Art Notes: The More The Media
By Grace Glueck

"It's really going to change a lot of the students' heads, experiencing all those people," hip John Brockman said happily the other day. Brockman, a young impresario sometimes known as Intermedia's intermediary was referring to "Intermedia '68," a two-month, touring festival he is producing with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Council on the Arts.

"These people traffic in experience, not objects or products," says Brockman, who sometimes sounds like the book he is writing on the subject (with USCO's Gerd Stern). "Their performances result from an awareness of the reality inherent in the new technologies.Their function is to make visible the perceptions of science. They use the environrnent as an art form, and have abandoned the notion of art as metaphor to deal with man in time and space."