Response to Crystal

Crystal's first question today is about the cultural impact of immediacy versus hypermediacy. I have to agree that the culture in which the context takes place is the most important part of how that is interpreted. Say that two separate cultures observe the same piece of art, created in the first culture (ie the Africans versus Westerners debate). Only by having a solid grasp of its context can you find a method to evaluate the art within its form of medium. The other culture, however, completely unaware of that art piece's context and meaning, is separated into the immediacy field, because there is no way for them to relate it back; it transcends its medium completely.