This week has posed many great questions about Media and what it is. I had always assumed that ‘media’ by definition, encumbered any form of communication, socials, or art form that was creative and created from digital elements.
This, in retrospect, fits perfectly into my generation Z view of the world. From our class brainstorming, I was open to the idea or reminder that Media includes anything broadcasted or shared to an audience; Market Business News (2023) writes, “[Media] describes the various ways through which we communicate in society.”¹ Media has come to mean ‘the communication of the maker of a sharable product and its audience.’ The term ‘Media’ is the making of art, journalism, or anything to be shared using the senses of sight, hearing, and touch, and how an audience views it, interprets it, and embodies the product they have received.
From the reading this week, I feel its greatest point lies within its contradictions. While suits can give titles or agency to their work and process, to create and to be a media maker is to be free not to know the path or outcome. Ingold (2011) says, “A work of art, I insist, is not an object but a thing… and the role of the artist—as that of any skilled practitioner— is not to give effect to a preconceived idea, novel or not, but to join with and follow the forces and flows of material that bring form of work into being.”². This was reinforced by the creation of origami, seeing the forces and flows on paper…
and form the paper into a crane.
Reference List
- MBN (2023) What is Media? Definition and Meaning, Market Business News Website, Accessed 4 March 2023. https://marketbusinessnews.com/financial-glossary/media-definition-meaning/
- Ingold T (2011) Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge, and Description, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 219-228. ProQuest Ebook Central Website, Accessed 4 March 2023. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rmit/detail.action?docID=684030.