Reading List
Unit 1: What is Intermedia?
Critical perspectives of "media" (systems, ecology, archeology, deep time), differences between "inter-", "multi-" and "new" media, audiovisual/media theory.
- Burnham, Systems Esthetics (1968)
- Freidman and Díaz, Intermedia, Multimedia, and Media (2018)
- Higgins, Intermedia (1966)
- Kaprow, Happenings in the New York Scene (1961)
- Leroi-Gourhan, Technics and Language (1993)
- Maciunas, Fluxus Manifesto (1963)
- McLuhan, The Medium is the Message (1964)
- Parikka, Materiality Grounds of Media Culture (2015)
- Youngblood, The Artist as Ecologist (1970)
- Zielinski, A Deep Time of Media (2006)
Unit 2: Audiovisual Transformation
- Blas et al, Chart of Transitions (2025)
- Cárdenas, Algorithmic Analysis (2022)
- Coccia, Metamorphoses (2021)
- Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto (1991)
- Morton, excerpts from All Art is Ecological (2018)
- Russell, Glitch Feminism and the Genesis of Glitch Body Politic (2013)
- Serra, Verb List (1967)
- Tuin and Verhoeff, Trans-, Transing (2022)
- Youngblood, Syncretism and Metamorphosis Montage as Collage (1970)
Unit 3: Gestural Interfaces
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Mapping Intermedia
- Appleton, A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden (2020)
- Blas et al, Chart of Transitions (2025)
- Hertz, A Definition of DIY (2023)
- Hess, Reconsidering the Rhizome (2008)
- How Wikipedia Changed the Way We Access Knowledge (2024)
- Moulthrop, Rhizome and Resistance (1994)
- Patel and Moore, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (2017)
- Wikipedia and the power of collective knowledge (2024)
Media Art Wikis
- carrier-bag.net
- How Wikipedia Changed the Way We Access Knowledge (2024)
- Monoskop (2009-2026)
- See This Sound, An Audiovisual Compendium (2009)
- Wikipedia and the power of collective knowledge (2024)
Glossaries + Encyclopedias + Anthologies
Audiovisual Art
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Professional Practice
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Art Journals + Magazines
- e-flux journal — peer-level critical writing
- Hyperallergic
- Neural
- Furtherfield
- APRJA
- Parse Journal
- Media-N
- Real Life Mag
- The Creative Independant
- Spike Magazine
- Mute Magazine
- Constant
- Hackteria
Intermedia Related Academic Journals
- JSTOR
- continent. - open-access, experimental academic writing
- Leonardo (MIT Press) - art, science, and technology
- TDR/The Drama Review - performance and interdisciplinary practice
- Convergence - new media and culture
- Afterimage - video and independent media
Art Databases + Archives
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Institutional Media Art Collections
- MoMa Collections
- Tate - Time-based media + Installation
- Whitney
- Smithsonian - fluxus + performance