriating and publishing, can the titles ‘author’ and ‘owner’ apply?

Using the platform of basic.fm, Reuse Aloud will broadcast work that considers and embodies these questions. The basis of this project is Creative Commons, and more specifically the CC BY licence, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) the license that gives anyone free reign to mix, manipulate, re-work and share any material that is branded with it as long as you attribute the original creator, along with the new work. We invited people to engage with this theme by using pre-existing, CC BY licensed sources as a starting point. The transmission will be installed in the gallery setting at The NewBridge Project, making the radio physical and the broadcast interactive.

Reuse Aloud live events programme at NewBridge Project Space

16 New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8AW
Free, booking not required

The NewBridge Project Space will host a live events programme inspired by Reuse Aloud, including a 24 hour live broadcast marathon.

Live Opening: Featuring performances by Andy Ingamells, Rachel Magdeburg and Joe Pochciol.
Fri 1 March, 5-8pm

Meh Mogya (A Sample of Me) performance and talk by Larry Achiampong
Fri 8 March 6-8pm

The Flying Saucer led by artist Arnaud Moinet
Wed 13 March 6-8pm

24 Hour Broadcast Marathon
Fri 29, 6pm – Sat 30, 6pm