soongsil university / graduate school the department of Digital Media / www.maat.kr

2007 fall
advanced media aesthetics

 

Week 1 introduction of the class

2007.09.04

topics
  • social computing & information visualization
  • experimental game & new media culture
  • media art & media aesthetics

watching video

  • vizster by jeffrey heer + danah boyd (3 mins)
what to do today

 

Week 2 social computing & information visualization 1

2007.09.11

reading [chair: young-geun kim]

Week 3

2007.09.18
*no class

1. subscribe email list
2. blog address sending

Week 4  

2007.09.25
(*full-moon holidays: no class)

 

Week 5 social computing & information visualization 2

2007.10.02

reading [chair: giwon song]

Week 6 experimental game & new media culture 1

2007.10.09

reading [chair: jimmy low jing hong]

 

Week 7 experimental game & new media culture 2

2007.10.16

reading [chair: seok jun]

outline for final paper due: 2007.10.16 12:00 on your weblog

Week 8 experimental game & new media culture 3

2007.10.23

reading [chair: chee onn]

  • Jose P. Zagal, Michael Mateas, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Brian Hochhalter, Nolan Lichti. " Towards an Ontological Language for Game Analysis." Proceedings of the Digital Interactive Games Research Association Conference (DiGRA 2005), Vancouver B.C., June, 2005.
  • 3 panels (cheolhan lee)
  • outline approval will be anounced.
Week 9 experimental game & new media culture 4

2007.10.30

reading [chair: hyunkyoung cho]

  • Pearce, C. (2006). "Games as Art: The Aesthetics of Play." in Fluxus and Legacy, special issue of Visible Language, Ken Friedman and Owen Smith, issue eds.; Sharon Poggenpohl, series editor and publisher.
  • 3 panels (youngsun choi)
Week 10 media art & media aesthetics 1

2007.11.06

reading [chair: kyoungho lim]

Week 11 media art & media aesthetics 2

2007.11.13

reading [chair: youngsun choi]

Week 12 media art & media aesthetics 3

2007.11.20

reading [chair: taehoon lee]

  • Murtha Baca, William Tronzo. "Art Hisotyr and the Digital World." Art Journal winter 2006, 65, 4: 51-55.
  • Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "The Word as Image in an Age of Digital Reproduction," Eloquent Images, MIT P, 2006, 137-156.
  • 3 panels
Week 13 media art & media aesthetics 4

2007.11.27

reading [chair: moonsun choi]

Week 14 closing discussion

2007.12.04

closing discussion

Week 15 final paper preparation

*no class in the week
2007.12.11

  • final paper preparation
Week 16 final term examination priod

*no class in the week
2007.12.18

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

  • your paper analyzing new media technology in terms of media art, or the media art in terms of new media technologies in a format of leonardo transaction