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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.
Response to Stephen C. Foster’s Video and Intermedia: Remarks on their relationship.
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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