intermedia
- adjective
- /ˌɪntərˈmiːdiə/
- Jargon
- Her project was an intermedia exploration of dance and digital animation, showcasing the fusion of both art forms.
Examples
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The exhibition featured an intermedia installation that blended visual art with live music performances.
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Peter Szczepanik calls these references, "intermedia reflexivity," a strategy that attracts the reader's attention to the different features of each medium: "As one medium takes over and transforms the structural components of another, the hidden or automatized structural components of both media become defamiliarized."
Academic text (2014) -
This is your more intermedia analysis, so we'll ignore that for now.
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The results seem to support the argument that intermedia similarity of news agenda in certain contexts cannot be taken for granted.
Academic text (2016) -
In their latest work, the artists used intermedia techniques to create a dialogue between painting and sculpture.
Synonyms
A way of telling a story across different media like films, books, and games that feels real
A way of communicating that uses speech, images, and movement
A work that uses more than one kind of art, like painting or video
Relating to more than one art form, like music and painting
Appears across different media like books, films, and games
Compounds
- Specialized
A small yearly plant with bright orange coiled flower spikes seen in spring
- Specialized
A small artery in the head that supplies the middle part of the temporal lobe
- Specialized
A thin tissue layer between the front and back parts of the pituitary, usually joined to the back in adults
How Mixed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intermedia comes from the Latin parts inter- meaning 'between' and media meaning 'materials' or 'means', like the common word medium. So as an adjective it describes art that sits 'between' media or uses more than one material at the same time.