Remediation

Nowadays I am reading a book names "Remediation". It is about new media. It mentions that the new digital media is between immediacy and hypermediacy, between transparency and opacity. This oscillation is the key to understanding how a medium refashions its predecessors and other contemporary media. And "remediation" is the formal magic by which new media refashion prior media forms.
The logic of Immediacy is that : A medium purpose is to disappear. The goal of the virtual reality is to foster in the viewer a sense of presence : the viewer should forget that she is in fact wearing a computer interface and accept the graphic image that it offers as her own visual world. Virtual reality, 3D graphics, and graphical interface design are all seeking to make digital technology “transparent”. A transparent interface would be one that erases itself, so that the user is no longer aware of confronting a medium, but instead stands in an immediate relationship to the contents of that medium.

Hypermedia is a new kind of media experience born from the marriage of TV and computer technologies. Its ingredients are images, sound, text, animation and video, which can be brought together in any combination. It is a medium that offers random acces; no physical beginning, middle or end.

Along with immediacy and hypermediacy, remediation is one of the three traits of our genealogy of new media.

In modernist art, the logic of hypermediacy could express itself both as fracturing of the space of the picture and as a hyperconscious recognition or acknowledgement of the medium. Collage and photomontage in particular provide evidence of the modernist fascination with the reality of media. Just as collage challenges the the immediacy of perspective painting and photomontage challenges the immediacy of photograph. Photographs pasted beside and on top of each other and in the context of other media, such as type, painting, or pencil drawing, create a layered effect that we also find in electronic multimedia. As we look at Richard Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing ? Its cluttered space makes us aware of the process of construction. We become hyperconscious of the medium inphotomontage, because conventional photography is a medium whit such loud historical claims of transparency. The artisit is defining a space through the disposition and interplay og forms that have been detached from their original context and then recombined.
(Remediation, Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin )