The conflation of functionality into a singular body has created the Post-Medium Age, where the creation and communication of video, text, glyphs, icons, emojis, GIFs, movies, audio is not defined or seemingly related to the encasement or embodiment of the medium. All functionality is subsumed by the interface of the device.
To differentiate from movements in trans media, multi-media and new media, which are part of a 20th century paradigm of media as defined by each distinct medium, I have been calling this new language ‘nu media.’ Inspired by ‘nu jazz,’ a contemporary genre of jazz that blends acid jazz, electronic music and other musical styles, my project posits that we are no longer limited to think about media as defined by the medium. Rather, the 21st century is increasingly about what we say, not just how we say it.
We need a diversification of design principles as the reality of the device has transitioned our lives as mediated through the device for in some cases more than 8 hours a day with transaction based design principles that have bolstered digital autism, iDisorders and addiction. This calls for a re-thinking and regulation, pedagogy and experimentation of this space.
1. Recognition internet landscape as urban planning and Architecture 2. Diversification of that landscape design and internet urban planning
:: sensory ethnographies of IRL interactions translated for device mediated interactions, oceans, orchards, shinto services, sweat...all spaces, types :: internet muralism - bringing suprise, colour, shape and form back into our meanderings around the device mediated world and installation as our language for device mediated design :: beyond RGB and stretching the elasticity of our color spectrums and representation of reality aesthetically