Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 17:38:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Is there an avant-garde.


  Where are the new mediums and how are they
>being used?

At the present time the new mediums seeming to be doing little more than
mimicking the old ones this includes its qualities as a means of
distribution  -- for the most part I think we will have to wait until these
mediums and means  will have to reveal their inherent qualities  and we
will have to gain some mastery over its  means (programing, etc.) before
anyone will  do any significant or challenging with them.  In the meantime
we should perhaps think about the fact that  media not creates not only the
means of representation, its subject and content, but these are also the
product of their discourse network's (the means ofpresentation,
preservation and reproduction) effect on the author and audience alike.




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