2007년 12월 15일 토요일

Summary) closing discussion

#Conclusion: the extent of the 'extensions of man'

1.aesthetic object from material to abtract idea
-ideological shift
-fountain-Marcel Duchamp
-discursive field

2. new aesthetic object
-interactive art
-vidioart
-1900s- on line newsgroups and emails
-2000s- digital media dased , interactive-HCI, graphic, vision, networking,
-immateriality-VR,AR,MR, out of orginality
-suboversive paradigm of fire art: artwork without artist

3.appleid media artwork
art+com

##My opinion

Today lesson is last lesson. So far, I learned about new media or history(past thinking) or culture and so on. My conclution is changed media by people of time. We find excellent idea about various media in these among the changes.

2007년 12월 8일 토요일

Summary) new media: determining or determined? 2

#Mapping marshall McLuhan

-A narrative of redemption: oral culture -> literate culutre
-Remediation (ex : story telling(신데렐라 -> 전세계에 있는 스토리)
-Extending the sensorium : electric circcuitry

Williams and the social shaping of technology

-The concept of a medium
-The medium is the message
-Medium as a reification of a social process
-Medium as material

#The many virtues of saint McLuhan

The extension thesis
-The technology is an 'extensions of man'
-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
-Bergson : if our organs are natural instruments, our instruments must then be artificial organs

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

The anti-content thesis
-The medium is the massage (ex : newspaper -> change contents of mediun characteristic)
-Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication

##My opinion

Many multiplicity reason -> Art, Movie, Novel, Music video, and so on are change (contents, story and so on)

For example, we frequently decide what is commerciogenic or artistry in culture.

Defend the pride? first things money?

I don't know what is in the right.
this problem -> an answerable question -> We are serious thinking about this problem.

2007년 11월 29일 목요일

Summary) new media: determining or determined? 1

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

Strnati :
- Elitism : view mass as passive nondiscreminating consumers

Alan Meek :
- dominant kind of relationship

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

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

Conclusion

-amazing novelty of the possiblities that are opening up

#New Media: Determining or Determined?

Very different theorists of media
-Marshall McLuhan : "new media change everything"
-Raymond Williams: media can only take effect through already present social processes and structures and will therefore reproduce existing patterns of use and basically sustain existing power relations

##My opinion

18c Greek : small group(the nobility) -> high class art (not popular culture)

the present -> Art : The majority is popular culture.

What great art? -> The art won recognition from the public. Great art is not a small minority of rich person.

2007년 11월 24일 토요일

Summary) who was dissatisfied with old media?

#Who was dissatisfied with old media?

phychoanalytic theories
- critical thought
- recast in more sociological

imaginaire
- the 'real' and the 'symbolic'

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
- seesing what values a culture

##My opinion

Someone peoples have complain about TV. Because TV standardize in news and many contents. I have complain about TV, too. So I use New media. For example I use download in p2p site and see in GomTV and so on. They convenience about without regard to time and choose kinds of contents and so on.
But they have demerit. selection in many kinds of contents -> grow insensible

#The discursive construction of new media

Discourse (담론) : is communication that goes back and forth (from the Latin, discursus, "running to and from"), such as debate or argument. The term is used in semantics and discourse analysis. In semantics, discourses are linguistic units composed of several sentences — in other words, conversations, arguments or speeches. (reference wikipedia)


## My opinion

Many definition of vocabulary was changed through discourse. And many definition of vocabulary have been created throuth discourse. (ex: 인터넷 용어들, 유행어들 등등)
Discourse have many abilitys. (ex: 단어의 의미변화기능, 새로운 단어생성, 느낌(ex: 어떤 사람의 이미지) 등등)

2007년 11월 17일 토요일

Summary) what kind of history? 2

#The return of the middle ages and other media archaeologies

Kevin Robins - digital image(1997)

The ludic(=ludology(놀이)) : cinema and game

- 1900~1920 : aesthetics and pleasures of computer games
- 1930~1950 : hollywood movie - narrative cinema
- 21c :
pleasures - changes in media production and media consumption
blockbuster - a return of the possibilities present in early cinema

Rhetoric(웅변술) and spatialised memory
- Bensamin woolley : computer media's metaphorical desktops
- icons and mnemonic : parallel with the memorising strategies of ancient preliterate, oral cultures

Nickianne Moody
- Edutainment and the eighteenth century enlightenment

Discovery of the kind of historical precedents for media
- opportunities of develop new media

##My opinion

The past : sophist --enlightment(생각할 수 있는 능력을 주다)--> citizen
The present : all kinds of new media --enlightment --> citizen (something like the past)

#A sense of dejavu

B-movie

Bollywood movie
- from india

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

##My opinion

Dejavu : the past of memory in my brain -> arrive at a past memory
New media : the history of the past --continue(the same dejavu phenomenon)--> the present of new media

2007년 11월 11일 일요일

Summary) what kind of history? 1

#Teleological(목적론) accounts of new media

From cave painting to mobile phones
-In Rheingold's historical scheme

From photography to telematics
-extracting some sense from teleologies, Peter Weibel's: 8 stage historical model of the technologic developments of image production and transmission

Seeing the limits of new media telelogies
-Paul Mayer: from abstract system of logic

Foucault and genealogies(계보학) of new media
-Mark Poster's concept, Jay Bolter & Richard Grusin's concept: foucauldian perspective

#New media and the modernist concept of progress

Deferred future of new media
-because of technological underdevelopment?
-be used and understanding according to older, existing practices and ideas

The view of modernist aesthetic
-medium has to be genuinely new from the past and old media
(ex: Painter-> important painting materials)

Modernist(ex: 피카소)--difference--아방가르드(ex: 뒤샹)
(Modernist-> respect tradition)

Gene Youngblood
-"the tyranny of perceptual imperialists(경험주의)"
(perceptual->physical contact(ex: 첫만남은 외모가 중요하다.))
-most value->real experience)

Steve Holzmann
- existing uses of new media fail to exploit those special qualities

Modernist viewpoints
-전통중시(ex: Greenberg -> important materials, Macluhan)

Pictorialist
-Photograhper-> photo like art(technologie downgrade)

Raymond Willams "Media technology does not have any essence

##My Opinion

Art is start reason -> the instrument of discovery (Reference: movie "A space odyssey")

Art is continue develop + Instrument is continue develop = Art is the rapid growth

Some peoples think -> good technology -> not art
But my think -> Some all medium is the whole art.

2007년 11월 4일 일요일

Summary) change and continuity

#polalized over the degree of new media's newness

-revolutionary -> not relation historical (totally newness)
-business as usual -> relation historical (telephone --continuity--> cell phone)

Brain Winston -> observes the concept of a 'revolution'
Kevin Robins -> old --continuity--> new

Old media in new times?

-New media -> digital TV or IP TV
-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

##My opinion

Two type 'New media'

1. old, historical, past --continuity--> new media -> commercialization

2. old --not continuity & revolutionary--> new media -> totally newness

The majority is first type new media our world.
But, The future of new media -> many not continuity new media -> the birth of unimaginable future world