Remediation

= about how the virtual re-mediates the physical

Description

"We must completely abandon the notion that there is a real and a virtual world, as if the two were opposed. Instead, we must look at how new media is layering over existing spaces, thus reorganizing them. Graham is building on the notion of Bolter and Grusin; remediation. It is constituted (the virtual) on top of our real world. Remediation is taking place constantly. Remediation of painting, film and television, of cities, houses and streets. The old notion of holographic pods, parallel worlds, cyberspace, does not exist. We are far from it." (http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2008/02/29/mobile-city-conference-stephen-graham-on-the-politics-of-urban-space/)