After reading Foster’s article, I have a better
understanding in intermedia and why video is a good medium to represent
intermedia art. As a medium itself, video already has a lot of components such
as image and sound. Also, video also could record what they want to show us.
While I was searching intermedia videos, I found an
interesting video called “I will not come when you call”. I think it is a good
example to express intermedia. First of all, I could say this video is also an
example for multimedia. As an artwork, it is consisted with different kinds of
art forms, such as video, song, dancing. Most importantly, it is also with a
strong intention. Performers combined flashlights with sound in rhythm very
well. People would be pushed to follow the steps and also questioned what would
happen next at the same time. It reminds me a sentence from the article “Video
is an extension of ourselves because we can no longer distinguish between
ourselves and TV-type technology without what McLuhan has called
anti-environment. ” Most of the time, I did not even realize I was watching a
video. I felt like that I was just watching a show. Video itself make their
performance became an intermedia work.
As for me, I do not truly agree with the saying that intermedia
is a specific political intention, which was expressed by multimedia. Further
more, it could some intention other than political. However, as for the
sentence that “but is it art?” I believed intermedia is a kind of language
rather than an artwork. No one would question whether it fits the rules of art,
since it already passed a message while people appreciating it.
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