* <<F6P.0060>> Media
The word, media, as I see it is misapplied when people use it to
refer to entire systems, mechanisms, methods of production and
reproduction. For example, people refer to "paper media", but the
paper (in almost all cases) is NOT the medium; MEDIA, such as ink,
graphite, charcoal, crayon, and so-on, are fixed onto paper, but the
paper is not the medium. The medium is that through which something
is conducted, not that onto which something is held in stasis. Media
is the trasmissive agent, media is CHANGED.
There's often a tripartite system involved in writing, drawing,
printing, and so-on. The three parts are INSTRUMENTATION, MEDIA, and
STORAGE. Instrumentation is that which changes media (paint brush,
palette knife), the medium is that which is changed (paint), and the
storage is that which stabilizes media – or, more specifically,
that which fixes changes made to media (canvas). In some cases, the
system is bipartite as the media and storage are the same (sculpture,
engraving) or, in the case of the wooden pencil, one could argue that
the instrumentation and the media are the same – tho' I wouldn't
make that argument. To my reckoning, the instrument is the wooden
barrel of the pencil, and the graphite is the medium. They're
packaged together, but they can still be separated.
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