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Capstone . New Media?

What Is New Media?
By:Vin Crosbie

New Medium for communications. It is a new communication medium that, like Sky for prior transportation media, bridges the mutually incompatible characteristics of prior communications media.

(Never thought "New Media" would be defined in such a one sentenced word. The reason why we never read this before this class, so we could tell our friend's what our major was is astonishing , :P)

So from my understanding it becomes new media when you are able to use a project/installation/etc. to further what was not able before. I would understand that this has a clear and conscise relation to such a transformation of analog to digital. Things become possible that never were before, opening up spaces.

This is key for any project, but all the time what I really wanted out of my project. All the time we are being fed information using "false mediums", and we never take the time to see what is possible, but not online or with a paintbrush, max msp, etc., but our very own lives. Hopefully, this project is a realization of the person through their experience. I believe so many people go on day by day voiding themselves of the outside world for whatever reason. Hopefully, people will want to get out and experience things once they see the amazing things going on in the world, and "Bridge" out their lives.

Mediums come in all sorts of forms, and it seems as though Crosbie is saying if those forms somehow combine other forms, or take those forms to a different level, it becomes part of the new media realm. What metonymy of "medium" was once implored would be the same as my project being a web site. Now, the web site is no longer the medium, so for me the ideology of the project becomes the new media portions of the project. The website is one way to convey the new media portions of the project.

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I agree with Crosbie mostly, he talks a lot in metaphors about Land, Water, and how Sky was revolutionary for those forms of "medium" or transportion, which are like metaphors.

A website can be a vehicle to display Mass Medium content, which indeed is how most newspapers, magazines, and broadcasts use it. However, that merely replicates online the hallmark limitations of Mass Medium vehicles and doesn't take advantage of the New Medium's ability

I think this is true to an extent, websites do do this in a sense, but it seems that when a project's reliance is partially on networked culture, you run into more problems. My entire project, I have been thinking about whether or not to couple my project with some sort of Experispace installation, which I may still, which may be a traditional new media (traditional new media?) jump as to bring out new qualities in the "transportation", but a lot of my project focuses on the transportation of the body as a medium, the life, and the stories.