With an increasing push to opt for specialization in the current economic environment, Artist-Musicians, Musician-Artists by Justin Hoffmann, Sandra Naumann serves to be a calming point for my anxieties. The text served as a great and compact overview of multidisciplinary traditions spanning from the 20th century to early 21st century. Enamored by their descriptions for both artists I had heard about and hadn’t, I was prompted to check out a lot of these pieces while reading. Their highlighting of fashion icons like Vivienne Westwood and club spaces in LES were of particular interest to me, as I had been exploring intersections of fashion and club spaces with media arts in my writings at university over the last few years. The multi-modality of our major, Interactive Media, had always seemed a given to me since I had been engaging with various forms of media together even before I started this degree. The nature of this rabbit hole had always seemed a natural path, as starting out with music led me to start making album covers which led me to start making music videos, and this sequence kept building up till I ended up with video games, installations, websites or short films. However, realizing that this amorphousness of mediums is a relatively new turn of events which was spearheaded by experimental practitioners, I have gained a new appreciation and understanding of the depth of our medium

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