The Reading Assignment

After reading the two articles this week I find myself imagining new ways of communication, in relation to my understanding of the text now. An important quote from the Dick Higgins reading is, "We must find the ways to say what has to be said in the light of our new means of communicating". Higgins describes how art is evolving in the traditions of how we make art today in comparison to the past, with our new skills and knowledge of practices to create original works that serve to portray a conceptual message. From Smith's reading I found it significant when he states: "[intermedial or exemplativist works] cannot be ends in themselves. Instead they always participate in the ongoing process of sharing an experience." This quote explains the significance of intermedia art as a continuous experience that artists participate in over time and also a way to communicate a experience of their within their art. The image I embedded below to represent the information for this week was the internet. The internet is one major source that allows intermedia to be created and combined in our digital world. The options to manipulate and overlap mediums on display that is widely accessible to all. The internet also does not come in one form. For example Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer are three well known browsers that allow people to access the database of an internet. In our current era the forms of communication are rarely in person, rather we receive calls, text messages, emails, web links etc. The main topic that is being discussed in both readings is: what is intermedia. To the best of knowledge intermedia is an art form that combines pure styles and mediums of art together to create new ways of viewing art in appropriated form.