Mediated Environment across Oceans and Countries

Abstract

Intermedia (poetry-film-computer-video-smartphone) involves people living in a mediated world. We perceive and process the world through e-products. Some of these are assembled and produced by the manual labor of Chinese workers on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and consumed by customers everywhere in the world, and the resultant e-waste is often shipped across the ocean, back to China. In a world of socio-ecological crises, many people have taken up intermedia as a form to expose the horrors of the global chain of manufacture and consumption, the dehumanizing aspect of the assembly line, the brutality of animal products, and globally manufactured waste. Film, videos, and poems tell stories about the reification of the everyday and the exploitative nature of transnational capitalism.