soongsil university 

2012 spring
advanced media art

Week 1 introduction of the class : our study

2012.03.06

What to do today

  • get the required texts
  • digital media, information, art
Week 2 Database Aesthetics 1

03.13

  • Introduction [dr.yoon] intro.pdf
  • ch. 1 seeing the world in a grain of sand: the database aesthetics of everything [jangwon, deji]]
Week 3 New Media Art

03.20

  • current new media arts
Week 4 Database Aesthetics 2

03.27

  • ch. 2 database as symbolic formal [youngdo, seungae]
  • Lyotard (1984) 1. The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies
Week 5 Database Aesthetics 3

04.03

  • ch. 3 ocean, database, recut [wonjin, geunyoung]
Week 6 Database Aesthetics 4

04.10

  • ch. 4 waiting for the world to explode: how data convert into a novel [tranbintin duk]
  • ch. 5 the database as system and cultural form: anatomies of cultural narratives [eungsuk]
Week 7 Database Aesthetics 5

04.17

  • ch. 6 the database imaginary: memory_archive_database v 4.0 [ahn]
  • ch. 7 recombinant poetics and related databased aesthetics [nahn]
Week 8 mid-examination period

04.24
*no class

  • mid-term break
Week 9 Database Aesthetics 6

05.01

  • ch. 8 the database: an aesthetics of dignity [hwangahn, tranhoang]
  • Paik (1968) "Expanded Education for the Paper-Less Society"
Week 10 Database Aesthetics 7

05.08

  • ch. 9 network aesthetics [choi gang, lim bin]
Week 11 Network

05.15

Week 12 Database Aesthetics 8

05.22

  • ch.10 game engines as embedded systems [ma xianglin, bin]
Week 13 Artists and Data Projects 1

05.29

  • ch.11 stock market skirt: the evolution of the internet, the interface, and an idea [sohyung]
  • ch.12 pockets full of memories [mikyoung]
  • ch.13 the raw data diet, all-consuming bodies, and the shape of things to come [jungah]
Week 14 Artists and Data Projects 2

06.05

  • ch.14 time capsule: networking the biological [eunha]
  • ch.15 aesthetics of ecosystem [eungwontanbin]
  • ch.16 polar [choongsub kim]
Week 15 Preparing Paper

06.12

  • preparation of paper
Week 16 final term examination priod

06.19

final-term period