The next great movement

In my History of Media class last Thursday, we got into a discussion about the great artistic, philosophic, and literary, movements of the 20th century--you know, post-impressionism, surrealism, dada, existentialism, deconstructionism...etc. When it came to the great movement of today, no one could think of one. The professor argued that there is no new school of thought uniting any artists of any kind in this day and age. After reading the second New Media Reader article, I have decided that "computer-based artistic activities"-- New Media, is the new school.
The idea that "new media is the encoding of modernist avant-garde" supports my theory.

I consider Borges, with his dreamscapes and irrational concepts, to be the father of the New Media Movement. Though Bush may have developed the precursor to the technology which enables new media to exist, it is Borges' ideology that led to the "artistic uses" for this technology--the very definition of new media.

After seeing Microcosmos and Winged Migration, and playing with all the toys on Ken Perlin's website, I realized how completely permeated with new media today's society is. New media has not only changed the daily life of nearly everyone on the planet, but it has allowed us to experience our own world in new ways (as in the films), and to create worlds of our own (such as the technology developed by Ken Perlin). Both of these are the aim of every cultural movement, and new media is that and then some.