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03/07/2003 Archived Entry: "Remixing TV"

I'm currently looking into Parasitic/Tactical (in the deCerteau sense) expression, so this is really interesting: Marc Davis has created a tool that allows you to "remix" TV shows and commercials.

I love the implication ("culture jamming") that this is always somehow contestational (or do they mean "culture jamming" as in the music sense, more like a conversation and "playing-off"). I suppose it has to do with culture and accesibility. Very few of us will ever have any opportunity to use television as a creative tool (hell, or even view the content we'd like)-- and that a given, do we even think about it? So I suppose giving people the tools to manipulate their TV experience is a reasonable statement of subversion. Contrast this with gaming cultures, where its much easier to manipulate the digital content (of a single player game, in any event), and further, this may be encouraged or even facilitated. How contestational is the average game hack? It would seem more of a "culture jam" in the latter sense...