Abstract
A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as âparadataâ or artistâs statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.
Highlights
The Double Logic of Remediation "This is not like T V only better," says Lenny Nero in the futuristic film StrangeDays
The initial affiliation was our own, which began on the January evening in 1991 when President George Bush ordered the bombing campaign for what has been characterized as the first totally mediated war
We could trace the hook's descent to the resonances set in motion in September 1994, when one of us (JDB) decided to sit in on the graduate seminar the other (RC) was offering: "The Visual Genealogy of Multimedia." Each of us brought to that course the conception of one of the three genealogical traits that our book traces: JDB the trait of immediacy, which he was beginning to outline in a project whose earliest manifestation appeared on the Internet under the name of "Degrees of Freedom"; RG the trait of hypermediacy, which provided the organizing logic of the seminar
Summary
This book has its own genealogy. And like the genealogy of remediation, our book's genealogy is one of historical affiliations or resonances, not of origins. We might more precisely trace the book's beginnings to May 1996, when we were completing our first truly collaborative venture, a team-taught version of the original genealogy seminar, in which the contradiction between immediacy and multimediacy formed the organizing principle of the course It was in May 1996, in a meeting in his office with Sandra Beaudin, that RG was reported to have coined the term remediation as a way to complicate the notion of "repurposing" that Beaudin was working with for her class project. The genealogy of the book is well documented through that summer's emails: as multimediacy evolved into hypermediacy; as the initial idea for an essay (which was published in the fall 1996 issue of Confgwations)evolved into our plan for a book; and as we began to work through the way in which the concept of remediation helped to make sense of the apparent contradiction between our two logics of mediation.
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