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Melanie McBride is a researcher at Ryerson University’s Experiential Design and Gaming Environments (EDGE) lab. See her About page for more information.
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Praxis 2.0: Escaping the edu-travelogue

By Melanie, on March 5th, 2011

Remix artist Pogo’s Disney remix “Alice”

In 2009, I came across the inspiring work of self-taught Australian remix musician Nick Bertke (aka “Pogo”). As a media teacher doing remix in my own media production classes, I was interested in learning more about Pogo and his creative process. So I interviewed him about it.

What I [...]

Remixing Wonderland: An interview with Pogo

By Melanie, on June 12th, 2009

Remix music video for Pogo’s Alice

A few weeks ago I came across this most amazing collision of music, animation and technology via a tweet from Youtube ethnographer Mike Wesch. This led me to ‘Alice’ (above), which led me to electronic music and mashup artist, Pogo. Given my own recent explorations of remix culture [...]