Intermedia

The Depiction of 9/11 in Literature The Role of Images and Intermedial References

by Sonia Baelo-Allué

more http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2011/111/184.full.pdf+html


The 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States has become one of the most represented disasters in history since it produced an unprecedented visual impact on those around the world who watched the second plane crash into the South Tower live on television. In an atmosphere in which reality resembled fiction, fiction was initially rejected as a suitable means for understanding and relating to the enormity of the events because it apparently had nothing to offer that journalism and the news could not provide. Ten years later, these initial misgivings have been overcome and 9/11 fiction has become a genre in itself. This essay explores the use of newspaper articles, radio transcripts, phone messages, e-mails, and interviews with eyewitnesses in Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World (2004); the use of moving images—a flip book—and other visuals inserted in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005); and the references to well-known photographs of 9/11 in Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007). These authors do not ignore the mediated nature of 9/11 but display it through the incorporation of other media in their fiction, which renders their representation of the trauma more effective.

Ἀοιδός, vates, performer – twórca hiphopowy jako artysta intermedialny

by Arkadiusz Sylwester Mastalski

(wersja autorska, w druku)

S y n o p s i s

This paper will analyze the hip-hop art composition as intermedial structure created from... more S y n o p s i s

This paper will analyze the hip-hop art composition as intermedial structure created from such elements as: the musical text, a spoken word (mediated between orality and phonographic recording), the visual image as well as performance art and multimedia show (components connected with hip-hop live concerts). Rapper's artistic creativity will be analyzed in connection with those elements, which placed it in the context of the archaic oral cultures, as well as those which reflect its postmodern character, are represented mainly by predilection to intertextuality, collage, stylistic and generic syncretism. In my opinion the multimedial text of hip-hop composition is linked between archaic and postmodern culture, so that the artist is able to overcome the typical communication limitations of contemporary art. Rap's concept of poetic imagination and language is based on the perception of reality that is so common and general that it can be understood by his recipients as their own. The consequence of this is the rapper's ability to perform the role of a creator of meanings and values. On the other hand, this paper will show how the innertextual persuasive mechanisms and rhetorical strategies allows hip-hop artists to maintain the privileged position to the consignee, and thus impose their own interpretations of the world. The analysis is based on the works of Łukasz Rostkowski (artistic nickname L.U.C.), especially on the album 38/89 Zrozumieć Polskę.

Kuala Lumpur downtown soundwalk with multimedia class

by Andra McCartney

Published in Entitle, the electronic magazine of the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University (No. 03, Vol. 01, August 2010: 16-17), Malaysia.

McCartney conducted a soundwalk in Kuala Lumpur’s downtown with a sound class from Multimedia University in late... more McCartney conducted a soundwalk in Kuala Lumpur’s downtown with a sound class from Multimedia University in late January 2010. You can hear (and see) the soundwalk on the accompanying youtube link. Comments are welcomed!

The agent takes the stage

by Sarah Bay-Cheng

The multi-author function: The construction of Karen Karnak

by Emit Snake-Beings

This paper is focused on the changes in authorship which have occurred within the comparatively recent developments of... more This paper is focused on the changes in authorship which have occurred within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia. The mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture, compared to that of a Read/Only tradition, is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names forms an important context to this study, which forms the preparatory stages of the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the creation of a collective multi-author pseudonym Karen Karnak.

Headline Haiku 2006

by Allan Revich

Fluxus Vision

by Allan Revich

Book Review: The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde. Edited by David W. Bernstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, …

by Andrew Raffo Dewar

Published in the Journal for the Society of American Music (2009) Volume 3, Number 2, pp. 243–246.

The Modern Alchemists

by Emit Snake-Beings

This is a rough draft awaiting revision and references - an adapted version will be available for publication upon request.

The art of the Alchemist seems lost in the deep haze of history, usually it is explained away as superstition or... more The art of the Alchemist seems lost in the deep haze of history, usually it is explained away as superstition or simply the forbearer of modern chemistry, however, it is still alive in modern society; although its methods, terminology and aims have adapted and evolved. This is an attempt to trace some of the manifestations of the Alchemist’s Art in the modern world; through an examination of the origins of the various disciplines contained within this ancient science.