schedule

soongsil university 

2017 Fall
Culture Content and Technology

l  Lectures are given for the spare time after the main presentation. The given schedule could be changed.

Week 1

Introduction

09.05

What to do today

  • get the required texts

Week 2

I. Artists’ Experiments-1

09.12

1-Scanning, Framing and Close-Up: Reimaging the Brain in 265 Looping Snapshots
Silvia Casini
Leonardo April 2017, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 127–131 [kyoungah kwon]

2-Mestizo Robotics
Gustavo Crembil, and Paula Gaetano Adi
Leonardo April 2017, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 132–137

Siggraph art paper-1: Creature:Interactions: A Social Mixed-Reality Playspace
Andrew Bluff, and Andrew Johnston
Leonardo August 2017, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 360–367 [sungwook chae]

*Lecture on “20 Key Concepts in New Media”

Week 3

I. Artists’ Experiments-2

09.19

3-Abject Digital Performance: Engaging the Politics of Electronic Waste
Daniël Ploeger
Leonardo April 2017, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 138–142 [kyoungah kwon]

4-A Strong Couple: New Media and Socially Engaged Art
Sjoukje van der Meulen
Leonardo April 2017, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 170–176 [bocheng hu]

Siggraph art paper-2: The Interactive Image: A Media Archaeology Approach
Esteban García Bravo, Andrés Burbano, Vetria L. Byrd, and Angus G. Forbes
Leonardo August 2017, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 368–375

*Lecture on “Participatory Media Culture”

Week 4

I. Artists’ Experiments-3

09.26

5-Rule-Based Automatic Generation of Logo Designs
Yi-Na Li, Kang Zhang, and Dong-Jin Li
Leonardo April 2017, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 177–181 [junghoe kim]

6-Sounds of Time and Place
Jerry Fishenden
Leonardo February 2017, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 12–19 [yoojin shin]

Siggraph art paper-3: Autoencoding Blade Runner: Reconstructing Films with Artificial Neural Networks
Terence Broad, and Mick Grierson
Leonardo August 2017, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 376–383 [eunyoung lee]

*Lecture on “Games”

Week 5

Holiday

10.03*

*no class

  • Enjoy the full moon festival!

Week 6

I. Artists’ Experiments-4

10.10

7-ArtMaps: A Technology for Looking at Tate’s Collection
Gabriella Giannachi, Rebecca Sinker, John Stack, Cristina Locatelli, Laura Carletti, Dominic Price, Derek McAuley, Tim Coughlan, and Steve Benford
Leonardo February 2017, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 20–26 [bocheng hu]

8-Conservation Science and Contemporary Art: Thinking about Tenerife
Luke A’Bear, James Curtis Hayward, and Meredith Root-Bernstein
Leonardo February 2017, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 27–30 [jihee park]

Siggraph art paper-4: Avoid Setup: Insights and Implications of Generative Cinema
Dejan Grba
Leonardo August 2017, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 384–393 [  ]

Week 7

I. Artists’ Experiments-5

10.17

9-Expectations versus Reality of Artificial Intelligence: Using Art to Examine Ontological Issues
Giuseppe Torre
Leonardo February 2017, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 31–35 [kyoungah kwon]

10-Smellmap: Amsterdam—Olfactory Art and Smell Visualization
Kate McLean
Leonardo February 2017, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 92–93 [kyoungah kwon]

Siggraph art paper-5: Lenticular Waterwheels: Simultaneous Kinetic and Embedded Animation
Scott Hessels
Leonardo August 2017, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 394–399 [junghoe kim]

*Lecture on “Creative Industries”

Week 8

Mid-term

10.24*


*no class

  • mid-term break

Week 9

II. Engineers’ Approaches-1

10.31

11-Application of Cellular Automata for a Generative Art System
Jae Kyun Shin
Leonardo October 2016, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 431–435 [  ]

12-A Variational Art Algorithm for Image Generation
Yoon Young Kim, Jae Chun Ryu, Eunil Kim, Hyoungkee Kim, and Byungseong Ahn
Leonardo June 2016, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 226–231 [sungwook chae]

Siggraph art paper-6: Transforming the Commonplace through Machine Perception: Light Field Synthesis and Audio Feature Extraction in the Rover Project
Robert Twomey, and Michael McCrea
Leonardo August 2017, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 400–408 [  ]

Week 10

II. Engineers’ Approaches-2

11.07

13-Studies in Composing Hydrogen Atom Wavefunctions
Lance J. Putnam, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, and Luca Peliti
Leonardo April 2015, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 158–166 [yoojin shin]

14-Brunelleschi's Discovery of Perspective's “Rule”
Malcolm Park
Leonardo June 2013, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 259–266 [ansung na]

Week 11

II. Engineers’ Approaches-3

11.14

15- Computer Analysis Reveals Similarities between the Artistic Styles of Van Gogh and Pollock
Lior Shamir
Leonardo April 2012, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 149–154 [hyeran yoo]

16- Rembrandt's Textural Agency: A Shared Perspective in Visual Art and Science
Steve DiPaola, Caitlin Riebe, and James T. Enns
Leonardo April 2010, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 145–151 [ansung na]

Week 12

II. Engineers’ Approaches-4

11.21

17- Perception of Space in Piero della Francesca's Annunciation: An Eye-Movement and Art-Historical Study
Zoï Kapoula, Maria-Pia Bucci, Qing Yang, and Francesca Bacci
Leonardo April 2010, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 153–158 [hyeran yoo]

* Lecture on “The Global Knowledge Economy”

Week 13

III. Ambiguous Researchers’ Experimental Aesthetics-1

11.28

18-At the Crossroads of Art and Science: Neuroaesthetics Begins to Come into Its Own
Jose L Contreras-Vidal, Jeannie Kever, Dario Robleto, and James Rosengren
Leonardo Accepted for publication [jihee park]

19-Art Let Loose: Autonomous Procedures in Art-making
David Hosking
Leonardo Accepted for publication [ansung na]

Week 14

III. Ambiguous Researchers’ Experimental Aesthetics-2

12.05

20-Documenting Media Art: A WEB 2.0-Archive and Bridging Thesaurus for MediaArtHistories
Oliver Grau, Sebastian Haller, Janina Hoth, Viola Rühse, Devon Schiller, and Michaela Seiser
Leonardo Accepted for publication [yoojin shin]

21- Concrete Photography: (In-Between) Light Image and Data Image
Gottfried Jäger
Leonardo Accepted for publication [junghoe kim]

Week 15

III. Ambiguous Researchers’ Experimental Aesthetics-3

12.12

22-A Virtual Three-Dimensional Model of Las Meninas: Paradox or Mirror Image?
Luis Ramón-Laca
Leonardo Accepted for publication [  ]

23-Biopoiesis: Electrochemical Media
Carlos Castellanos
Leonardo Accepted for publication [eunyoung lee]

Week 16

final term examination period

12.19*

final-term period

 *no class