ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the creative aspects of combinatorial inventiveness in new media art practices and point to some of the conceptual parallels and shared methodologies in digital humanities. With regard to diverse manifestations of combinatorial inventiveness in new media art, the author focuses on generative artworks created primarily by processing the material from cinema, television, and the Internet. The author outlines the theoretical considerations that can be abstracted from the examples and elaborate on them in the final part which examines the artists' motives and circumstances of analogizing, generating ideas, and meaning making in relation to the cognitive implications of artifactual creativity. Combinatorial inventiveness in the arts and culture manifests in a range of creative procedures such as mashup, remix, pastiche, interpretation, free copy, allusion, citation, derivation, detournement, reprise, reference, reminiscence, homage, parody, imitation, forgery, and plagiarism.
