soongsil university 

2015 Spring
New Media Study

Week 1 introduction of the class : our study

2015.03.03

What to do today

  • get the required texts
Week 2 biocybernetics and architecture

03.10

  • 1. Aesthetics of biocybernetic designs: A systems approach to biorobots and its implications for the environment [jongcheon]
  • 2. Nervous ether: Soft aggregates, Interactive skins [geunyoung]
Week 3 object and material

03.17

  • 3. Object intermediaries: How new media artists translate the launguage of things [eunha]
  • 4. Transmission: A telepresence interface for neural and kinetic interaction [iljoo]
Week 4 autopoiesis and music

03.24

  • 5. Alan Turing's drawings, autopoiesis and can bioldings think? [kyoungah]
  • 6. The serial collaborator: A meta-pianist for real-time tonal and non-tonal music generation [juwi]
Week 5 generative computer art

03.31

  • 7. Ten questions concerning generative computer art [jaebum]
  • 8. Dispositional realism and the specificity of digital media [eunsun]
Week 6 trends in art and technology

04.07

  • 9. Embodiment, interaction and experience: Aesthetic trends in interactive media arts [bokyoung]
  • 10. Information-based development trend of building skin design [eunsun]
Week 7 computing new reality

04.14

  • 11. Digital Mandala: The post-virtual as meditation of impermanence or a new reality [kokyoong]
  • 12. Hybrid biological-digital systems in artistic and entertainment computing [jongse]
Week 8 Mid-term

04.21
*no class

  • mid-term break
Week 9 algorithms and fabrication

04.28

  • 13. Algorithms as structural metaphors: Reflections on the digital-cultural feedback loop [bokyoung]
  • 14. Hybrid reassemblage: An exploration of craft, digital fabrication and artifact uniqueness [jongcheon]
Week 10 children's day

05.05

  • children's day: no class
Week 11 art and process

05.12

  • 15. The veiled christ of cappella sansevero: On art, vision and reality [jaebum]
  • 16. Mobiles, moleculues and the coalescence of processes [iljoo]
Week 12 video and design

05.19

  • 17. Some video abstraction techniques for displaying body movement in analysis and performance [eunha]
  • 18. Dynamic sites: Learning to design in techno-social landscapes [jaehwan]
Week 13 nano and navigation

05.26

  • 19. Invisible navigation (or impssible?) [juwi]
  • 20. The role of images and art in nanotechnology [kyoungah]
Week 14 nano and performance

06.02

  • 21. Nano in sight: Epistemology, aesthetics, comparisons and public perceptions of images of nanoscale objects [younghee]
  • 22. Capturing the body live: A framework for technological recognition and extension of physical expression in performance [jongse]
Week 15 nano and device

06.09

  • 23. Karakuri: Subtle trickery in device art and robotics demonstrations at miraikan [aslbeck]
  • 24. Weather as medium: Art and meteorological science [kokyoong]
Week 16 final term examination priod

06.16

final-term period