The Experiment of Knowledge Crossing Boundaries: Subject “Machine Criticism”
The Experiment of Knowledge Crossing Boundaries: Subject “Machine Criticism”
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Youngjin Oh (Culture Critic, Professor in charge of “Machine Criticism” at Hanyang University, Erica Campus)
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. As the title suggests, the core task of this course is to collide two incompatible words, “machine” and “criticism.” “Machine Criticism” was initiated with the work of Youngjun Lee, who has tried a new way of reading comprehension on everyday media and mechanical environments, breaking away from the existing general photographic criticism. While the criticisms so far have only talked about the errors and utility checks of machines, this lecture is intended to reflect on our real life and consciousness, which change along with the use of machines.“Machine Criticism,” as an elective course, attempts to arrive at the true cultural history of machines by adding human experience to the historical context and technological history of machines. To this end, we take a serious approach to how technology has been combined with politics and how technology and media have affected the human body. Also, we try to check the possibility that the usefulness and purpose of machines are ultimately determined by the users, not the creators.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.
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