For the hypertext system, see Intermedia (hypertext) Intermedia was also the name of the third notable hypertext project to emerge from Brown University, after HES (1967) and FRESS (1969). ...

Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s. Thus, the areas such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting and theater could be described as intermedia. With repeated occurrences, these new genres between genres could develop their own names (i.e. visual poetry or performance art.) Fluxus (from to flow) is an art movement noted for the blending of different artistic disciplines, primarily visual art but also music and literature. ... Dick Higgins (born Cambridge, England 1938, died Quebec, Canada 1998) was a poet and early Fluxus artist. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ...

Higgins described the tendency of the most interesting and best in the new art to cross the boundaries of recognized media or even to fuse the boundaries of art with media that had not previously been considered art forms, including computers. With characteristic modesty, he often noted that Samuel Taylor Coleridge had first used the term. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, 1795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and as one of the Lake Poets. ...

In 1968, Hans Breder founded the first university program in the United States to offer an M.F.A. in intermedia. The Intermedia program at the University of Iowa graduated artists such as Ana Mendieta and Charles Ray. In addition, the program developed a substantial visiting artist tradition, bringing artists such as Dick Higgins, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Karen Finley, Robert Wilson and others to work directly with Intermedia students. Ana Mendieta (1948 – 8 September 1985) was a Cuban-born American artist famous for her performance art and video works. ... Dick Higgins (born Cambridge, England 1938, died Quebec, Canada 1998) was a poet and early Fluxus artist. ... Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a New York-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. ... Allan Kaprow helped to develop the Environment and Happening in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. ... Karen Finley (b. ... Robert Wilson (fl. ...