Smith and Higgins Reading

          I found the both of these readings to be quite interesting. I thought that both the Higgins and the Smith reading provoked an emotional and personal response rather than an informative response to the reading. Smith discusses the stability of intermedia and how our exploration of intermedia has resulted in new forms, genres or media which can be identified as performance art, installation sculpture and sound art. This makes me think about how everything starts from a base and can grow from there reaching to different interests, forms and people. Similarly, Higgins considers aspects within art that focus on what we care about, what we love and even things that we hate. The strands of art that we enjoy or that speak to us as individuals should be what we continue to pursue as artists as this could be what creates new forms of art through our own personal exploration. Smith suggests that intermedia should also be seen as part of a process of creative innovation and question forming that spans the 20^th century. I believe that with this, it allows individuals to be apart of the creative process, question boundaries of intermedia and take the time to effectively convey that through new forms of communication.

I chose this photo as it demonstrates the various ways that something can be stretched into different forms, create different outcomes and influence different experiences, but still reside as the same original “something.” Similar to intermedia, it can take on many different forms but at the end of the day, it’s still intermedia (or still a potato...) From here, we can implement our own personal exploration and individualize it to our likes and dislikes fuelling the creative process.