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Remix 4: Remix Artists for Research

  • Writer: Corrina Crazie Espinosa
    Corrina Crazie Espinosa
  • Oct 8, 2024
  • 7 min read

Updated: Oct 13


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Here is a large list of artists using Remix in their work that you could choose from. You do not have to choose an artist from this list, but you can if you would like to.


I suggest finding an artist whose interest intersects with yours.


Remember that you need to practice REMIX in your creative project. You can do this in multiple ways, and your chosen artist should be an influence in how you approach this.


Please let me know if you have any questions, I am always happy to help.

🎞 Pioneers of Remix & Appropriation

  • Marcel Duchamp – Turned everyday objects (“readymades”) into art, reframing meaning through context.

  • Hannah Höch – Dada collage artist cutting up magazines to critique gender and politics.

  • John Heartfield – Used photomontage to remix Nazi propaganda into biting satire.

  • Richard Hamilton – Combined pop culture and advertising to invent Pop Art.

  • Robert Rauschenberg – Collaged photos, paint, and found images into chaotic visual remixes.

  • Sherrie Levine – Re-photographed famous works to question originality and authorship.

  • Barbara Kruger – Remixing media images and bold text to expose power and consumerism.

  • Louise Lawler – Photographs other artists’ works in context, remixing the art world itself.

📸 Contemporary Appropriation & Photographic Remix

  • Cindy Sherman – Performs in her own photos, remixing film tropes and identity.

  • Richard Prince – Re-uses ad photos and Instagram posts to test authorship laws.

  • Sara Cwynar – Layers analog photos, scanned ads, and digital prints into feminist collages.

  • Penelope Umbrico – Collects online images (like “sunsets”) to show digital abundance.

  • Hank Willis Thomas – Samples advertising and sports imagery to expose racial stereotypes.

  • Deborah Roberts – Hand-cuts photos to build new Black identities from media fragments.

  • Mickalene Thomas – Re-creates art-historical scenes with Black women and rhinestones.

  • Wangechi Mutu – Collages magazine clippings into hybrid mythic female forms.

🧠 Archive, Culture & Institutional Remix

  • Fred Wilson – Rearranges museum collections to expose hidden histories.

  • Theaster Gates – Remixing abandoned buildings and archives into community art.

  • Kara Walker – Re-mixes racist imagery in silhouette to critique historical narratives.

  • Lorna Simpson – Combines text, photography, and film to remix Black female identity.

  • Carrie Mae Weems – Uses staged photos and found text to re-author history.

  • Glenn Ligon – Remixing literature and language around race and queerness.

  • Yinka Shonibare CBE – Re-creates European art using African textiles to remix colonial history.

  • Firelei Báez – Layering historical maps and portraits to reclaim erased narratives.

💥 Pop, Street & Graphic Remix

  • Guerrilla Girls – Remixing advertising and statistics to expose sexism in art.

  • Shepard Fairey – Adapts propaganda graphics for political commentary (e.g., HOPE poster).

  • Jenny Holzer – Text-based interventions remixing language and power.

  • KAWS – Remixing cartoon icons into collectible sculpture.

  • Swoon – Street wheat-paste portraits combining printmaking and activism.

  • Deborah Kass – Appropriates Warhol and pop culture to center queer/feminist voices.

  • Tavares Strachan – Re-inserts forgotten Black and Caribbean figures into history.

💻 Digital, Post-Internet & Glitch Remix

  • Cory Arcangel – Hacks Nintendo games and YouTube videos to remix pop culture.

  • Hito Steyerl – Mixes internet detritus, video, and theory to critique digital capitalism.

  • Amalia Ulman – Performed a fake influencer life on Instagram as social media remix.

  • Petra Cortright – Uses webcam filters and digital painting to remix identity.

  • Jon Rafman – Curates Google Street View and game worlds as found footage.

  • Sondra Perry – Remixing digital avatars and 3D scans to talk about race and visibility.

  • Martine Syms – Combines video, memes, and performance to remix Black media tropes.

  • LaTurbo Avedon – Virtual artist remixing identity through an avatar.

  • Eva & Franco Mattes – Early net artists remixing stolen internet content into critical art.

  • JODI – Deconstruct websites and games to reveal the code beneath.

🧬 AI, Data & Computational Remix

  • Refik Anadol – Feeds datasets into AI to create immersive “data paintings.”

  • Mario Klingemann – Uses neural networks to remix portraiture and art history.

  • Anna Ridler – Trains AI on her own drawings, remixing the machine gaze.

  • Sougwen Chung – Collaborates with robotic arms to remix drawing and performance.

  • Stephanie Dinkins – Works with AI to remix oral histories of Black women.

  • Morehshin Allahyari – 3D-prints and remixes destroyed artifacts as feminist activism.

  • Memo Akten – Uses code to remix movement, nature, and data aesthetics.

  • Zach Blas – Remixing biometric technologies into queer, speculative forms.

🖼 Global Remix Voices

  • El Anatsui (Ghana) – Recycles bottle caps into shimmering tapestries of global trade.

  • William Kentridge (South Africa) – Animates charcoal drawings, remixing memory and history.

  • Njideka Akunyili Crosby (Nigeria/US) – Collages photo transfers and paint to depict hybrid identity.

  • Tania Bruguera (Cuba) – Remixing political systems through performance and social practice.

  • Carlos Amorales (Mexico) – Re-codes symbols and archives into new visual languages.

  • Rosângela Rennó (Brazil) – Reuses discarded photos from archives to explore memory.

  • Shirin Neshat (Iran/US) – Combines photography and calligraphy to remix East/West identity.

  • Cao Fei (China) – Mixes gaming, performance, and factory life in surreal remixes.

  • LuYang (China) – Remixing anime, religion, and neuroscience into chaotic digital universes.

🌈 Indigenous & Queer Remix

  • Kent Monkman (Cree) – Paints colonial scenes with his alter ego Miss Chief to remix history.

  • Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee) – Fuses Indigenous craft, pop lyrics, and beadwork.

  • Skawennati (Mohawk) – Creates machinima films remixing Indigenous futurisms.

  • Jacolby Satterwhite – Remixing family drawings, queer identity, and 3D animation.

  • Zackary Drucker – Reframes trans identity through photo and performance remix.

  • Wu Tsang – Combines documentary and fantasy to remix queer and migrant narratives.

  • Jes Fan – Remixing materials (silicone, hormones, glass) to question identity biology.

  • AA Bronson / General Idea – Rebranded the AIDS logo as critical media remix.

🪡 Feminist & Ethical Remix Voices

  • Martha Rosler – Collages domestic imagery with war photos to expose media manipulation.

  • Dara Birnbaum – Remixing TV shows (like Wonder Woman) to reveal gendered tropes.

  • Carrie Mae Weems – Reclaims representation through staged, narrative photos.

  • Carmen Winant – Remixing feminist archives into wall-scale collages.

  • Andrea Bowers – Appropriates activist graphics into fine art contexts.

  • Sondra Perry – Questions who controls representation in digital remix culture.

  • Hito Steyerl – Theorist-artist examining ethics of remix in the age of the internet.


Here is a list of AI tools that you can explore as you work on creating the creative part of this project. You are not required to use AI, but you are required to combine a analog process (drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, etc.) with a digital process (digital paint/drawing, animation, creative coding, glitch, projection, video, AI etc.).


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