Mashup and Reading Response - Tyler Dyet

Audio Video Mashup - Fearful

 Higgins and Smith reading

         While looking through the two readings for this week I found myself pondering how artists create their work. Higgins speaks of artists having to transform or alter their work to fit a broader medium. Musicians are poets and painters are sculptors, this is the idea of art having broader meaning. Regardless of where their art may have begun, artists can involve other art forms within their art. Higgins discuss intermedia as the blending or art, whereas a painting can speak to poetry even though there is nothing to read. Thus creating new hybrid forms of art, much like concrete poetry or happenings. Smith speaks to this idea when he states "Intermedia should also be seen as part of a process of creative innovation and question forming". He touches upon the same idea as Higgins but through a more analytical format, stating more facts than feelings. Smith also looks at an idea purposed by Higgins, where "intermedial works were an expression of an attitude, or worldview. Objects, books or experiences might be generated in the creative process, but fundamentally they were acts, not things." This idea forms why we create art, to further our own thoughts or ideals. Artists purpose a viewpoint on a subject, rather than simply creating an object. 

        An image that correlates to these readings and ideas is one created by Banksy. His work is formed around the idea of "intermedial works are expressions of an attitude, or worldview". Giving a fresh perspective through the mediums of art, purposes ideals and thoughts, rather than art as an object. This image consists of a protester about the throw flowers, instead of a more violent object. Banksy is giving us a fresh perspective on the ways we fight for things or allow ourselves to become violent. This image has meaning and purpose, Banksy is giving us his take on an issue.