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As coined in the writings of
Marshall McLuhan,
metamedia referred to new relationships between
form and content in the development of new
technologies and new . McLuhan's concept described the totalizing effect of media.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the term was taken up by writers such as
Douglas Rushkoff and
Lev Manovich. Contemporary metamedia, such as at Stanford, has been expanded to describe, "a short circuit between the
academy, the
art studio and
information science exploring media and their archaeological materiality." The MIT lab's mission is to provide a flexible online environment for creating and sharing rich media documents for learning on core humanities subjects. It is lead by
Kurt Fendt (co-Principal Investigator and Manager of the Metamedia project) and
Henry Jenkins.
Stanford's lab is principally facilitated by
Michael Shanks with other collaborators, including
Howard Rheingold and
Fred Turner. In its mission statement, it describes itself as a "creative studio and laboratory space for experimenting and taking risks...a democratic and collaborative assembly of archaeologists, anthropologists, classicists, communications experts, new media practitioners, performance artists, sociologists, software engineers, technoscientists, and anyone else who wants to join." A recent project is Life Squared (aka Life to the Second Power), an animated archive of the work of artist
Lynn Hershman in the online world
Second Life. Life Squared is one endeavor of The Presence Project, a live metamedia
performance art project within the Metamedia lab.
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