Fionnáin apžvelgė autoriaus Bernd Herzogenrath knygą Travels in intermedia[lity] (Interfaces: studies in visual culture)
Review of 'Travels in intermedia[lity]' on 'Import'
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Some good individual essays, but this collection of academic studies on 'intermediality' (a term that the book itself finds hard to define) is more like a compilation of disparate and sometimes unrelated ideas than a complete study. Many media seem sidetracked or belittled by the authors, most of all visual art.
The first two chapters give a definition for 'intermedia', arguing essentially that such an idea has always existed and that there are no 'hard borders' around media; this idea is quickly undone by the following chapters that place hard borders around each media analysed.
Three essays stand out - WJT Mitchell's Realism ad the Digital Image is a nice study on photo-manipulation; Julia Meier carries out an interesting study on contemporary music's media-blending (via contemporary philosophy) and Jay David Bolter has a strong final chapter on politics and social media.
Some good individual essays, but this collection of academic studies on 'intermediality' (a term that the book itself finds hard to define) is more like a compilation of disparate and sometimes unrelated ideas than a complete study. Many media seem sidetracked or belittled by the authors, most of all visual art.
The first two chapters give a definition for 'intermedia', arguing essentially that such an idea has always existed and that there are no 'hard borders' around media; this idea is quickly undone by the following chapters that place hard borders around each media analysed.
Three essays stand out - WJT Mitchell's Realism ad the Digital Image is a nice study on photo-manipulation; Julia Meier carries out an interesting study on contemporary music's media-blending (via contemporary philosophy) and Jay David Bolter has a strong final chapter on politics and social media.