Hybridity involves itself in the pattern of embrace, rejection, and further a more nuanced understanding of the two things combined in association. They are reflected in art either by celebrating, questioning or recongnizing it as something that is ultimately and always hybrid. “A hybrid means something of mixed origin or composition that adds variety or complexity to a system”, by blurring boundaries, breaking rules, and creating, hybrids artists very much occupy themselves with making new meaning in art. This new freedom allows more opportunities for artists to express their unique ideas and concepts. Nowadays, our very own sense of self is created by the mixture of many identities, just like how media art is made and composed of, we are both collectors and creators of newness that come into this world, by which we see that hybridity is “destablizing but also regenerative” (art & today). By mixing different art mediums together, one can create diametrically new meaning that could be both personal and ecological. For example movies these days require skills for film editing and smooth story telling/editing, lighting effects, voice readjuctment, soundtracks, and props. A movie production is the experience combining all kinds of media forms, in creation of something that is utterly new and never been seen before (or at least that was the intention). In this case, movies are an exanple of hybrid media form. “How does a newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is?” (Salman Rushdie). Through this question we see and explore hybridity from a number of perspectives, observing it in others, embracing it ourselves.
The ever expanding notion of hybridity and its influence in visual art lets us infiltrate various cultures, mimicking their lifestyle and have the world enter into a hybrid masquerade that continue to renegotiate borders to ensure the very idea of stability and purity which is nothing more than a conforting myth, that ultimately prevents us from moving beyond the confines of artistic perception.
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Art and today: the rise of the Hybrid self
“A hybrid means something of mixed origin or composition that adds variety or complexity to a system”
Blurring boundaries, breaking rules, newness, fusions…thats also the essence of paint mixing! Hybridity is akin to combining yellow and blue to make green, then green with white to make a pastel hue, or blue with red to make purple. This is how newness is born.
Yet you gotta be careful: mixing too many colors will leave you with brown. It seems the key to hybridization is similar to basic paint-mixing, where it’s essential to keep your synthesized mediums simple, basic, and primary – otherwise your palette becomes muddled and senseless.
Perhaps complementary hybrids can exist too, like the complimentary colors yellow and purple. This is achieved by taking entities A, B, and C, hybridizing A and B to make AB, and then putting it beside the primary entity C to emphasize, contrast, and enhance.
What about Survivability?
Recreate the exact same color over and over again, or the same hybrid twice is like recreating the same baby twice. When there are so many potential combinations, I would argue that identicals are counterintuitive in nature and in art. Lucien Freud never puts his paintbrush on the canvas twice in a row before varying the color first on his pallette. That’s what gives his work depth, intricacy, quality, most importantly: realism. He never uses the exact same color twice.
Excellent points, I love the analogy to painting. I have the same question for you as I did for Jessica though. Who are you responding to? How are you engaging in the conversation?
Jessica,
It is unclear to me whose comment you are responding to, since you added it as a separate post and not a comment. Also, you don’t really refer to anything others have written. How are you engaging in the conversation?