20071211

The extent of the 'extensions of man'

20071211
_sungbae kim
Today is last day. This class was hard for me. It is more difficult than I thought about media.
After sungbae's presetation, Dr yoon explained the over all media aesthetic.
When I just get in this university, I knew I'll learn computer science and design. I was lacking in comprehension of media. In addtion I didn't know media art or media aesthetic. But now, I understood. This class helped me.

# NOTE

1.6.5 Conclusion: the extent of the 'extension of man'
  • The medium is the message - McLuhan
  • Causally
  • Self-extending
  • The question of technology in culture
  • Metaphysical
    :the branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science, traditionally, cosmology and ontology.
  • Realism
  • Nominalism
    : the doctrine holding that abstract concepts, general terms, or universals have no independent existence but exist only as names.
  • Soft determinism

** New aesthetic object: Media aesthetic

1. Aesthetic object: from materal to abstract idea

2. New aesthetic object

  • short history of technology - based media art before 2000s
  • Media art works after 2000s
    : digital media, HCI, Graphics, Vision, Networking, VR, AR, MR
    
   - Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1916-17
   - Andy Warhol

3. Applied media artwork

  • ex. artcom, spot installation






20071206

The many virtues of saint McLuhan

20071206
_sunghun lee

Wow, "Saint" McLuhan!
He is really an eminent scholar for this field of study. Today's lecture is various veiw point (or several people's opinion) of New media. Especially 'NEW MEDIA determingin or determined?'.
Anyway, I realized 'My body is also medium'. ARISTOTLE said than too.



# NOTE

1. The extension thesis

  • The technology is an 'extensions of man' (based in the nature of the human body)
  • Aristotle : the body is the soul's natural tool, The core of the idea is that instruments extend the functions of the labouring body
  • Marx
  • KAPP : nervous system, circulatory system, organ project
  • Bergson : if our organs are natural instruments, our instruments must then be artificial organs


2. The environment thesis

  • The new media not bridges between man and nature : they are nature
  • that above a certain threshold of quantitative change(the number of technologies a society uses) there arisea qualitative change in the structure and functioning of that society
  • that technology, at that point, becomes autonomous, determining its own future and that of the society it shapes


3. The anti-content thesis

  • the medium is the massage
  • Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication

Mapping marshall McLuhan

20071204
_hyowon kwon


We use media to deliver messages. But, Messages keep changing as it pass through the medium.
Dr.yoon said. Example, old paper money printing. They used 'etching' to make a paper money. Etching is constituted four steps. It is draw, draft, carver and print. It have reached thier steps. Finally, the image of the money is different from first image. It changed whether they want it or don't want it. Medium have an effect on massages.

# NOTE

 small group ------------------------> large(popular) group
       i) words
       ii) drawing, figures, pictures

1.6.2 Mapping Marshall McLuhan
  • A narrative of redemption
    : oral culture -> literate culutre
  • Remediation
    ex. story telling (cinderella = 콩쥐팥쥐)
  • Extending the sensorium
    : electric circcuitry

1.6.3 Williams and the social shaping of technology

  • Human agency versus technological determination
  • The plural possibilities and uses of a technology
  • Concepts of technology
  • The concept of a medium
  • The medium is the message
  • Medium as a reification of a social process
  • Medium as material

20071129

New Media: Determining or Determined?

20071129
_dahye yoo
Most people call opposite of popular culture 'Central culture'. Why do they call 'central'?
And they call non-commercial art 'fine-art'. And also, Why do they call 'fine art'?
The reason is 'traditional' and 'the intellectual class'. I think so.
And I think popular culture derived from traditional art or cultrue. so they called 'central'.

# NOTE

1.6 NEW MEDIA: Determining or determined?

Very different theorists of media

  • Marshall McLuhan: 'new media change everything'
  • Raymond Williams: media cna only take effect through already present social processes and structures and will therefore reproduce existing patterns of use and basically sustain existing power relations.

1.6.1 The status of McLuhan and Williams

  • Mainstream of media studies: played techonological element has
  • Both Williams and McLuhan carried out their influential work in the 1960s and 1970s
  • McLuhan: 'the global village', ' the medium is the message'
  • Willam




** The different between McLuhan and Willams


Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory.




Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature reflected his Marxist outlook. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone (Politics and Letters, 1979) and there are many translations of his various works.

20071127

The return of the Frankfurt School critique in the popularisation of new media

20071127
_jiyoon kim


Once upon a time, People thoght art is owned by a special class. also art is for God. It is just my hinking. According to benjamin's writings, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction killed trditional concept of art (example, creativity, genius, uniquely and ,...).
Nowdays, art interact various people each other. I think art re create by the mass of people. and art represent culture.



# NOTE

** The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a 1936 essay by German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, which has been influential in the fields of cultural studies and media theory. It was produced, Benjamin wrote, in the effort to describe a theory of art that would be "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art". In the absence of any traditional, ritualistic value, art in the age of mechanical reproduction would inherently be based on the practice of politics. It is the most frequently cited of Benjamin's essays.

** Walter Benjamin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin



1.5.5 The return of the Frankfurt School ciritique in the popularisation of new media

The 'culture industry', the end of democratic participation and critical distance

  • Strinati sums
  • Alan Meek

Mass society critics feared four things

  • The debasement and displacement of an authentic organic folk culture;
  • the erosion of high cultural traditions, those of art and literature;
  • loss of the ability of these cultural traditions (as the classical 'public sphere') to comment
  • critically on society's values;
  • the idoctrination and manipulation of the 'masses' by either totalitatian politics or market forces

Fascism and stalinism: totalitarianism

the tyranny of market , 'memr' consumers

active looking back to a pre mass culture

  • the recovery of community
  • the remaal of central authority, control
  • online publishing
  • virtual communities

The Brechtian avant-garde and lost opportunities

  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Walter Benjamin : the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

1.5.6 Conclusion

  • amazing novelty of the possiblities that are opening up.

20071122

The discursive construction of new media

20071122
_juhee han
A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols.symbols are physical or immaterial(meta-physical). We call 'book', 'pen' and 'note'. it is simple. but, How do we define immaterial or abstract things?
Like this, Is Discourse a definition an abstract idea that we can't see?
Dr. yoon said.
" Why did they make a institution (mental hospital) ? "
who is normal? or not?
if is is so, The definitions keep changing. also, Discourse?


# NOTE
language (literacy culture) - visual (visual culture) - media

** Discourse (담론, 談論) : communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, discursus, "running to and from"), such as debate or argument


1.5.3 The discursive construction of new media
1. what is discourse?
  • (post-structurealist) Language does not merely describe a pre-given reality
  • operating such as microscopes, telescopes and camera
2. A sense of repetition in how media changes
  • dejavu : 'seen this' or 'been here' before
  • each new medium occurs and proceeds technologically and socioeconomically in the same way
  • the same patterns of response are evident in the members of the culture
  • the same patterns occur in widely different historical and social contexts (ex. film : cinema)
3. determine a kind of media
  • panorama or dirama
  • technological visual culture
  • problem : what is real? (ex. movie 'matrix')
4. discursive construction of new media


1.5.4 Conclusion
  • media archeological approach

20071121

Who was dissatisfied with old media?

20071120
_hyerim park
I realy realy like watching TV. movie, drama, show and whatever..
Of course, I didn't have any dissatisfactions and complaints.
but, I realized when I can use computer. We can watching TV show, drama in network at any time. After that, I hard to wait TV program time- _ -

nowdays, I just download the avi file.



# NOTE

1.5.1 The question

1.5.2 THe technological imaginary

psychoanalytic theories

  • citical thought
  • recast in more sociological

imaginaire

  • the 'real' and the 'symbolic'
  • not refer poetic mental faculty or the activitiy of fantasising

loss of the forms that are displaced

  • photography on painting
  • television then video on cinema

more recently

  • digital imaging on photography
  • graphics software

understanding the conditions

  • seeing what values a culture
  • understanding how the concrete objects and the products of particulat media come to have good or bad cultural connotations in the first place

20071115

A sense of dejavu

20071115
_samyeol jin

Dejavu based on memory.
I thought dejavu is just feeling. It is 'seen it' or 'been here' before or in dream.
or it is maybe six sense.
New media is new way. but it is not totally new thing.

# NOTE

** B-movie
(a+ a b b+ c , below or blues ??)

** Bollywood movie from India
The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.

1.4.4 A sense of dejavu

1.4.5 Conclusion
  • the 'new' in new media which makes history so important
  • what they share with other media
  • between what they cna do and what is ideological in our reception of new media

20071114

The return of the middle ages and other media archaeologies

20071113
_dayeon lee

Edutainment.
I heared that in service marketing class. Professor introduced 'Edutainment is new service product'. and it means education + entertainment.
Enlightenment
It is to make foolish people aware of their right, thinking necessity and something..It is also education.
Nowdays, we thought 'education is study so, it is boring'. but, we can make education is to be joyful. In 18C, Sophist wanted 'enlighten the ignorant' and now, media artists wants 'enlighten the ignorant in joy'.
+
I don't know about history or middle ages because I'm 이과생 hahahah- _ -;;;


# NOTE
The ludic : cinema and games
  • 1900-1920 : aesthetics and pleasures of computer games
  • 1930-1950s : hollywood movei - narrative cinema
  • 21c : pleasures - changes in media production and media consumption / blockbuster - a return of the possibilities present in early cinema
Rhetoric and spatialised memory
  • Bensamin woolley : computer media's metaphorical desktops
  • icons and mnemonic : parallel with the memorising strategies strategies of ancient preliterate, oral cultures
Nickianne Moody
  • Edutainment and the eighteenth centuryenlightenment
  • ancestors of today's home- and place-based software and interactive technology
Discovery of the kind of historical precedents for media
- opportunities of develop new media

** Being digital
a non-fiction computer science book by famed technology author Nicholas Negroponte. It was originally published in January 1995 by Vintage Publishing. Being Digital provides a general history of several digital media technologies, many that Negroponte himself was directly involved in developing. Negroponte analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the technologies (such as his belief that High-definition television wastes broadcasting power), and tries to predict how the technologies will evolve. Negroponte presents a strong belief that humanity is inevitably headed towards a future where everything that can will be digitalized (be it newspapers, entertainment, or sex). This leads Negroponte to a quote repeated often in promoting and explaining the book's material, that the book is made of "unwieldy atoms" that will probably be replaced by a digital copy by the time anyone reads the book. Several e-books exist of Being Digital, making the quote rather prophetic.

** Enlightenment : 계몽사상

20071108

New media and the modernist concept of progress

20071108
_nahyun cho

Today's lecture was hard to me. I completely understood only 'what are the pictorialists'.

Modernist are concerne about 'meaning' more than 'way'.(=>im-mediacy) And avant garde is concerne 'way' and 'meaning'.(=> hyper-mediacy) And I think new media includes all.

+
I thought about 'am I conputer scientist or artist?'. ahaaaa, I'm student.


# NOTE


Deferred future of new media

  • because of technological underdevelopment?
  • be used and nuderstanding according to older, existing practices and ideas

The veiw of modernist aesthetic

  • mediun has its own kind of essence
  • medium has to be genuinely new from the past and old media

experimentalism

imperialist

Pictorialists














left : Asahachi Kono, Untitled (Tree and Hills), late 1920s, gelatin silver print, 7 3/8”x 11 7/8”. Dennis Reed Collection
right : Margrethe Mather, Florence Deshon, 1921, bromide print, 9 1/2”x 7 1/2”. Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles

- Do media proceed by a process of ruptures or decisive breaks with the past?

- Can a medium transcend its historical contexts to deliver an 'entirely new language'?

- Do media have irreducible and unique essences?


** Gene Youngblood

  • The full aesthetic potential of this medium will be realised only when computer artists come to the instrument from art rather than computer science
  • be rescued from the tyranny of perceptual imperialists

** Steve Holzmann

  • existing uses of new media fail to 'exploit those special qualities

** Clement Greenberg

** Raymond Willams

20071106

Teleological accounts of new media

20071106
_semi park


Today, we talked about 'art history'

A fewdays ago, I read the book which of the title is "비키니를 입은 현대미술". The book's author is Nancy Lang. It narrated "origin of art" the beginng of this book. It is also 'cave paintings'.

Almost people think 'maybe, the art started incantation meaning(주술적 의미)'. or,.. some people think 'it is just order'. Whatever, we don't know that unless someone make the time-machine.

# NOTE

From cave paintings to mobile phones
: In Rheingold historical scheme

From photography to telematics: extracting some sense from teleologies
: an eight-stage historical model of the progressive development of technologies of image production and transmission

Seeing the limitis of new media teleologies
: from an abstract system of logic, through the development of calculating machines, to the computer as a 'medium'

Foucault and genealogies of new media
: Foucauldian perspective



** Michel Faucault
http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html

** a beautifrul mind (film)

Directed by Ron Howard

Cast : Russel Crowe (Jhon nash)

The story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as he develops his "original idea" that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Later, Nash develops schizophrenia and endures paranoid and delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

20071101

Measuring 'newness'

20071101
_jungjin lee



I didn't understand this class and also Roger's pictures;; I just felt like last lecture.
Roger's Pictures was a strange to me. First, when I look at the pictures I thought it is landscape pictures. but he told about pictures. It includes many thing. After that, I was confused (Actually, I am a simple-minded person. haha;;)
He represented connections between these pictures using the frame in the picture. and he invites the viewer to make thematic and conceptual connections between photographs and identify coer concerns and themes through relationships between pictures and the places they represent.


# NOTE

Old media in new times?

'Digital television' is not a new medium but is best understood as a change in the form of delivering the contents of the TV medium.

  • New media: digital television
  • Old media: immersive VR, online, interactive, multimedia

The media of 'remediation'

Jay bolter and Richard Grusin

  • The digital technologies 'refashion older media'
  • These older media 'refashion themselves to answer to the challengers of new media'
  • New media are not born in a vanccum and, as media, would have no resources

# Cultural (mis)understanding through photographs
_prof. Roger Palmer

http://www.rogerpalmer.info/

20071030

Change and Continuity

20071030
_taewoo kim

Company need 'revolution'. But, users don't like totally new thing. They don't hate it, they just feel constrained. So, company leave 'continuity' in new thing.
When I was very young, I didn't agree that. Because, I felt "all about computer is not difficult". And I knew "I'm early adaptor". But, now it is not true. 'NEW or CHANGE' is a nuisance. AH! It's a serious matter....T-T


# NOTE

- Polarised over the degree of new media's newness.
- Hinges upon the disciplinary frameworks and discourses
- Revolutionary - a historical perspective

1.3.2 Measuring 'newness'
How new or how large changes
-> We need to establish from what previous states things hae changed
  • Brian Winston :: observes, the concept of a revolution
  • Kevin Robins :: whatever might be 'new' about digital technologies, there is something old in the imaginary signification of "imagerevolution"
Three possibilities
  1. how can we know that new thing is made from
  2. familiar in everyday use or consumption
    lose out curiosity and vigilance, ceasing to ask questions
  3. degrees of nevelty
    new media buzzword interactivity


** im-mediacy / hyper-mediacy

** a scanner darkly
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film by Richard Linklater based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly monitored by intensive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a huge drug addiction epidemic. To give the film its distinct look, the movie was filmed digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope over the original footage.
The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater, and it stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rory Cochrane. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the film's executive producers. A Scanner Darkly was released in July 2006 in limited release, and then widely released later that month. The movie was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2007.
The title is a reference to a verse in the Christian Bible, 1 Corinthians: 13:12: "For now we see through a glass, darkly."



20071027

Cyberspace

20071027
_jihye jeon


My opinion is same the last class. so, I just talk about the 'ID'

ID is indentity in dictionary. anyway, we use this to get in some web-page. So. Does ID means myself? I thought 'ID(or avatar) is just string or imagefile'. But, I take care of it unconsciously. We regard 'avatar represent me' in online community.

This is my minime(미니미). I gave her ID. She is me in cyworld. but she live in only miniroom T^T. I change her clothes by periods.






