Abstract:With the intermedial nature of art as the starting point, and based on classical literatures on intermedia studies in China and the west, the present research aims to build up a genealogy of intermedia art theory with an obvious orientation for Chinese characters. The methodological framework of the research includes close reading, discourse analysis, comparative literature study and digital humanity in the hope of promoting the understanding of intermedial art theory in its core concepts, categories and methodologies. In summary, the present research embodies an approach which evolves from micro to macro, from the empirical to the abstract, and from the ontological to the systemic.