2007년 12월 17일 월요일

Week10 1.4.2

new media and the modernist concept of progress

- Computer artists come to the instrument from art rather than computer science.(Youngblood 1999:48)
- In the name of 'progress' our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the eork of the old.(McLuhan and Fiore 1967a : 81)
- Deferred future of new media :because of technological underdevelopment. :be used and understanding according to older, existing practices and ideas.-The view of modernist aesthetic :medium has to be genuinely new from the past and old mediacomment
All of thechologies are from art related to old media and new media. art is not just art.
art is base on thechology I think. just like our mother.

2007년 12월 12일 수요일

Week15 1.6.5 Last class

'the medium is the masage'

I think that this sentence is very important.And,

'the new media are not brigdes between man and nature' .They are nature.Mcluhan famously views technology as 'extensions' of human capacities and senses.

Definition of technology poses increasingly complex questions as technology itself become more complex :

1. humans and machines 2. Causally 3. 'self-extending' 4. the question of technology in culture

If we answer 4 in the negative, then we see how the question of technology opens onto the question of the physical basis of culture.MetaphysicalRealism and NominalismSoft determinism - means determinist consequences resulting from indeterminate causes.‘What then are the consequences of taking the physical effects of technology seriously?’This question is final question.It entails that we can no longer separate physical from cultural processes, or matter from meaning.All medium is 'extentsions of man'.This is conclusion.I think that if medium is conecting all human's sense.So, learn about medium is fun. It's unlimitted

2007년 12월 7일 금요일

Week 14 1.6.4

* The many virtues of Saint McLuhan 1. The extension thesis 2. The environmental thesis ex)robocop 3. The anti-content thesis ex) the medium is the message

* thesis ->opinion, view point

* Aristotle- soul(basic), body(tool)
* Marx - Nature is not so fast, but it can be changed by human.
* Kapp- compare human organ and technology
* Bergson- prosthetic

I just like with McLuhan's thingking. The medium is the message. In the past people think only contents. Because the contents is one's thinking and essence. So it is important, we must find it. However, today it is changed. The medium is imoportant too. Because when you get the information as different way, you feel different. For example, we can see the event at the newpapers or TV. Newpapers can say to you with anyone's viewpoint. at the same events different newspapers can say to you differently. TV is likely to be differently. But we can see CNN news about USA and IRAQ war. Or We can see IRAQ broadcast about same problem. Are they same? No they are different. So it is so important we see the essence.

2007년 11월 30일 금요일

Week13 1.6.1

Marshall McLuhan & Raymond Williams talk about very different theorists of media.But between McLuhan and Williams is different.McLuhan says new media change everything.Williams tells media can only take effect through already present social processes and sustain existing power relations.There are the status of McLuhan and Williams.One thing is Mainstream of media studies played technological elements medium has.And Williams and Mcluhan carried out their influential work in the 1960s and 1970s.Marshall McLuhan’s major works are “The medium is the message” and “global village”.People call opposite of popular culture 'Central culture'.What does mean central?I think it comes from people’s an idea.Central likes traditional and good.But I think popular also is good.Culture never comes into popular.

2007년 11월 29일 목요일

Week13 1.5.5

The ‘culture industry’, the end of democratic participation and critical distance, is Strinati and Alan Meek.Mass society critics feared four things.First, the debasement and displacementSecond, the erosion of high cultural traditionsThird, loss of the ability of these cultural traditions to comment critically on society 's valuesLast, the indoctrination and manipulation.Totalitarianism is Fascism and Stalinism.It appears upon standardization, political indoctrination.And people are controlled 3S, sex, screen, sports.In those days popular culture grows up!!!Because of viewer are getting more.The ‘mere’ consumer comes from tyranny of market.I think couch potato is good case.Active looking back to a pre-mass culture are the recovery of community, the removal of central authority, control, online publishing and virtual communities.The Brechtian avant-garde and lost opportunitiesv are Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin.Bertolt Brecht says the Radio as an apparatus of communication.He also speaks two-way channels of communication in radio.I think nowadays radio web service offers listener to bring into relationship.Web service is real-time. So listener can send their tales that time.Walter Benjamin talks about “aura”.The “aura” means quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them.

2007년 11월 27일 화요일

Week12 1.5.1

1 The question - One is to kill TV - by Jaron Lanier - Celebrate as overcoming -> Negative limits, oppressive feuture -> Dominant analogue meida - Superiority of new meida -> Retro spective projections -> Post-hoc rationalisations of change

2 the technological imaginary - Psychonalaytic theories - The imaginaire -> Jcques Lacan -> 'real' & 'symbolic' -> Not refer poetic activity of fantasizing - Understanding the conditions -> Seeing values a culture -> Understanding how the concentrate object## The second subject is 'The discursive construction of new meida'.

3 What is discursive- Language doesn't merely describe a pre-given reality. - Language is operating such as microscopes, telescopes and camera elaborated.:: a sense of repetition in how media change - deja vu - the contextual meaning of deja vu:: Determine the kind of media:: Discursive construction of new meida

What is old media? Is it photography or Television ? Somebody hate Television. Because they think television is foolish box .Right, New media like interactive art or game is excellent. However, Television is also excellent because it express many stories through moving image.

2007년 11월 17일 토요일

Week11 1.4.3~4

1. The return of the middle ages and other media archaeologies

-Kevin Robins:
:images now concerns not digital futures.
:to be antique and forgotten media( the panorama. the camera . the stereoscope)
:image->history

-The ludic(cinema and games)
:1900-1920 :panorama(real &fake using films)
:1930-1950 :Hollywood movie(novel moving into screen)
:21c :change in media production and media consumption, blockbuster

-Rhetoric and spatialised memory
:Benjamin Wooly:computer media`s metaphorical desktop

-Edutatinment and the eighteenth - century enlightment
:Babara Maria stafford observes computer garaohics and educational software think of the past media

2. A sense of dejavu & conclusion

dejavu
:Seen this or been here before.
:The contextual meaning of dejavu.
:Visual realit is imaination diffrered from real reality.
:Based on memory

Bollywood movie- from india

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Memory is kind of some media.
and how can we regonize some stuff. that is really important.
It makes us what we want or wish.

