
Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix – New Media-N Issue Published
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021): Forking Paths in New Media Art Practices: Investigating Remix
Published: Jan 15, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i1.809
https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/article/view/809
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.