Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:41:09 -0400 From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda) Subject: Re: intermedia >>I don't think this is mine in that while I made reference to the end of the >>reign of the panoptic I would have never premised the global village on it >>but merely the end of the fragmentation of the senses associated with >>modernism. The reason that the digital may be discribed as constituting >>what is concieved of as intermedia is that it is, once fully realized >>connstitute a universal medium-- the same zero's and one's can be played >>out as text, image,music, animation, sensation, etc. The global village >>snd its accompanying conception of the nomadic and the tribal were >>concieved of as being effects of capital re-enforced by television and is >>premised on the sense of immanence that htis medium induced which is >>significantly different that that of the virtual associated with the >>digital. So I'll take credit for the first half of this quote, Therefore I >>am responsible for the phrase "an Intermedia" It should have read a form of >>intermedia. If I wrote the second half I apologize and must have been >>possesed by some strange virus spread via the pages of Wired. >> >Wouldn't we rather call this "mixed media?" > >No because the digital potentially results in a hypertextuality in which >the differing effects associated with the arrayof mediums that had once >resulted from the individuation and machinical objectification of our >varied senses not only combine butpenetrate one another establishing a >ultr-thin interface between differing effects while liquating the very >concept of different media. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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