Hovagimyan's On ***** Media focuses on explaining what he calls "post media," that being those works of art that are always changing and that cannot be copied exactly as they were seen previously. I found this concept very interesting once I understood what he was arguing, but getting to that point was a bit confusing. I'll agree with a previous post on this article that Hovagimyan did not cite enough sources to support and explain his definition of post media, making the article a little hard to follow. However, I believe that he was positing that post media often makes use of technology much more frequently than has been seen in the past. This is where I think his example of photography sort of replacing realist paintings comes into play. When photography became a popular practice, painters no longer needed to paint things as they really were and they could represent things through more abstract means.
Going back to post media's constantly changing form, I immediately thought of one of Félix González-Torres’s art installments. This piece is called “Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) and it consists of a pile of gold-covered candies from which the exhibit viewers are encouraged to take one. This pile of candy constantly changes its shape and size. I find this piece of artwork very interesting because it shows that nothing stays the same or lasts indefinitely. It also goes against what every gallery visitor knows as a rule with every other artwork: don't touch. “Untitled” (Placebo – Landscape – For Roni) is a perfect example of post media since it is always changing and cannot ever be reproduced exactly the same as it was, in either appearance or in its viewer's reactions to their chance to interact with the art. Below is a link to an article about this exhibit. http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/12/13/sweet_but_not_sugarcoated/
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