Editing Intermedia (section)

==Characteristics==

The areas such as those between [[drawing]] and [[poetry]], or between [[painting]] and [[theatre]] could be described as intermedia. With repeated occurrences, these new genres between genres could develop their own names (e.g. [[visual poetry]], [[performance art]]); historically, an example is [[haiga]], which combined brush painting and [[haiku]] into one composition.<ref>''Classic Haiku'' ed. [[Tom Lowenstein]], London: Duncan Baird Publishers, 2007, {{ISBN|9781844834860}}.</ref>

[[Dick Higgins]] described the tendency of what he thought was the most interesting and best in the new art to cross boundaries of recognized media or even to fuse the boundaries of art with media<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artpool.hu/Fluxus/Higgins/intermedia2.html|author=Higgins, Dick|title=Statement on Intermedia|website=Artpool|publisher=[[Something Else Press]]|location=New York|year=1967}}</ref> that had not previously been considered for art forms, including computers.

{{blockquote|Part of the reason that [[Duchamp]]'s objects are fascinating while [[Picasso]]'s voice is fading is that the Duchamp pieces are truly between media, between sculpture and something else, while a Picasso is readily classifiable as a painted ornament. Similarly, by invading the land between [[collage]] and [[photography]], the German [[John Heartfield]] produced what are probably the greatest graphics of our century ...|Higgins|''Intermedia'', 1965, ''Leonardo'', vol. 34, No. 1, p. 49}}

With characteristic modesty, [[Dick Higgins]] often noted that [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] had first used the term.<ref>Coleridge, Samuel 'Lecture 111 : On Spenser'</ref>