2007년 11월 10일 토요일

Week10 1.4.1

teleological (목적론)
cave painting -> fax machine,mobile phone
rheingold's historical scheme -> 전부터 거슬러 올라가서 생각해 봄
cave painting appears to hold the seeds of the faxmachine.

Peter Weibel 's stage 8 : real technological developments in image media production and transmission

michel foucault and genealogies of new media
"emitation painter" => want a real painter

2007년 11월 5일 월요일

Week9 1.3.1~2

revolutionary -> historical perspective

Vanguard VS Modernism

polarised : Media characteristic

im - mediacy : Is continued in transparent state.
hyper -mediacy : More than thing which we want, influence.

Old media in new times?'Digital television' is not a new medium but is best understood as a change in the form of delivering the contents of the TV medium.

House telephone and cell phone..people are sensitive in change, It is important that keep consecutiveness that change.
I can know that "new" can not become occurring in perfectly empty state.

2007년 10월 25일 목요일

Week7 1.2.5~7

Virtual reality is an environment which is produced by a computer and seems very like reality to the person experiencing it.

-The immersive, interactive experiences provided by new forms of image and simulation technology.

-‘Places’ and ‘Spaces’ created by or within communications networks.

Cyberspace--- Two kind of VR- immersive VR- VR of online networkCyberspace feature fusion in the same frame* embodiment A future scenario- Virtual actors- Computing power and bandwidth- Technological imaginaryVR -Telematic, Sensory(Personal experience), conncectivity( World linked)

Virtuality is same meaning with a 'reality' in dictionay but what is really diffenrent with two of these confusing theme? I guess virtuality is simulation of a real by human.

2007년 10월 13일 토요일

Week6 1.2.4

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Week6 1.2.3

Dispersal - the product of shift in our relationships

Consumption - differentiated audience is no longer a mass audience

Mass media(old media) - one way ex) TV, radio

New media - interchange information to many direction

Multiplicity - communicate message at object use different way

Production - traditional bound aries and definitions between different media process break down contentx can be reworked for dozen of different outlet

this weekend blog

2007년 10월 10일 수요일

2007년 10월 7일 일요일

Week5 1.2.1~2

1. analogue vs digital-analogue ->physical propertiessampling->quantization->encoding =>digital-digital ->binary numeric form2. digital tech vs visual literacy
-digital technology - embrace all areas involved art
can dify
-visual literacy - embrace the fluid
Interactivity
1. ideological vs interactivity
-ideological - old media, passive consumption
-interactivity - new media
2. 2paradigms of interaction
->extractive & immersive
3.instrumental view (banking,email..) & ideological view(focused on value)
4.problem
-interpretation -misunderstood
-definition- keep changing
-producers
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I just thought media was kind of feedback in the past during the class.
I mean someone drew paintings and made somethig for letting people know thing-history,
history fact...and....
But these days new media is interactivity.
for example TV, email, internet.... <-this is new media
We can recognize the continued relationship between you and media, other person or something

2007년 9월 28일 금요일

Week4 1.1.5

New Media
:Non-technical, inclusive
:not limited to one narrow concept or field of technology
:range of phenomena
:general, abstract -->inclusive
pure medium--> 'inter' medium = new
categorize

fendal
denotation semiology
↕ ↕
connotation → semantics

painting focus upon meaning better than itself.
New media is everything.
text, computer, paper, painting, photo,web, transportation?, and so on,,,,
New is mediation.

2007년 9월 27일 목요일

Week4 1.1.4

Hm, 'digital' means , not positive such as simple or out-of-dated. However, we need to look at what 'digital' means or is here.Digitazing means a process of represent analog signals in 2-digit numbers, 0 and 1. Because of technological limitations or regulation like a capacity of hard disks, there should be some losses of information when the analog signals are transfered into digitals.Now, let's look at one of the new media's characteristics, inclusiveness.When we talk about the old media, an image is a visionary thing; in other words, it's physical, stable and stational. An image of new media, however, is totally different from the new one. We call it's sensory; I mean it's inclusive. It could be kind of a thought, idea or something in mind.Some scholars divided media into two things; pure and inter media. The former one is based on the visionary image. Also, it's just followed by socciety. For example, arts were existing only for high-class people in the old days becuase they were the only people who bought and enjoyed under the situation of that era.In contrast, as time passed, people tried to break their own thoughts from the pure media. They started to make their own artistic products without being influenced by society. Finally, 'new media' has come up and includes these two kinds of media. To sum up, 'new media' is a kind of terms which explain a current phenomenon, not a technical or cutural term. It includes everything about this world such as cutures, technics, relations, and so forth. Therefore, it can't be impossible to define the term as a one word. However, we know that we live in this world, and we call it 'new media' world becuase everything around us has changed and developed a lot. Maybe we'll call the next world after the 'new media' world as a super new media world.

2007년 9월 19일 수요일

Week2

new media !
New media refers to forms of human and media communication.
It has moved variety forms through TV, radio, computer and different things(culture,AD,,etc).
The distinction between "new media" and "old media" is not distinct
the oldest media have never died, but the tools we've used have.
Now, globalization has been coming. Media is important thing to comunicate the world.

I don't know Media yet. but have knowledge & info
I need time to think about Media deeply.

2007년 9월 13일 목요일