Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s. Fluxus —a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media Dick Higgins (born Cambridge England 1938 died Quebec Canada 1998 was a composer poet printer and early Fluxus artist The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 Thus, the areas such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting and theater could be described as intermedia. With repeated occurrences, these new genres between genres could develop their own names (e. g. visual poetry or performance art. Visual poetry, is Poetry or Art in which the visual arrangement of text images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work This article is about Performance art For other uses see Performance (disambiguation )
Higgins described the tendency of the most interesting and best in the new art to cross the boundaries of recognized media or even to fuse the boundaries of art with media that had not previously been considered art forms, including computers.
"Part of the reason that Duchamp's objects are fascinating while Picasso's voice is fading is that the Duchamp pieces are truly between media, between sculpture and something else, while a Picasso is readily classifiable as a painted ornament. Marcel Duchamp (maʀsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃ (28 July 1887 &ndash 2 October 1968 was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25 1881 &ndash April 8 1973 Similarly, by invading the land between collage and photography, the German John Heartfield produced the what are probably the greatest graphics of our century. A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing John Heartfield ( June 19, 1891 – April 26, 1968) is the anglicized name of the German Photomontage artist . . "
—Higgins, Intermedia, 1966)
With characteristic modesty, he often noted that Samuel Taylor Coleridge had first used the term. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 &ndash 25 July 1834) was an English Poet, Critic and philosopher
In 1968, Hans Breder founded the first university program in the United States to offer an M. F. A. in intermedia. The Intermedia Area at The University of Iowa graduated artists such as Ana Mendieta and Charles Ray. The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River Ana Mendieta ( 18 November 1948 &ndash 8 September 1985) was a Cuban-American artist famous for her Performance art and "earth-body" In addition, the program developed a substantial visiting artist tradition, bringing artists such as Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Karen Finley, Robert Wilson and others to work directly with Intermedia students. Dick Higgins (born Cambridge England 1938 died Quebec Canada 1998 was a composer poet printer and early Fluxus artist Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York -born Brooklyn-based Architect, Landscape architect Allan Kaprow ( August 23, 1927 &ndash April 5, 2006) was an American painter assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts Karen Finley (b 1956 Evanston Illinois) is a controversial American Performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and Robert Wilson (flourished 1572 &ndash 1600 was an Elizabethan Dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s The program is currently headed by Jon Winet (Xerox PARC Artist in Residence in the 1990s). PARC (Palo Alto Research Center Inc formerly Xerox PARC, is a Research and development company in Palo Alto California that began as a division of The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating The technical supervisor, and also an integral part of the culture of the Intermedia Area and graduate of the program himself, is Steven Strait.
Over the years, especially on the Iowa campus, "Intermedia" has been used interchangeably with "Multi-media. Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. " However, recently the latter term has become identified with mixed-media in the arts and electronic media in pop-culture. The arts is a broad subdivision of Culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. Electronic media are media that utilize Electronics or Electromechanical energy for the End user ( Audience) to access the content Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — While Intermedia values both disciplines, the term "Intermedia" has become the preferred term for interdisciplinary practice. In Academia, Pedagogy, Physical sciences, Earth sciences, Human sciences and Social sciences
Intermedia is also a non-profit NGO based in Pakistan that aims at promoting an informed, democratic and tolerant society by supporting and strengthening free media as an effective tool for social progress.
References
- Dick Higgins, Intermedia, Something Else Newsletter 1, 1966
See also
- Sound art
- Sound sculpture
- Sound installation
- Fine Art
- Conceptual Art
- Internews
- Classificatory disputes about art
- Interdisciplinarity
- Syncretism
- Media convergence
- Expanded Cinema
External links
Dick Higgins (born Cambridge England 1938 died Quebec Canada 1998 was a composer poet printer and early Fluxus artist Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963 It published many important texts and artworks by Higgins Gertrude Stein, George Brecht, Sound art is a diverse group of Art practices that considers wide notions of Sound, Listening and Hearing as its predominant focus Sound sculpture (related to Sound art and Sound installation) is an Intermedia and time based artform in which Sculpture or any kind of art object Sound installation (related to Sound art and Sound sculpture) is an Intermedia and time based artform Fine art is any Art form developed primarily for Aesthetics rather than Utility. Conceptual art is Art in which the Concept (s or Idea (s involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns Internews Network is an international non-profit organization that works to improve access to information for people around the world by fostering independent media and promoting open communications Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified In Academia, Pedagogy, Physical sciences, Earth sciences, Human sciences and Social sciences Syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory beliefs often while melding practices of various schools of thought Technological convergence is the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing similar Tasks Convergence can refer to previously Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood (1970 the first book to consider video as an art form was influential in establishing the field of Media arts.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic