In the twenty-first century, literature is no longer confined to printed books or written text but is mediated by digital technology in multisensory ways. These technological and sensory changes call for a fundamentally intermedial perspective on literature. This article presents intermediality as a crucial framework for unpacking the changing interplay between objects, communicative resources, and literary conventions. Specifically, Lars Elleström’s intermedial framework (2021) enables a more fine-grained exploration of the digital condition of literature. Analysing Johannes Heldén and Håkan Jonson’s digital artwork Evolution (2014) using Elleström’s media modalities allows us to trace how technological changes transform our literary experience, compared to a printed poetry collection or AI-generated poems. Beyond interart relationships and approaches to digital literature, an intermedial perspective highlights the potential of literary language use and offers valuable insights to human-machine creativity.