Artist #4: Andea Chewiwie

Fan videos are a testament to our recombinant culture. It's an example of taking work, cutting it cut, putting it out of context, and saying something new with it. YouTube is crawling with such videos. Many fans clamor to take their favorite movie, show, or any other type of video and re-edit it to say something completely new.

I figure this would be a good time to mention my sister in this series of artists blogs, as she is among the many who take part in this cultural phenomenon.

Andrea Chewiwie is painter, illustrator, musician, and fan video editor as of recently. While many of her works have yet to go online, the above is a good example of both recombinant culture and her work. She's taken Linkin Park, a popular rock group, and fused it with FMV's from Final Fantasy, a popular video game series, to create something entirely new.