# NOTE

VR
  • sensory - experience (-> Immersive VR)
  • Comectivity - world, network (-> Online networks)

1.2.7 Cyberspace

- Imersive VR : a site-specific enclosure in technology
- VR of online networks : the invisivle space of communication

A future scenario
  • embodiment : of having and being conscious of having bodies
  • cyberspace : future fusion in the same frame

  • virtual actors or synthespians
  • The computing power and the telecommunications bandwidth

1.2.8 Conclusion

New media is in progress now


** William gibson's blog

 http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp

20071023

Virtuality


20071023
_kyuho choi

I have heard about virtuality(virtual reality, VR) in game programming or movie. I thought VR is just 'equipment' for wearing like the movie 'Minority Report'. On the contrary, 'virtual reality' is a general concept and include screen based multimedia, the space(created by or within communications networks) and something.. and also the 'equipment' like the movie.
VR space in online combine the anonymity. after that, It makes new world. We can live another man in this space, How amusing! (but, we need real cash in VR sapce -_-)

Dr. Yoon talked 'Wendy ewald' when he explained about frame. I found her works. and I thought 'Maybe..Korean girls are qualified to find the frame and focus. because sel-ca or phone-ca (self camera)'. Actually, My self photo is greater than another picture. (HAHA ;;;;;)


# NOTE

    simulation
      ↓
  Reality ↔ virtual reality / augmented reality / mixed reality

1.2.5 Virtuality ( = Virtual Reality = VR)
  • Simulation :: Reality ↔ virtual reality / augmented reality / mixed reality
  • "Virtuality" refers to the seeming of anything, as opposed to its reality.

1.2.6 Which virtual reality?

  • 'Place' and 'Spaces' created by or within communications networks.
  • first, it is used to describe the cxperience of immersion in an environment constructed with computer graphics and digital video with which the 'user' has some degree of interaction.
  • A second meaning is the space where participants in online communication feel themselves to be.
  • Problens of VR's future - My 11 reaseons.


** Wendy ewald
What is the world really like through a child's eyes? Can a camera teach a child the value of self-expression? What is the role of education in art? Acclaimed photographer Wendy Ewald takes your questions on the subject.


** Second life

20071014

Dispersal

20071011
_jooyub shin



Dispersal is '분산' in korean.
and Distribution is '분포'

What's different ?
Two words is totally different.
I think dispersal is how to let know in media. There live too many people in this world. We think 'What can deliver effectively?'. So, we use the broadcasting, networking and somting.



# NOTE

Consumption
  • Mass media and New media : Differentiated audience is no longer a mass audience
  • The multiplicity(various view, usage) of messages and source
  • Difference between centralised and dispersed media distribution systems : Radio broad cast networks, Computer networks (Winamp, ICQ)

Production

  • Developments of production technologies : The traditional boundaries and definitions between different media processes are breaking down
  • Content can be reworked for dozen of different outlets
  • Available in domestic software packages : Photographic production through manipulation and distrivution through compression (ex. photoshop, illustrator)

Consumption meets production

  • Prosumer(Producer + consumer) marketing
  • Neither the professional nor the amateur

20071009

Hypertext

20071009
_jinju lee

What is 'Hyper' ?
When I write this text, There are some buttons in screen. One of them is Hyper-link button. I just understood this word. 'Hyper' includes some things related and means more than itself.
And I visited web site "art museum"
This web site is very simple and explains about "multimedia : from wagner to VR". Main page had links about project centering around 'the book'.


# NOTE

History
  • 'Hyper' is derived from the Greek 'above, beyond, or outside'
  • The term into academic literary and representational theory.
  • the language of the computer development industry.

def.

  • Each one carries an number of pathways to other units
  • Analogue vs Digitaly

- Hypertext and a model of the mind

- Hypertext as non-sequential writing

- Hypermediacy

- Critical questions in hypertext

- Hypertext scholarship

- Hypertext as the practice of literary theory

  • Some major points of contemporary literary and semiological theory
  • The basis for cultural production
  • Principle of hypertextuality is key to understanding new media

**Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement influenced later styles, movements, and groups including Surrealism, Pop Art, and Fluxus.

**Multimedia : from wagner to VR

http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/index.html

** S/Z, published in 1970, is Roland Barthes's structuralist analysis of Sarrasine, the short story by Honoré de Balzac. Barthes methodically moves through the text of the story, denoting where and how different codes of meaning function. Barthes's study has had a major impact on literary criticism, and is historically located at the crossroads of structuralism and post-structuralism. Barthes's analysis is influenced by the structuralist linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure; both Barthes and de Saussure aim to explore and demystify the link between a sign and its meaning. Barthes seeks to establish the overall system out of which all individual narratives are created, using specific "codes" that thematically, semiotically, and otherwise make a literary text "work". By pointing out how these codes function subconsciously in the mind of the reader, Barthes flags the way in which the reader is an active producer of the text, rather than a passive consumer.

20071004

Interactivity

20071004
_kihoon Kim

When I wan freshman, I heard the word 'interactive', I didn't know what this mean. but, after that I always heard the words.

The world is society. so, we have to communicate someone. As the technology advanced, It comes into being many media. It makes possible that we can interactive. but, It can't communicate clear. so, It has many problems.

I hard to communicate even if I can speak almost language. I think these problems is not only media.


# NOTE

Interactivity

  • feedback (ex. the machine, touch screen : beep) - early interactive
  • ex. website : amazon, google (early gmail, like a pyramid)

Ideological level (value from market)

  • ex. shopping

Instrumental level

  • ex. web TV provide email, online shopping, home banking

Hypertextual navigation

  • user can constract for him or her self an individualised text
Problems

  • Interpretation, miss understood.
  • Definition (signifier & signified : not fixed, keep changing)
  • Producers

20071002

Digitality

20071002
_ sungwon jung


Digital reminds me 'one and zero'.
I think digital is just number. Digitalizing can make numbers from real world. Number is easy to claculate, change and modify....so, I thnik Digital is good !



# NOTE
- What does digital mean
- Analog & Digital
Digital
  • physical properties of the input data
  • → binary numeric form
Digital technology
  • Embrace all areas involved art
  • Can modify

Visual literacy

  • Embrace the fluid, ever-changing universe that exists inside the computer




Distinguishing between kinds of new media

20071002
_ soojung sin

Multi media develop cleary and closely more and more. On the contray, Imagination dwindle away into almost nothing. is it good or bad ? I don't know. even so, fortunately, Old one don't disappear. New one include old.

# NOTE

New Media
  • new textual experiences : genre, textual, hypertexts
  • new ways of representing the world
  • new relationships between subjects (users and consumers) and media technoloies
  • new experiences of the relationship to technological media
  • new patterns of organization and production

Include

  • computer-mediated communications : email, MUDs, MOOs
  • new ways of distributing and consuming
  • virtual reality
  • a whole range of transformations and dislocations of established media

Textuality

  • text : real thing, words, sentance...
  • textuality : connotation, property, message...

- Duplicate vs Real

- Representation

- we can see that we knew.

- subject (subjectivity)

20071001

Non-technical and inclusive

20071001
_ eui-kwon song


I thought, I understand media. but, I don't know media at present......again...- _ -

Which one is media ?
I don't know if media is tools or forms it self.
When the picture for example, Is medium egg-white or painting itself?

otherwise..
  • pure media ---> egg-white
  • inter media ---> painting itself
  • new media ---> both egg-white and painting.
is it right??

hmm......It is very difficult. and I am confused





# NOTE

- Not limited to one norrow concept of field of techology
- Range of phenomena
- Generl, Abstract → inclusive
- Digital + Media

Image (Digital / Digitalize)
  • visining image <---dont care..
  • sensory image <---focus

Medium <---keep change

  • pure medium : base on visionary, all medium, include old, old is good.
  • inter medium
  • new media ( our thought!!) : similar inter media. but, include pure media





20070924

the ideological connotations of the new

20070920
_ Yeaseul Song
I explained the ideological connotations of the new.
After that,We saw the video.It is davinci project about education of art.In France,
They really see, feel, touch and make something. And sometimes they visit museum or art gallery.Their education of art is not only theory but also experience. And we saw someproject groups and enterprises about media art.They made up artists and technical experts.
I think art and science is both important. And they think so.



