To me, media art is students wiring a camcorder to a potter's wheel, taking it to a football field with 200 yards of extension cord and stepping on the pedal. Media art is students animating students as they surf down halls of their schools.
Media art is students interviewing each other about racism, violence, love and dreams.
Media art is stacking five televisions atop each other and creating tapes that play across the screens simultaneously, interacting with each other. Media art is dissecting a blue jeans commercial to see what it tells us about how boys and girls are supposed to act. Media art is working with a dance troupe, editing visual movement to create new rhythms. The flash of a light, the beat of a cut, the sound of whisper, the kick of an honest answer. All those ingredients go into the spicy gumbo that media arts can be.