I really really enjoyed this reading, particularly because it contextualized the work of many artists I already like across disciplines such as Nam June Paik and Sonic Youth! I love how liberating the idea of finding the “means of expression for a particular idea, to test concepts in another field, or simply to extend one’s own radius of effect” is. An artist does not have to be defined by a specific practice.

Another thing that really stood out to me in the reading was the usage of the expression “media transgressor” in:

“Another media transgressor is Tony Conrad, who in the 1960s implemented minimalist concepts both in musical and visual form and at the same time explored the materiality of each respective media from its fringe.”

I guess in the context of this reading, media transgressors are those who are not confined by a specific medium or concept, multidisciplinary practitioners who use whatever means they find suitable to actualize their ideas. Nowadays, when multidisciplinarity seems to be the default (this could be debated, probably), I wonder who a media transgressor would be? Could it be those who actually reject new media? those who go back to traditional mediums and stick to one? I’m not sure!