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ERIC Number: EJ772107
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-8510
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Hypermediated Art Criticism
Taylor, Pamela G.; Carpenter, B. Stephen, II
Journal of Aesthetic Education, v41 n3 p1-24 Fall 2007
Technological media catapults our perception into what Marshall McLuhan called "new transforming vision and awareness." As our lives become more and more immersed in such technologies as television, film, and interactive computers, we find ourselves inundated with a heightened sense of mindfulness--an aesthetic experience made possible through such computer technological characteristics as hyperlinks, hypermedia, and hyperreality. In these terms, the prefix "hyper" represents various linking devices inherent to computer technology that allure and transport us between, above, below, and toward vast areas of information, places, and peoples. Hypermediacy, according to Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver, is "an entirely new kind of media experience born from the marriage of TV and computer technologies. Its raw ingredients can be brought together in any combination. It is a medium that offers random access; it has no physical beginning, middle, or end." In other words, there is no set or static structure inherent in technological media. It is not so much an "anything goes" apparatus as it is an "anything is possible" system. The seemingly vast possibilities inherent to technological media offer us many and alternate views of the world.(Contains 10 figures and 46 notes.)
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Language: English
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