37 Art and Communication November 2006

ART AND MEDIA
 

Maria Teresa Cruz
Communication Sciences Department, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Portuguese

This paper adds some thoughts towards an assessment of the reasons and effects of the current centrality of the notion of «medium» in the arguments concerning the relations between art and communication and between art and technique, particularly the increasingly recurrent characterization of contemporary art and culture as post-medial or trans-medial.
Suggesting a deeper focus on the notion of medium — accomplished through a survey of the relations between medium, form and appearance —, the determining role of the medium in the production of fenomenality in the world and in art is thus disclosed.