Video as Intermedia
In the Spring 2005 issue of Canadian Art Magazine there is a three part feature article by "media arts legend" Tom Sherman called VIDEO 2005. The first part is titled "video (intermedia)".Whenever I see video described as being "intermedia" I generally say, "Here we go again, another artist or writer who doesn't know the difference between multimedia and intermedia". But being interested in both multimedia and intermedia, I read the articles anyway. Sherman's article was different than most because it turns out that he knows the difference between intermedia and multimedia very well. In fact, he quotes Dick Higgins in the third papragraph of the article. Sherman uses a 1966 quote by Higgins ("Much of the best work being produced today seems to fall between media") to argue that video is the "between media" medium that Fluxus was missing in the 1960s.
While I credit Tom Sherman for basing his article on solid research and for giving credit to Dick Higgins and Fluxus, I would dispute his conclusion that video is intermedia, or even that video is the medium best suited to documenting intermedia. Fluxus is too fluid to be limited to any medium. And Higgins' and Friedman's idea of intermedia would extend to video as well; video is just another concrete medium, albeit one with more flexibility than most others. Still, intermedia is what is occurring between media, including between video and other media.
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