soongsil university 

2014 Spring
advanced media aesthetics

Week 1 introduction of the class : our study

2014.03.04

What to do today

  • get the required texts
Week 2 Art and Science

03.11

  • 1. Stephen Wilson, Art and Science as Cultural Acts [1] eunha
Week 3 Interdisciplinary Studies

03.18

  • 2-1. Hans H. Diebner, Dossier: Performative Science-Reconciliation of Science and Humanities or the End of Philosophy? [2-1]
  • 2-2. Sian Ede, Introduction: Ambiguities and Singularities [2-2] geunyoung
Week 4 On Philosophy of Technology

03.25

  • 3. Martin Heidegger, The Age of the World Picture [3] minjung k
Week 5 On Media Theory

04.01

  • 4. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Constituents of a Theory of the Media [4] kyoungah
Week 6 Vision Machinology

04.08

  • 5. Jean-Louis Comoli, Machines of the Visible [5] minfu
Week 7 Cybernetic Culture

04.15

  • 6. Bill Nichols, The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems [6] kokyoong
Week 8 Mid-term

04.22
*no class

  • mid-term break
Week 9 Imagiology

04.29

  • 7. Raymond Bellour, The Double Helix [7] minjung w
Week 10 Buddah's day

05.06
*no class

  • buddha's day
Week 11 Electronic Illusion

05.13

  • 8. Kim H. Veltman, Electronic Media, The Rebirth of Perspective and the Fragmentation of Illusion [8] jongcheon
Week 12 Automatic Sight

05.20

  • 9. Lev Manovich, Automation of Sight: from Photography to Computer Vision [9] yeonsik
Week 13 Posthuman 1

05.27

  • 10. N. Katherine Hayles, Toward Embodied Virtuality [10] bongsin
Week 14 Posthuman 2

06.03

  • 11. N. Katherine Hayles, Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers [11] jaehwan
Week 15 Posthuman 3

06.10

  • 12. N. Katherine Hayles, Narratives of Artificial Life [12] jina
Week 16 final term examination priod

06.17

final-term period