Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Intermedia -Predictions and Myths

I have to say that we are already in Youngblood's predictive world and beyond, though some of the reasons he gives for past intermedia art being about myth I disagree with. Like the riots of the sixties being linked to a "body theatre"that they needed to represent physically... I think flash mobs are about that. But so much of the first part of the article has come true. Virtual environments, interactive video games and Disneyland has a 3D animation process that did in fact hit me in the eye!  I reacted to a cartoon bug that hit me in the head! I felt its wings, the buzz in my ear...was completely sucked into an animation environment. We do have films the size of a wristwatch, but when he poses the idea that we will communicate on very high psychic levels of neurological reasoning...I think not. Look at our fake reality shows engrossing a nation, people somehow still prefer Duck Dynasty over Occupy anything.We are internationalizing art though--maybe artists will break through the boundaries through intermedia.

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