
Intermedial Agencies
The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics
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Intermedial Agencies
The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics
About this book
Intermedial Agencies: The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics explores how the arts continuously redefine and facilitate cross-media transformation through intermedial interactions. Drawing primarily on semiotics and neomaterialist approaches, López-Varela Azcárate and Martínez-Falero examine the symbiotic relationship between artistic innovation, material change, and evolving technologies, particularly digital media and AI. Through diverse case studies spanning historical and geographical contexts, the volume interrogates not only material and medial boundaries but also the shifting sociocultural landscape of intermedial dynamics. In response to complex technological and ecological challenges, the research situates human creativity within co-creative processes that engage the non-conscious co-agencies of non-humans and more-than-human.
Unlike existing literature, this volume adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach, bridging semiotics, art history, comparative literature, media studies, and cultural theory. It offers theoretical insights alongside a wide range of contemporary artistic practices, many of which address habitat destruction, environmental degradation, biotechnology, and other urgent concerns. Essential for scholars, students, and engaged readers, the book highlights a sociocultural shift towards a symbiotic, planetary, and sustainable paradigm—one that rethinks the responsible interrelations between knowledge systems, material intermedial practices, and human creativity within digital and AI-driven co-creation.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: The expansive foundations of intermediality
- 2 Analogical thinking and media concepts: Insights into intermedial semiotics
- 3 Intermediality and cognitive semiotics: Foundations for a methodological proposal
- 4 Between words and paintings: Iconotext and ekphrasis in Spanish modernity
- 5 The shifting interfaces of art: Ekphrasis, intermediality, and the digital transformation
- 6 Between text and image: A brief perspective on adaptation
- 7 Automated art: Reimagining creativity from conscious creation to the cognitive non-conscious in digital worlds and AI-Art
- 8 Intermediality, posthumanism, and neomaterialism: Bridging media dynamics and material agency
- 9 Concluding remarks
- Index