#NOTE
New Media
  • the media technologies in the process of becoming the dominating economic and political force.
  • Culture layer - Computer layer

New

  • New = Betters
  • A cluster of glamorous and exciting meaning
  • The cutting edge

A range of developments ‘NEW’

  • Part of a powerful ideological movement
  • A narrative about progress in western society
  • New Media & ICTs : Celebration & Promotion ↔ Globalizing neo-liberal forms

From a modernist belief : Claims + Hopes

  • Increased productivity, educational opportunity
  • Open up new creative, communicative horizons

what are new media?

20070918
_Bundo Song
"Waht are New Media?"
It is continual questions from last class.
What is art?
What are NewMedia?
.
.
.
These are simple questions.
But Answer is not simple.
Media.
first, Let Think about the media.
Once upon a time. When they draw an oil painting on canvas, They using the white of an egg for painting. Because The cotton doesn't stick to dyes. For this reason, they called white of an egg the medium.
This is the origin of Media.
Medium(Media) is a way or means of expressing your ideas or of communicating with people.



# NOTE
1.1 What are New Media?
  • The answers could be various
  • A collective singular noun Used in Many fields
  • Seems like bright future Breaks history .
1.1.1 The Media as an institution
  • 'Communication media' Institutions and organizations
  • The cultural had material product of the institutions
  • Pay attention to more than the point of media production
  • Investigate the wider processes
  • Already settled down and not New techonological possibilities and established media forms
1.1.2 The Intensity of change
  • Big change in the media from the late 1980s on
  • Social and cultural changes from the 1960s
  • A shift from modernity to post-modernity
  • Intensifying processes of globalization
  • A replacement of an industrial age by a post-industral information age
  • A decentring of established and centralised geo-political orders
  • A new techonoculture
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I surprised his English ability.
Next time is my turn T-T

20070917

'Theoretical Background : Traditional Thoughts on Art' _ 20070911

I was taught 'history of art' by this lecture.
but, when i wrote down about the lecture,
I didnt come up with anything.

Dr.yoon said
"what is art?"

and He talked about 'Traditional Thoughts on Art'.
it was almost artists and philosophers.

Plato, Aristoteles, Hume, Kant, Hegel...

"they are philosophers."
That is all about them for me.
I didnt remain in ethics's memories;;

This lecture is simple and easy.
But I felt difficult.
I'll have to think about the art (and artists too).




Ah,

I just came up with some words.
(I dont know why i came up these words.)


# NOTE


** Unique
1. Something that is unique is the only one of its kind.
2. You can use unique to describe things that you admire because they are very unusual and special.
3. people who consider themselves uniquely qualified to be president of the United States.


** External ↔ Internal
- External is used to indicate that something is on the outside of a surface or body, or that it exists, happens, or comes from outside.
- Internal is used to describe things that exist or happen inside a particular person, object, or place.

**Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry (including theater), logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Along with Socrates and Plato, he was among the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers, as they transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as it is known today. Some researchers credit Plato and Aristotle with founding two of the most important schools of ancient philosophy, while others consider Aristotelianism to be a development and concretization of Plato's insights.

**Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "wide, broad-browed"[1]) (428/427 BC[a] – 348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks –succeeding Socrates and preceding Aristotle– who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture.[2] Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates, and to have been as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious.[3] Interestingly, although there is little question that Plato lectured at the Academy that he founded, the pedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. Aristotle's mention of Plato, for example, suggests a number of lectures that took place on various philosophical subjects (such as The Good), but there is no suggestion that Plato lectured from or in accordance with his own dialogues, as a modern-day instructor of philosphy might with a particular textbook [citation needed]. In any event, the dialogues have since Plato's time been used to teach a range of subjects, mostly including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote.

20070911

media aesthetics










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I don't have any confidence in my English. I aready knew that.
Actually, Korean too. Hahaha ;;

Umm, I think that it is hard to talk to someone.

so, I want to express my opinion for another way, not for language.

anyway, even so,..