What is "intermedia"

Intermedium \In`ter*me"di*um\, n.; pl. Intermediums, L. Intermedia. [NL., neut. of L. intermedius intermediate.]

1. Intermediate space. [R.]

2. An intervening agent or instrument.
   --Cowper.

3. (Anat.) The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals.

n. interdisciplinary activities between medium, such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting and theatre

Intermedia was a term used in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe various inter-disciplinary art activities that occurred between genres in the 1960s.

Intermedia was the third notable hypertext project to emerge from Brown University, after HES (1967) and FRESS (1969). Intermedia was started in 1985 by Norman Meyrowitz, who had been associated with earlier hypertext research at Brown. The Intermedia project coincided with the establishment of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS).

Intermedia ran on A/UX version 1.1. Intermedia was programmed using an object-oriented toolkit and standard DBMS functions. Intermedia supported bi-directional, dual-anchor links for both text and graphics. Small icons are used as anchor markers. Intermedia properties include author, creation date, title, and keywords. Link information is stored by the system apart from the source text. More than one such set of data can be kept, which allows each user to have their own "web" of information. Intermedia has complete multi-user support, with three levels of access rights: read, write, and annotate, which is similar to Unix permissions.

As promising as Intermedia was, it used a lot of resources for its time (it required 4 MB of RAM and 80 MB of hard drive space in 1989). It was also highly tied to A/UX, a less popular Unix-like operating system that ran on Apple Macintosh computers; thus, it wasn't very portable. In 1991, changes in A/UX and lack of funding ended the Intermedia project.

Intermedia is a film production company, wholly owned by IM Internationalmedia AG.

The company mostly acts as a co-producer, funding films through the IMF (Internationale Medien und Film, German for "International Media and Film") funds.

Intermedia, "across multiple channels" in Latin, may refer to:

• Intermedia, a concept in the arts
• Intermedia (hypertext), a hypertext system at Brown University
• InterMedia Partners, a private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in the media sector
• Intermedia (production company), a film studio
• InterMedia Entertainment Company, a production company founded by Fred Silverman in 1982, later renamed The Fred Silverman Company
• European research Network of Excellence project INTERMEDIA-NoE (2006-10 – 2010-09)

and also:

• División Intermedia, the second tier football league in Paraguay
• Kansai Intermedia, a Japanese company broadcasting the FM radio FM Cocolo
• La intermedia, a rural municipality and village in Jujuy Province in Argentina
• Oracle interMedia, a feature providing multimedia utilities in an Oracle database environment
• Precis Intermedia Gaming, a publishing company distributing PDF-based and traditional printed role-playing games