Multi Medias
Friday March 23rd 2012, 9:26 am
Filed under: Concepts

(Results from search performed 30 aug 17.)

1. Multimedia (900M results)
1.1. (1960s, fine art): Describes a work that mixes any two or more media; largely replaced in current usage by intermedia. Possibly coined by Bob Goldstein.

1.2. (1990s, computer science): Describes a device that can display multiple types of media—sound, video, text, images, etc.

1.3. (1990s, popular): Describes a work in any medium either created or experienced using such a device; largely replaced in current usage by new media.

2. New media (1990s, media theory, 57M results): Describes works which are both created and experienced using a computer.

3. Mixed media (1950s, fine art, 37M results): Describes a work that mixes two or more visual media, often restricted to the disciplines of painting and sculpture.

4. Intermedia (1960s, fine art, 30M results): Describes a work that mixes any two or more artistic disciplines usually recognized as separate; popularized by the Fluxus group. Coined by Dick Higgins.

5. Hypermedia (1960s, computer science, 4M results): Describes an organized collection of media files that the user can move between at will. Wikipedia is a hypermedia system. Coined by Ted Nelson.

6. Transmedia (1990s, media theory, 4M results): Describes a narrative dispersed across multiple works in multiple media, each of which contains only a portion of the complete story. A long-running franchise like Star Wars can be considered as a single epic transmedia work. Coined by Marsha Kinder.

7. Rich media (2000s, design, 580K results): Describes works distributed via the internet that make use of sound and video, as opposed to images and text; largely replaced in current usage by new media.

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