vogmae interactive networked video practice

Multimedia is a term and a product which appears to have managed to monopolise the public, corporate, institutional, and political high ground in the debate about new media. Variously characterised as a synergy between existing media, a combination of text and visual data into a revolutionary recombination, or as an interactive and emancipatory text, multimedia has been promoted in terms that bring it dangerously close to an object that has more to do with Utopian projections about the next millennium than with what any of its fundamental claims might entail.