How far can you trace back multimedia (lecture 1)

I personally had never thought about how far back multimedia could be traced back but after listening to a brief history I realised that in some way multimedia has always been around. I never considered that multimedia could have started as early as cave paintings (15,000 BC), but the more I think about it the more connections I can make between what happened in the past and how it could have influenced the multimedia that we have come to know and love to this day.

In my opinion everyone is creative but in different ways, some people won’t see what they are doing as creative, but everything tends to stem from something else, something they have seen or heard, which has carried on through time. Some people will say that you can’t trace multimedia as far back as cave paintings but I think you can.

If you look at modern day multimedia there are quite a few similarities between old and new, for example the cave painting were created for an unknown reason on stones and objects were people in that age would see them, which is like graffiti in the modern world people graffiti, buildings, walls where ever they feel there art will be seen and we don’t know the reasoning behind it, we are left to come to our own conclusion, some see it as an art form some see it as vandalising. It all balances on opinions and beliefs of that person.

Some cave paintings were found in caves with good acoustics which gets you thinking did they consider this when choosing a place to paint or has it always been that audio and visual run so perfectly with each other that half the time we won’t notice it, which is what makes today’s multimedia so interesting and complex.

It is amazing to think that artists, scientists, musicians, engineers, poets and cultural renegades all played a part throughout time to mould multimedia into what it has become today.