following on from Steves earlier posting...
Gene Youngblood's 'Expanded Cinema' influenced me profoundly in
my work and was in fact at one stage my *only* reference point to
see my practise in a wider context.
As a preference to describe work, I have been using Youngblood's
term "Intermedia" for many years. It has none of the baggage of
'multimedia' or now 'new media'.
Youngblood's definitions include cinematic ideas at their root, but
not experienced within a traditional cinematic context - or gallery for
that matter. They also do not exclude a practise shifting across
areas of art, technology, science or psychology. It excludes specific
'media' or material other than audio-visual.
You can see the book as being 'of it's time' (it is) but it is also a
visionary and enthusiastic text packed full ideas in the area of this
discussion.
For me, he examines cinematic roots (routes) within then (1970)
new areas of work, most importantly for me fusing film makers –
Jordan Belson, Whitney Brothers, Jud Yalkut, etc along with Nam
June Paik... making a link from 'experimental avant garde film' to art.
The quote I have used and discussed before is a from Chapter
called "Artist as Ecologist" from Gerd Stern who was working with
USCO who formed the Intermedia Systems Corporation.
"Intermedia refers to the simultaneous use of various media to
create a total environmental experience for the audience. Meaning is
communicated not by coding ideas into abstract literary language,
but by creating emotionally real experience through the use of audio
visual technology. Originally conceived in the realm of art rather than
in science or engineering, the principles on which intermedia is
based are grounded in the fields of psychology, information theory,
and communication engineering."
I discussed these definitions in the early part of this talk in 2003.
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/wireless.htm
and also
in my text 'Bridging the Digital Divide' in 1998 in Issue 3 of
Filmwaves Magazine partly archived here.
http://www.filmwaves.co.uk
Pete
http://www.mutantfilm.com
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