Intermedia, but is it art?

Foster is able to break down intermedia in a unique and digestible manner. After reading, I have the idea that intermedia is a catalyst that process art and defines its genetic makeup. The reading, at first very convoluted, comes together at the end with the statement saying "but is it art?" This is a really important question when looking at different films director by auteurs. 

For example, in Steven Soderbergh's film The Limey, he frequently features dialogue and background sound from previous or future scenes juxtaposed with a current scene from the film. Dialogue that comes from one conversation, is all of a sudden dispersed throughout the film, explained for the first time over an hour after its chronological time has passed. It is used as a narrative flashback placed on top of a conversation. This slightly clarifies the scene and the plot to the reader. The sound is also disjointed and shifted in the film and suggesting different moods, meanings and continuity within the piece.

The relation to intermedia with The Limey is how for some, its convoluted structure can be represented as art for some, and not to others. Soderbergh tries to covey the emotion of the title character through the editing of the film, and in hope allow the audience to interact and fully understand what it going on.

Essentially in the film The Limey, the editing is an extension of the characters emotions which is used to shape and epic the plot for the film. Without the unique and unorthodox use of jump cuts and edits, the film would not convey the same message to the audience. Thusly, The Limey represents intermedia through its use of editing a s a catalyst and a vehicle to not only drive the plot forward, but develop the characters and shape the audiences understanding of them.