Hypermediacy

In Bolter and Grusin’s chapter Remediation: Understanding the New Media they consider remixing (called hypermedia) to be the artist’s way of defining a space through the disposition and interplay of forms that have been detached from their original context and then recombined, while the consider remediation to be the defining characteristic of the new digital media by identifying a media in a different spectrum; digital. Now that is a complete difference to Walter Benjamin in our previous readings, who saw the idea of media being reused and mass produced  as a negative (but unfortunately for him a necessary) thing. Bolter and Grusin however see it as a positive connotation and a way to express to the audiences that are consumed by hypermedia. They also differ from their belief. Benjamin believed that an audience needed to take in the art work and fast paced moving art didn’t affect the audience. Bolter and Grusin believed that because of the population and their need to get things done, that they want their art to affect them quickly. And I agree with Bolter and Grusin. We live in a face paced society where the time to slow down is very rare in a person’s life. As much as I would like to “lose myself in a painting” society won’t let me.