After trying to fix the place “Liquidity Issues” occupies in new media, a few things become clear. As already established, making the decree that “Liquidity” couldn’t be without new media is not without inviting contention, and fairly so. A large part of this comes in the question which weighs heavily on the piece: is this project one of remediation or is it hewed out completely in new media?

This phrasing suggests that there is something subordinate about a remediated project versus an originally conceived new media piece, and I think this subordination can be. While the bringing together of media into a new media project can be amazing, it is difficult to hide the stitch lines by which I mean the visible/invisible demarcations of text versus graphics versus interface. It’s almost like watching a colorized black and white movie – yes, with the glory of Technicolor you can finally see what color jacket the hero was wearing… but that was never part of the vision of the original cinematographer. When envisioning a project wholly created out of nothing in the new media realm has the potential of embracing the possibilities of the infinite medium. The key word in the above statement is “potential,” and I have made some rather large overarching generalizations, but they are not made without intending to highlight the often stark differences between a wholly new media project and one remediated for new media.
So, is “Liquidity” a remediation? A frustrating yet frequent refrain in this analysis is that we do not know. We have some clues. As already alluded to in the previous section, the initial form can be imagined in print media, but the motion and overall experience are indeed new media specific. By defining its place in new media by stating how it positions itself against a print-media version of itself suggests remediation. Many clues come on the front page the reader is presented with. First, it is a collaboration between (taken from the bios) a poet and a web designer who live on opposite ends of the country. I don’t mean to suggest that long distance collaborations can’t happen – they can be fabulous. But it is difficult to conceive of two minds thousands of miles apart working cohesively together on the same project at the same time. The second clue comes in that you can view the poem text by itself. This experience is horrible and stands in stark contrast against the lively presentation of the same poetry in the project. But it’s there, nonetheless, inviting the reader to wonder whether this poem existed outside of this project. Should it be something I am familiar with? Does my reading of the text of the poem change my reading of the project? The presentation of the text of the poem is at once convenient and a conundrum.
So, is it a remediation? A lot of clues suggest it, but we cannot definitively say yes or no – which is frustrating. What we can do is further investigate the media functions of the project