Remediation: Understanding New Media

  • ‘genealogy of remediation’
  • ‘our book’s genealogy is one of historical affiliations or resonances, not of origins’
  • the double logic of immediacy and hypermediacy
  • characterising remediation as reform
  • ‘transfer of experience’s in fact a remediated first-person film, ‘subjective camera’
  • virtual reality has the goal of unmediated visual experience but the physical infrastructure is hypermediation
  • ‘live’ TV and POV TV
  • period accuracy in historical drama as a seamless experience that is in fact painstakingly created and framed
  • futurism as a design style and how it obsessively mixes styles and forms of media
  • ‘immediacy depends on hypermediacy’
  • VFX and the compositing passes and complex technical requirements underneath
  • in efforts to provide the most up to date info in the most completeness, there’s a whole infrastructure of sensing and processing and displaying
  • whenever one media has convinced you of immediacy the others try to appropriate it, eg web news and video news and TV news all copying each other
  • simulation games, stretching further from tangible experience through the layers of mediation
  • art also often denies the presence of the medium
  • perspective and lighting tricks used in traditional and digital art in similar ways, and also now in 3D digital environments and VR
  • dual icon/graphic and text function can be seen in analogue and digital mediums — dual role that integrated two forms of media
  • references as the printed equivalent to hyperlinks
  • (are then ‘peek’/previews of links a further level of this, combining the link and the content itself, as in some citation? And some link previews/icons combine visuals with the links as well as the text)
  • computer graphics and the web presenting themselves as new and improved forms of other media
  • digital media can be understood in the ways they honour, rival and revise linear-perspective painting, photography, film, television and print
  • no medium does it’s cultural work in isolation from other media or from socio-economic forces

  • the promise of reform makes us more aware of the medium as a medium

  • “our book’s genealogy is one of historical affiliations or resonances, not of origins.” (View Highlight)