UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Eduardo Navas, research professor of art and digital arts & media design, and B. Stephen Carpenter II, Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Dean in the College of Arts and Architecture, will discuss Navas’ recently published book, “Art, Media Design, and Postproduction: Open Guidelines for Appropriation and Remix,” on Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in the Woskob Family Gallery, located at 146 S. Allen Street in downtown State College.
Published in 2025, the book serves as a practical and theoretical guide for using appropriation (borrowing or reusing existing elements) and remix culture in art, media and design studio projects.
In the book, Navas divides the material into four main parts: “Media Production,” “Metaproduction,” “Postproduction” and “Metacreativity.”
- “Media Production,” includes guidelines written to explore basic principles of the creative process common during the early and mid‑twentieth century, under the umbrella of modernism.
- “Metaproduction,” offers guidelines written in response to questions about art and media that emerged during postmodernism.
- “Postproduction,” focuses on the emerging efficient state in which we currently find ourselves, which overlaps the stage of metacreativity.
- “Metacreativity,” brings together elements from the previous three parts to provide interdisciplinary approaches for analysis and creative production with data analytics and the increasing implementation of artificial intelligence in art and media production.
The book also offers readers open-ended guidelines for project goals, historical context and real-world relevance.
Navas, who came to Penn State in 2008, researches and teaches about art and media design in the Penn State School of Visual Arts. He implements methodologies of cultural analytics and digital humanities to research the relation of emerging technology, art and media in culture. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters and has presented and lectured about his work and research internationally.
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