> The art of today is actually a vast envelop of media that has
> no single medium or style or format or even a localizable objective
> armature of any sort.
Only partially. What's out there right now is this dialectic of neo-nationalism vs. multinationalism -- the latter is this weird, chaotic, messy space, where Eurocapital, Asiacapital and Wall Street are all mudwrestling for hegemony, whereas the former is reconstituting new national markets under the global umbrella of neoliberalism. Multinational consumerism is the flip side of neolib/religious fundamentalism; the IMF is the global Taliban, only without the latter's local charm.
On the other hand, works of multinational art of the highest quality -- Kieslowski, Anno, Shigeru Miyamoto -- are amazingly precise, and have tremendous formal symmetry and specificity. You can't really imagine a single sequence of "The Decalogue" as being filmed any other way than it is: the greatness of a work of art, even the video ones, still lives in its indissoluble, fragile concreity, as Adorno would say.
-- Dennis