soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2010 spring
digital media curating

 

Week 1 introduction of the class : our study and life

2010.03.03-04

*no class on mar. 04

 

 

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

2010.03.10-11

  • positioning new media art and curatorial models
  • interfacing new media
  • from object to process and system
  • autonomous cultural zones
  • case studies
  • ppt 0
Week 2 1. new media art and the gallery in the digital age

2010.03.17-18

*no class on mar. 17,18

  • histories of digital art
  • museums and the archive of the future
  • ppt 1
Week 4 2. immateriality and its discontents: an over view of main models and issues for curating new media

2010.03.24-25

  • museums and curating
  • autonomous zones and temporary contemporaries: the effect of networking
  • alternatives to the traditional museum exhibition
  • alternative models of curating
  • ppt 2
Week 5 3. challenges for a ubiquitous museum

2010.03.31-04.01

  • challenging of the medium
  • models of presentation: from installation to mobile art
  • platforms of exchange
  • engaging the audience
  • ppt 3
  • short research 1: On "Les Immatériaux” 1985, the Centre Pompidou, Paris (1 printed page due:04.08)
Week 6 4. curating net art: a field guide

2010.04.07-08

  • ornithology
  • runme.org-habitat enhancement
  • lepidoptery
  • vivariums and eco-tours
  • hybrid roses
  • diversity
  • ppt 4
Week 7 5. distributed curating and immateriality

2010.04.14-15

  • immateriality
  • transformative systems
  • distributed curating
  • ppt 5
Week 8 mid-examination period

*no class in the week
2010.04.21-22

  • mid-term exam (04.21 10:30am@102)
  • 30%
Week 9 6. death by wall label

2010.04.28-29

  • 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
  • short research 2: On exhibition, "Move on Asia 2010" or "Asia Art Award"- 1page (due 05. 06)
Week 10 [7. participation, flow, and the redistribution of authorship ]

2010.05.05-06

  • 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
Week 11 [8. reconfiguring curation]

2010.05.12-13
*graduation show in DMC

  • 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
Week 12 9. serious games-students' presentation
: seungho kim, eunsung kim, jooeun kim, youngmin paik, jaeil yang

2010.05.19-20

  • background
  • venues
  • installation
  • publicity and print material
  • audience
  • press
  • was the process different?
  • development curves
  • ppt 9
Week 13 10. (re)distributions: pda, information appliance, and nomadic arts as cultural intervention-students' presentation
: hoonyoung kim, wonsuk ho, hosik jang, jongmook choi, youngjae ham

2010.05.26-27

  • 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
Week 14 11. seeing double: emulation in theory and practice-students' presentation
: jiin ahn, arum lee, jungeun lee, heera lim

2010.06.03
*06.02 election day

  • the premise
  • the works
  • ppt 11
Week 15 12. games: computerspiele von kunstlerinnen-students' presentation
: heebum yoon, hojin ryu, kyounggeun jung, chohee paik, mihyun lee

2010.06.09-10

  • subject
  • the presentation of digital art: problems and approaches
  • ppt 12
Week 16 final term examination priod

*no class in the week
2010.06.16-17

final-term exam (06. 17 10:30am@102)

  • 40%