review of On **** Media

In the article, Hovagimyan arrayed multimedia, cross media and hybrid media, radio, telegraph, and so on. He started with painting, the oldest media art. In ancient Egypt, ancient Egyptians pursued Immortality by preserving their dead body. In the book, “What is Cinema”, Bazin held a point of Mummy Complex, meaning human beings are all trying to pursue immortality by preserving their perspective. This is the sin of painting, and it is photograph relieve painting from the sin.  There are minimum of human interruption between the preserving processes of photography, the photo was taken by just one click. However, in the article On **** Media, the author has an opinion that opposes Bazin. He thinks painting as a language, a communication rather than a preserving process. He claims that the procedures of photography (lightening and staging) distributing on the mess media are a way to see the art of media.

Later in the article, Hovagimyan asserts the heart of motion picture is the blurred line between recorded and reproduced. Later on, the economic use of time in filming becomes the start of multimedia art. In summery, the construction/deconstruction process of an image creates the basis of multimedia art. Personally, I think multimedia art is the intergrade emotion expression of an image that can only be down with the existing of digital devices.  I agree with what Hovagimyan stated about the multimedia basis.  He used silence cinema as an example to explain cross media and hybrid media.  Film is defiantly the best presentation of multimedia art, because film is from life but more than life. Every video is contrasted by individual images and bit of sound; the sound and image roll together and in a certain speed that created an illation of motion pictures. The beautiful illation is a reproduce of life, but more than life because of the economic use of time in structure of the story.  As a result, film language is the essential subject of multimedia art, and the construction/deconstruction process of an image creates the basis of multimedia art.