Yet the artistic avant-garde was politically, aesthetically, philosophically, and ethically more ambitious. All media are extensions of the various human senses and faculties as electronic networks were an extension of our central nervous system.
Multimedia is a powerful paradigm, for it provides a multi-sensory experience.
This become a foundation for the fusion with other paradigms such as Hypertext, Interactivity, Hypermedia, and etc. Their subject is the role of electronic objects in the aesthetic inhabitation of a rapidly dematerializing, ubiquitous and intelligent environment. Now we are in the personal computing or post desktop era.