schedule

soongsil university 

2017 Spring
New Media Study: The Subject & Information

Week 1

introduction of the class : our study

03.07

What to do today

  • get the required texts

Week 2

From Sign to Subject-1

03.14

  • 1. Silverman 3-14, Ferdinand De Saussure
  • 2. Silverman 14-25, Charles Sanders Peirce [kyounga kwon]
  • Deletion Process_Only you can see my history: Investigating Digital Privacy, Digital Oblivion, and Control on Personal Data Through an Interactive Art Installation, Leonardo, Volume 49, Number 4, 2016, pp. 324-333 [junghoe kim]

Week 3

From Sign to Subject-2

03.21

  • 3. Silverman 25-32, Roland Barthes
  • 4. Silverman 32-43, Jacques Derrida
  • 5. Silverman 43-53, Emile Benveniste [jaeyub noh]
  • Perceptual Cells: James Turrell’s Vision Machines Between Two Paracinemas, Leonardo, Volume 49, Number 4, 2016, pp. 306-316 [yu tongtong]

*    보호수와 함께 춤을” 2015 안근영감독: screening, talk with the director & short lecture on critique (정보대 미디어 스튜디오) 6pm

Week 4

Primary and Secondary Processes-1

03.28

  • 6. Silverman 54-66 The Early Topography, The Pleasure Principle, Repression and Disguise
  • 7. Silverman 66-76 Primary and Secondary Processes
  • Pulse Shape 22: Audiovisual Performance and Data Transmutation, Leonardo, Volume 49, Number 4, 2016, pp. 317-323 [danbi cho]

*    Presentations of critiques on 보호수와 함께 춤을” 2015 안근영감독 (정보대 미디어 스튜디오) 6pm

Week 5

Primary and Secondary Processes-2

04.04

  • 8. Silverman 77-86 Desire and Signification [jongcheon shin]
  • Raised On YouTube: Cultural Data Materialization Using Plants, Leonardo, Volume 49, Number 4, 2016, pp. 342-349 [baeksung ho]

Week 6

Similarity and Contiguity-1

04.11

  • 9. Silverman 87-101 Condensation and Displacement
  • 10. Silverman 102-109 Paradigm and Syntagm [kyounga kwon]

Week 7

Similarity and Contiguity-2

04.18

  • 11. Silverman 109-125 Metaphor and Metonymy, Facilitations [kyounga kwon]
  • Visual History with Choson Dynasty Annals, Leonardo, Volume 49, Number 4, 2016, pp. 334-341 [jiang keyan]

Week 8

Mid-term

04.25
*no class

  • mid-term break

Week 9

The Subject *Dr.Yoon Suture

05.02

  • 12. Silverman 126-149 The Freudian Model
  • 13. Silverman 149-193 The Lacanian Model
  • THE OTHER DIGITAL: A study between algorithmic design and glitch aesthetics in digital architecture, Emerging Experience in Past, Present and Future of Digital Architecture, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia CAADRIA 2015, 829-838. [junghoe kim]

Week 10

Re-Writing the Classic Text

05.09

  • 14. Silverman 194-215 Discourse and Subjectivity, Suture: The Cinematic Model
  • 15. Silverman 215-236 Suture and Ideology, Suture and Sexual Difference [jaeyub noh]
  • ((16. Silverman 237-250 The Readerly Text, The Writerly Text)
  • 17. Silverman 250-270 The Code, i)The Semic Code, ii)The Hermeneutic Code, iii)The Proairetic Code [jongscheon shin])))
  • 18. Silverman 270-283 iv)The Symbolic Code, v)The Cultural Codes [kyounga kwon]

Week 11

Openness, Information, Communication-1

05.16

  • 19. Eco 44-58
    I. Information Theory: The Concept of Information in the Work of Norbert Wiener,
    The Difference between Meaning and Information, Meaning and Information in the Poetic Message,
    The Transmission of Information [jongcheon shin]
  • Some Principles of Visual Design for Computer Music, Leonardo Music Journal, Volume 26, 2016, pp. 14-19 [ansung na]

Week 12

Openness, Information, Communication-2

05.23

  • 20. Eco 58-69
    II. Poetic Discourse and Information: Musical Discourse, Information, Order, and Disorder,
    Postscript
    [kyounga kwon]
  • Ten Questions Concerning Generative Computer Art, Leonardo, Volume 47, Number 2, 2014, pp. 135-141 [shavkat khomidoo]

Week 13

Openness, Information, Communication-3

05.30

  • 21. Eco 70-83
    III. Information and Psychological Transaction: Transaction and Openness, Information and Perception
     [jaeyub noh]
  • Boundless Ontologies: Michael Snow, Wittgenstein, and the Textual Film, Cinema Journal, Volume 54, Number 3, Spring 2015, pp. 69-87 [geunyoung ahn]

Week 14

Openness, Information, Communication

06.06*

*holiday

  • holiday

Week 15

Writing Theses

06.13

  • Writing Theses & Journal Articles

Week 16

final term examination priod

06.20

final-term period