2007.09.04
2007.09.06 (*no class)

• Main text: Marti Lister et al., "New Media: a critical introduction" (London,New York: Routledge, 2002)
• Stephen David Ross, ed., "Art and Its Significance" (Albani, SUNY Press, 1987)

refernce texts

• Michael Rush, "New Media in late 20th-century art" (London: Thames & Hudson, 1998)
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, "New media, Old media: a history and theory reader" (New York: Routledge, 2006)
• Noah Wardrip-Fruin,ed., "The New Media Reader" (Cambridge: MIT P, 2003)
  

watching video

• the truly soft side of software , by Golan Levin
• the glove, beer& smokes films

• get the required texts reserved in the library
• create a weblog on blogger.com;
• write your first entry in your weblog;
• subscribe to the course list (today):<media-aesthetics-subscribe@googlegroups.com>
• email the url of your blog to the course list.

2007.09.11
2007.09.13 (* no class)

reading [the professor]

• Plato, Aristoteles, Greek mythology
• Hume, Kant, Hegel
• Goodman, Heidegger
• weblog & email lists for new comers : so far (9/10) 14 students only registered. 10 more presenters

2007.09.18
2007.09.20

reading [boondo song, yeaseul song]

• 1.1.1 the media as an institution & 1.1.2 the intensity of change
• 1.1.3 the ideological connotations of the new

2007.09.25
(*full-moon holidays: no class)
2007.09.27

reading [eui-kwon song, soojung shin]

• 1.1.4 non-technical and inclusive
• 1.1.5 Distinguishing between kinds of new media

2007.10.02
2007.10.04

reading [sungwon jung, kihoon kim]

• 1.2.1 digitality
• 1.2.2 interactivity

2007.10.09
2007.10.11

reading [jinjoo lee, jooyub shin]

• 1.2.3 hypertext
• 1.2.4 dispersal

*no class in the week
2007.10.16
2007.10.18

mid-term paper due: 2007.10.18 12:00 : send paper via email to the professor.

• your paper analyzing open api via comparison with a web crawler
• your weblog

2007.10.23
2007.10.25

reading [gyuho choi, jiye jeon]

• 1.2.5 virtuality
• 1.2.6 which virtual reality?
• 1.2.7 cyberspace & 1.2.8 conclusion

2007.10.30
2007.11.01 

reading [taewoo kim, jeongjin lee]

• 1.3.1 introduction & 1.3.2 measuring newness

2007.11.06
2007.11.08

reading [semi park, nahyun cho]

• 1.4.1 teleological accounts of new media
• 1.4.2 new media and the modernist concept of progress

2007.11.13
2007.11.15

reading [dayun lee, samyeol jin]

• 1.4.3 the return of the middle ages and other media archaeologies
• 1.4.4 a sense of deja vu & conclusion

2007.11.20
2007.11.22

reading [hyerim park, joohee hahn]

• 1.5.1 the question
• 1.5.2 the technological imaginary
• 1.5.3 the discursive construction of new media & conclusion

2007.11.27
2007.11.29

reading [jiyoon kim, dahye yoo]

• 1.5.5 the return of the Frankfurt school critique in the popularisation of new media & conclusion
• 1.6.1 the status of McLuhan and Williams

2007.12.04
2007.12.06

reading [hyowon kwon, sunghoon lee]

• 1.6.2 mapping Marshall McLuhan and Williams
• 1.6.3 Williams and the social shaping of technology
• 1.6.4 the many virtues of Sant McLuhan

2007.12.11
2007.12.13

reading [sungbae kim, youngjoo you]

• 1.6.5 conclusion: the extent of the 'extensions of man'

*no class in the week
2007.12.18
2007.12.20

final-term paper due: 2007.12.18 12:00 : send paper via email to the professor.

• your paper analyzing a media artwork using network
• your weblog