Intermedial Agencies

The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics

Asun López-Varela Azcárate, Luis Martínez-Falero

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Routledge
27 October 2025

The Arts: General & Reference; linguistics; Literary studies: general; Semiotics & semiology; Media studies

Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication

Intermedial Agencies: The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics explores how the arts continuously redefine and facilitate cross-media transformation through intermedial interactions. Drawing primarily on semiotics and neomaterialist approaches, López-Varela Azcárate and Martínez-Falero examine the symbiotic relationship between artistic innovation, material change, and evolving technologies, particularly digital media and AI. Through diverse case studies spanning historical and geographical contexts, the volume interrogates not only material and medial boundaries but also the shifting sociocultural landscape of intermedial dynamics. In response to complex technological and ecological challenges, the research situates human creativity within co-creative processes that engage the non-conscious co-agencies of non-humans and more-than-human.

Unlike existing literature, this volume adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach, bridging semiotics, art history, comparative literature, media studies, and cultural theory. It offers theoretical insights alongside a wide range of contemporary artistic practices, many of which address habitat destruction, environmental degradation, biotechnology, and other urgent concerns. Essential for scholars, students, and engaged readers, the book highlights a sociocultural shift towards a symbiotic, planetary, and sustainable paradigm—one that rethinks the responsible interrelations between knowledge systems, material intermedial practices, and human creativity within digital and AI-driven co-creation.

By: Asun López-Varela Azcárate, Luis Martínez-Falero
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781032984148
ISBN 10: 1032984147
Series: Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 27 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Asunción López-Varela Azcárate is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, with a specialisation in intermedial semiotics. Luis Martínez-Falero is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Spanish Studies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.