soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2011 spring
digital media curating

 

Week 1 introduction of the class : our study and life

2011.03.02-03

*no class on mar. 03

 

 

  • get the required texts reserved in the library
Week 2 Introduction

2011.03.09-10

  • positioning new media art and curatorial models
  • interfacing new media
  • from object to process and system
  • autonomous cultural zones
  • case studies
  • how to design and curate?-simple process
  • ppt 0
  • new media curating project: draft-1 :1page, word doc. due 03.23 12pm email to dr.yoon
    1. Title and basic concept
    2. choose venue: where? how long?
    2. choose the artists: who? what kind of work?
Week 2 1. new media art and the gallery in the digital age

2011.03.16-17

 

  • histories of digital art
  • museums and the archive of the future
  • ppt 1
  • 17: invited lecture: "working as curator" by curator hyunjung lee (worked at chang gallery, beijing/watergate gallery, seoul)
Week 4 2. immateriality and its discontents: an over view of main models and issues for curating new media

2011.03.23-24

  • museums and curating
  • autonomous zones and temporary contemporaries: the effect of networking
  • alternatives to the traditional museum exhibition
  • alternative models of curating
  • ppt 2
  • 24 : will look through your curating plans with comments-1: you follow up
Week 5 3. challenges for a ubiquitous museum

2011.03.30-03.31

  • challenging of the medium
  • models of presentation: from installation to mobile art
  • platforms of exchange
  • engaging the audience
  • ppt 3
  • 31: will look through your curating plans with comments-2: you follow up
Week 6 4. curating net art: a field guide

2011.04.06-07

  • ornithology
  • runme.org-habitat enhancement
  • lepidoptery
  • vivariums and eco-tours
  • hybrid roses
  • diversity
  • ppt 4
  • 07: presentation 1 (10 students for 5 min each)
Week 7 5. distributed curating and immateriality

2011.04.13-14

  • immateriality
  • transformative systems
  • distributed curating
  • ppt 5
  • 14: presentation 2 (10 students for 5 min each)
Week 8 mid-examination period

2011.04.20-21

*no class in the week

  • mid-term exam period
Week 9 6. death by wall label

2011.04.27-28

  • fixity equals death
  • variable authors: teams
  • variable authors: interpreters
  • variable authors: other models
  • variable titles
  • variable dates
  • variable media
  • variable dimensions
  • variable collections
  • the writing on the wall
  • distribute or die
  • ppt 6
  • 28: presentation 3(10 students for 5 min each)
Week 10 7. participation, flow, and the redistribution of authorship

2011.05.04

*05.05 children's day. no class

  • authorized authors
  • productive exclusions
  • network: metaphor of flows
  • telematic improvisation
  • collecting controversy
  • collaborative community practice: the aborginal contribution
  • technologies that come alive: finding platforms for cohesion
  • the return of the curators
  • preparation method 1: for the final presentation preparation: ppt format
Week 11 (8. reconfiguring curation) graduate theses

2011.05.11-12

  • strange days and the rise of the noninstitutional e-curator
  • definitions and motivations: what/who is a curator?
  • "sites" of independent new media curating
  • intermezzo: porous boundaries
  • ramifications of independent new media curating
  • metaphors for new media culture and curating
  • the revolution will be webcast
  • preparation method 2: for the final presentation preparation: ppt format
  • Artist Talk: 05.12(Thursday 6-8pm) Bokyoung Kim, John Foyle
Week 12 9. serious games

2011.05.18-19

  • background
  • venues
  • installation
  • publicity and print material
  • audience
  • press
  • was the process different?
  • development curves
  • ppt 9
  • 05.19 6pm Geumchun Art Factory: Resident Artists' Presentation
Week 13 10. (re)distributions: pda, information appliance, and nomadic arts as cultural intervention

2011.05.25-26

  • an idea takes shape
  • a call for works as a leap of faith
  • curatorial models of sliding signification
  • categorization of an amophous field
  • "how nothing ever goes as planned"
  • postmortem/next steps
  • ppt 10
  • 25, 26: final presenation 1: 11 students for 10min each)
  • sungha kang, minseo kwak, seungmo ku, ohyun kwon, kyoungmin kim, dongwan kim, sunhwa kim, sunhwi kim, jungho kim, jinju kim, kyoungwan min
Week 14 [11. seeing double: emulation in theory and practice

2011.06.01-02

  • the premise
  • the works
  • ppt 11
  • 01, 02: final presenation 2: 11 students for 10min each)
  • jaejung byun, hyeyun sun, jiyoon song, jiyoon song, junga ahn, turak oh, jiyoung yoon, gayoung lee, dongil lee, sanghyo lee, sukhyoung lee
Week 15 [12. games: computerspiele von kunstlerinnen

2011.06.08-09

  • subject
  • the presentation of digital art: problems and approaches
  • ppt 12
  • 08, 09: final presenation 3: 10 students for 10min each)
  • seulgi lee, taeyoung lee, changsun lim, jinsol jang, narim jung, inyoung jung, mirinae cho, gyuhyun choi, jihee choi, hyerin hwang
Week 16 final term examination priod

2011.06.15-16

*no class in the week

final-term exam period