Intermedial Agencies

The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics

Asun López-Varela Azcárate, Luis Martínez-Falero (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-98414-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Asunción López-Varela Azcárate is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, with a specialisation in intermedial semiotics. Luis Martínez-Falero is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Spanish Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Introduction: The expansive foundations of intermediality
Analogical thinking and media concepts: Insights into intermedial semiotics
Intermediality and cognitive semiotics: Foundations for a methodological proposal
Between words and paintings: Iconotext and ekphrasis in Spanish modernity
The shifting interfaces of art: Ekphrasis, intermediality, and the digital transformation
Between text and image: A brief perspective on adaptation
Automated art: Reimagining creativity from conscious creation to the cognitive non-conscious in digital worlds and AI-Art.
Intermediality, posthumanism and neomaterialism: Bridging media dynamics and material agency
Concluding remarks

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-98414-7 / 1032984147
ISBN-13	978-1-032-98414-8 / 9781032984148
Zustand	Neuware