intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collections at UMBC

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Lisa Moren,intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collections at UMBC, 2003

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Richard Carter Higgins (1938 - 1998) coined the term “intermedia” to describe an emerging international and interdisciplinary direction in art in his landmark essay of the same name published in the first issue of his Something Else News letter: “I would like to suggest that the use of intermedia is more or less universal throughout the fine arts, since continuity rather than categorization is the hallmark of our new mentality