This term was coined by
Dick Higgins
to define new genres of art that combined the aspects of two heretofore separate types of art. (Only later did Higgins become aware of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's earlier uses of the epithet.) Intermedia is different from multimedia,
which implies something much less dramatic—the inclusion of various art media, such as different kinds of material, within one work. One frequently cited example of
intermedia
is VISUAL POETRY, which results...
