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Expanded Media - and the MediaPlex 206/206 Post-script: Volume 2 of the MediaPlex
In the next volume of the MediaPlex, I will be documenting the trends in new media in a continuation of this ebook, going on through the important period 1900-1930 - a period that spans most of the ‘modern’ art movements, and the bulk of innovations that determined the mass media of the 20th century. We will explore ‘modernism’ and its iterations through Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Abstraction, De Stijl, Dada, the Bauhaus, Russian revolutionary art and Constructivism, and Surrealism, as well as the emergence of the popular mass media of the entertainment arts: the Radio, Movies, Animation, Comics, Music - especially of the Blues, Country, and Jazz. And furthermore we will document the changes in sensibility and awareness of a new ‘machine-age’ spirit of the age.
Volume 2 1900-1930
Future volumes will complete this overview of new media up to 2020. The accent throughout is on providing students, designers, and developers an intermedia contextual overview, and a record of the significant innovations in form and content that are the foundations upon which our 21st century global media ecosystem - our Mediaplex - is built.
We have invented a marvellous repository, an educationalists dream, an entertainment machine, a kindergarten-style sand-box, an innovation-engine that anyone with a few skills in writing, making pictures, designing, coding and developing can master. If you want to work in the cutting edge of new media - the ‘edge’ that now embraces new writing, new art, artificial intelligence, online-worlds, augmented reality, new apps, games, interactive movies, machine-learning, 3d CGI, immersive art, distance-learning, marketing, advertising, new product development, even a new counter-culture, then the MediaPlex is the place to start.
Bob Cotton Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight 2020.