schedule

soongsil university 

2019 fall
media aesthetics

Week 1

introduction of the class

03.05

What to do today

  • get the required texts: Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz, Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.

Week 2

Introduction

03.12

  • 1. Introduction 1-19 [dryoon]
       

  • 1) Augmented Fauna and Glass Mutations: A Dialogue Between Material and Technique in Glassblowing and 3D Printing
    Tobias Klein
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 336–342 [
    dr yoon]

Week 3

Gramophone-1

03.19

  • 2. 21-38 [ms choi]
       

  • 2) Inhabitat: An Imaginary Ecosystem in a Children’s Science Museum
    Haru Hyunkyung Ji and Graham Wakefield
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 343–348 [ms choi]

Week 4

Gramophone-2

03.26

  • 3. 38-59 [mj park]

  • 3) Cop to Conductor: Negotiating and Remapping Meaning in Existing Public Art
    Todd Berreth
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 349–355 [mj park]

Week 5

Gramophone-3

04.02

  • 4. 59-78 [yj shin]

  • 4) Advertising Positions: Data Portraiture as Aesthetic Critique
    Daniel C. Howe, Qianxun Chen, and Zong Chen
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 413–418 [yj shin]

Week 6

Gramophone-4

04.09

  • 5. 78-98 [jy yoo]

  • 5) Diastrophisms: Visual and Sound Assembly in Remembrance of an Earthquake
    Nicole L’Huillier and Valentina Montero
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 356–361 [jy yoo]

Week 7

Gramophone-5

04.16

  • 6. 99-114 [sy jang]

  • 6) Holojam in Wonderland: Immersive Mixed Reality Theater
    David Gochfeld, Corinne Brenner, Kris Layng, Sebastian Herscher, Connor DeFanti, Marta Olko, David Shinn, Stephanie Riggs, Clara Fernández-Vara, and Ken Perlin
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 362–367 [sy jang]

Week 8

Mid-term

04.23*

*no class

  • mid-term break

Week 9

Film-1

04.30

  • 7. 115-133 [hw jung]

  • 7) Alienating the Familiar with CGI: A Recipe for Making a Full CGI Art House Animated Feature
    Paul Charisse and Alex Counsell
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 368–374 [hw jung]

Week 10

Film-2

05.07

  • 8. 134-154 [ej kim]
     
  • 8) Digital Heritage: Bringing New Life to the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Audio-Visual Archives with Immersive Installations
    Nicolas Henchoz and Allison Crank
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 375–380 [ej kim]

Week 11

Film-3

05.14

  • 9. 155-182 [mk choi]

  • 9) Data Materialization: A Hybrid Process of Crafting a Teapot
    Courtney Starrett, Susan Reiser, and Tom Pacio
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 381–385 [mk choi]

Week 12

Typewriter-1

05.21

  • 10. 183-202 [dy shin]

  • 10) Robotype: Studies of Kinetic Typography by Robot Display for Expressing Letters, Time and Movement
    Yuichiro Katsumoto
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 386–393 [dy shin]

Week 13

Typewriter-2

06.28

  • 11. 202-221 [ozlem]

  • 11) Here and Now: Indigenous Canadian Perspectives and New Media in Works by Ruben Komangapik, Kent Monkman and Adrian Duke
    Brittany Myburgh
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 394–398 [jh park]

Week 14

Typewriter-3

06.04

  • 12. 221-241 [ks jang]

  • 12)
  • CASTING: Site-Specific Projection Mapping Installation
  • Yiyun Kang
  • Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 399–404 [ks jang]

Week 15

Typewriter-4

06.11

  • 13. 241-263 [jy yoo]

  • 13) Entropy and FatFinger: Challenging the Compulsiveness of Code with Programmatic Anti-Styles
    Daniel Temkin
    Leonardo August 2018, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 405–412 [ozlem]

Week 16

final term examination priod

06.18*

*no class

final-term period