Transparency

Meike Wagner

01/01/2010

Eng

In media contexts, the term transparency has two potentially contradictory accents. To draw upon Bolter and Grusin’s distinction, one denotes immediacy, a neutral perceptual impression made in the process of notionally immediate transmission; the other, hypermediacy, denotes the drawing of atten- tion to the devices of composition. Classical philosophy provides us with the con- cept of the “medium diaphanum”, which refers to the merging of a medium with the purpose of transmission, such that it is not recognised as an object itself [...] Current discourse on media art and intermediality, however, emphasizes precisely the opposite position; namely, the critical potential of intermedial art and its ability to break the “transparency illusion” of conventional media by making the medial structures themselves visible.

Sarah Bay-Cheng, Chiel Kattenbelt, Andy Lavender, Robin Nelson, (a cura di), Mapping Intermediality in Performance , Amsterdam University Press , 01/01/2010, Amsterdam
tipologia
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pp. 141-142

Transparency (Eng)