Journal Entry Question #3, Gr. 11 & 12 Media Arts & Comm Tech

In unit 2, we've begun to explore the concept of "hybridity". The meaning of "hybridity" has changed a lot within the last decade. It is a term which originated from the field of biology referring to the breeding of two similar species. In media arts, hybridity or hybridization is the degree to which a technique or process is a product of two or more techniques or processes. Hybridity is a predominate theme in our "postmodern era" (remember seminar #1?) in which we experience an intermingling of influences, styles, and techniques in all the media we create and consume. For example, OutKast is not just a hip hop group, since it is a vibrant mix of R&B, rock, spoken word, electronica, funk, jazz, blues, poetry, and etc. Such hybrid mashups are not only seen in the music world, but in all dimensions of our contemporary lives. Just look in your backpacks. How many of you have cell phone-MP3-blender-foot massager-digital cameras? ;) For this journal entry, discuss how you experience hybridity in your daily lives.

I expereince hybridity every day in my life. I shall start from the moment i wake up. When i wake up, if i do that day, i mix milk and coffee and sugar in a cup, creating a hybrid by mixing different things together to create one thing, that tastes amazing and wakes me up. I get into a car to be driven to school. The car itself is also a hybrid because of the fact that it uses both electricity and gasoline to run. When i get to school i create a hybrid with my school uniform, usually mixing a jacket with my regular uniform to create an "out of uniform student" who always ends up being told to change. At lunch i usualy mix my food, having lets say frys with a burger. Being the weirdo i am, i put my fries in my burger and eat it like that. By the end of the day, i end up in the same car going home, having yet another coffee. and that concludes my day.