File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/avant-garde.9704, message 24


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.




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