Higgins - Marc Lew

Reading through the Higgins reading it really felt like a sort of manifesto. Some of his wording in his statements felt very... grandiose and cult-like? The first paragraph has got to be one of the most hippy things I've read and I honestly felt insecurity in it. By the second line he's talking about how art is attacked and then immediately goes on to attack the 'authorities.' And I'm not sure I get his point, to be perfectly honest.

"Does it not stand to reason, therefore, that having discovered the intermedia (which was, perhaps, only possible through approaching them by formal, even abstract means), the central problem is now not only the new formal one of learning to use them, but the new and more social one of what to use them for?"

I have no idea what this means. I guess he's trying to figure out where Intermedia lies and how we should be approaching it. Earlier in the reading, he refers to Intermedial approach as the "dialectic between media." Basically, how intermedia is the formal approach to combining different forms of media and creating something wholly unique.




This image, I feel, is a good representation of Intermedia. It combines 2D artwork with 3D - prop work with paint.