“多媒态”一词语出中央美术学院副院长范迪安先生在就2004年第五届上海双年展“影像生存”接受记者访问时所言:“在这个展览中,当代艺术出现了一个新的共同的特征,其中一个最重要的,是它现在已经不仅仅是多媒体,它是一种‘多媒态’——即多种媒介形成的一种新的(艺术)形态。我觉得这个是当代艺术的一个非常重要的、综合的、交叉的、相互渗透的、相互激励的特征。”从早期的多媒体艺术、新媒体艺术、虚拟艺术、数码媒体艺术到今 In his interview with reporters at the fifth Shanghai Biennale 2004, “Image Survival”, Mr. Fan Di’an, vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, said: “In this exhibition, One of the most important features of art emerged in a new common denominator: it is now more than just multimedia; it is a ’multi-media’ - a new (art) form of multi-media I think this is a very important, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, interpenetrating and mutually motivating feature of contemporary art. ”From the early days of multimedia art, new media art, virtual art and digital media art to today