So much media

This piece starts off listing so many different terms for media that my head began to spin. Once it was made clear that the focus of the piece was "post-media" things began to clear up a bit. He then spoke of the "generative" nature of post-media, which made me think of the internet. The same way that "mechanical recording and reproduction media" changed art in the earlier 20th century, the internet is changing art now.

The internet is a vast source of knowledge and it is a place where people can share and modify different forms of art. However, the internet, and data itself can be considered art on it's own. For example, take a look at what pepsi and Beyonce are doing for this year's super bowl half time show. By the power of the internet, and photo capturing technology they are creating the first ever crowd sourced half time performance. Another example of what I believe to be post media would be the new genre of Glitch Art, in which data is bent or tampered with, leaving a distorted image: