Visual media refers to media that mediate experience through images, screens, and other visual forms. In the provided context, visual media is not treated simply as a device for displaying pictures, but as a medium whose transparency as a mediator has increased through improvements in resolution and frame rate, while at the same time becoming more foregrounded as a screen and experienced as a surface that can be touched. It is therefore described as a site where optical and haptic modes of seeing overlap: the optical mode keeps distance and grasps objects in depth, while the haptic mode compresses distance and moves close to the surface.
The context also presents visual media as something that transforms images into events involving bodily movement and physical engagement, rather than leaving them within a subject-object framework. In this view, the viewer follows the display with their eyes, adjusts focus, and moves around the work, encountering the image as a relation that arises between the body and the world. Visual media thus reshapes seeing as an active, embodied experience rather than a passive act of reception.