As mediated experiences overtake most of our waking hours, the power of a huge mass experience in real life rises in meaning. [from the CT2 blog]

The point Kevin makes is a good one. But… to be honest.. what entranced me was the use of the term mediated experiences. It’s a powerful term. Experience is so defined by the personal feelings and senses, and mediation is so defined by the intervention or removal from personal experience, that the combination just fascinates me.

I did a little poking around on line to get a sense of how mediated experience is used. I got as far as finding it to be an expression used in psychology to refer to a person’s [internal or external] filtering of life’s experiences. But that doesn’t quite convey the punch conveyed to me.

The best I could find was this definition in Spanish:

Mediated experience es una forma de experiencia indirecta. En el caso del arte, es la experiencia donde el artista se ha interpuesto “en medio” entre la experiencia y el que la experimenta.

My very rusty Spanish understands that as:

Mediated experience is a form of indirect experience. In the case of art, it is an experience wherein the artist has interjected the artistic medium itself into the experience and into what is being tested.

I’m not completely certain that I’ve grasped the full concept, but I am really drawn to what I see. A description of the influence that the medium itself (video, computer, television, telephone, news source, whatever) has upon how the information or event is experienced.

YES.