Connected Society
Connected Society
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The lecture series of the Center for Art Convergence present various interdisciplinary discourses and criticisms that can often be seen in our society.
The 2018 lecture program “Connected Society” aims to create a space of multi-faceted discourses by dealing with the topic of “connection” from various perspectives and fields in modern society, where each subject is closely connected with each other for various reasons and methods. Scrutinizing the potential of “connection” that surrounds us through the academy, technology, society, art, and game fields, we tried to explore the convergence value that connects and crosses.
In the first lecture, we will look at Mixrice’s works to examine the practice method of artists who connect others and the world through art. The second lecture investigated the significance of “Seongbuk Art Commons,” a virtual village established to connect artists with a specific region.
If the first and second lectures were about practice in the field of art, the subsequent lectures focus on how we are connected through the influence of technology. The third lecture was on the background of opening the course “Machine Criticism” at Hanyang University Erica Campus, focusing on the context in which the humanities, technology, and art are connected and how it was solved through education.
The fourth lecture dealt with the chronology of communication technology developed for long-distance communication, focusing on the United States and Korea. Also, its discussion was expanded beyond the physical connection to a virtual connection. In the last lecture, we looked at the connections and experiments between players that take place through the interactive genre of games, reviewing the experimental game festival “Out of Index.”
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Mixrice’s work mainly starts with conversations and is put into practice by establishing relationships. In particular, in addition to the team of “Cheolmo Yang-Jieun Cho,” Mixrice’s work is carried out by collaborating with various groups of people, such as naturalized migrants and Indonesian artists. Through the art practice of Mixrice, centered on the keywords of migration and travel, we can explore what an artist can and should do to connect others with the world.http://www.mixrice.org
We will take a look at “Seongbuk Art Commons,” a regional art project that is taking place in Seongbuk-gu, where Korea National University of Arts is located. Opened to revitalize local culture based on visual arts, “Seongbuk Art Commons” is based on an imaginary town, “Seongbuk Art Dong” – a town that does not exist in administrative districts – where artists, art space operators, planners, and art lovers live together based on art galleries, cultural hub spaces, and artist studios. It is a project that has been carried out since 2015. This year, by expanding the studios of local artists into a regional network, a visiting program and collaborative residency program were promoted under the theme of “public residency.”
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Hanyang University’s “Machine Criticism” course (Erica Campus), which celebrated its 7th anniversary this year, is a subject that reflects contemporary issues and is composed of lectures provided by speakers active in the fields of technology, society, humanities, and arts. In October 2015, Professor Youngjin Oh started “The Challenge of Machine Criticism” with Professor Youngjun Lee, and in the first semester of 2017, under the theme of “Techno Feminism,” he began to pay attention to those who were marginalized from “The History of Subjects Connected to Technological Objects.” “The Coming Virtual Reality Era and the Cyberpunk Responding to this Era” of the first semester of 2018 encouraged a reflective approach to VR and furthermore, virtuality. Professor Oh’s “Machine Criticism” talks about “interdisciplinary thinking” that can be achieved by educational methodological practice that includes the idea of traversing rather than adding or multiplying. In this lecture, along with the background of planning these courses, we will look at the context of the connection among technology, humanities, and art.
What technologies have we developed to communicate and connect with each other? Among 39 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center in the United States, Korea ranked first in terms of internet and smartphone penetration rates. Likewise, communication technology, including the Internet, played a major role in creating Korea, which is known as a “connected society.” In this lecture, we will compare the changes in Korean communication technology that have developed for communication and connection with the case of the United States. Also, we will examine how these changes influenced our thoughts and society. To do this, we will review a chronological examination of telegraph technology in the 19th century, the development of the telephone, and contemporary technology.
“Out of Index”: Interconnection among games, art, and players – Sun Park (Indie Game Developer)
Games are attracting attention as an expression medium with the potential for artistic expression and cultural practice. In this lecture, various possibilities of games were explored through the story of developer Sun Park, who creates communities connected through games such as “Out of Index,” “Seoul Indies,” and “Global Game Jam.” In the game industry where it is easy to focus only on popularity and profits, participants had an opportunity to think about the significance of media expression by examining the background of planning to express fresh inspiration, ideas, and experimental spirit with “experimental games” as well as the discourses on diversity.https://www.outofindex.orgReport abuse