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[안내] 서울대학교 언론정보학과 BK21 FOUR "자유롭고 책임있는 AI 미디어" 교육연구단 & 언론정보연구소, <제17회 해외저명학자 초청 특강> 개최 안내
관리자 | 2023. 04. 20
1. 회원 여러분의 건승을 기원합니다.
2. 서울대학교 언론정보학과 BK21 FOUR "자유롭고 책임있는 AI 미디어" 교육연구단과 언론정보연구소에서 <제17회 해외저명학자 초청 특강>을 개최합니다. 이에 다음과 같이 안내해 드리니, 관심 있는 회원님들의 많은 참여 바랍니다.
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서울대학교 언론정보학과 BK21 FOUR "자유롭고 책임있는 AI 미디어" 교육연구단과 언론정보연구소에서는 커뮤니케이션학계 해외 유수 학자들을 초청해 다양한 주제의 강연 시리즈를 개최하고 있습니다.
이 세션은 온라인(ZOOM)으로 진행됩니다. 특강 참여 시 화면은 켜주시기 바랍니다.
많은 분들의 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.
일시: 4월 27일(목) 10:00-12:00
접속 링크: https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/97883246250 (회의 ID: 978 8324 6250)
강연자: Steve Choe (San Francisco State University)
제목: Long Distance Recall: Nam June Paik and the Prosthetics of Memory
내용:
Nam June Paik, during his prolific and varied career as a musician, artist, and thinker of electronic media, has striven to humanize our relationship to technology. Focusing on two installation pieces, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Megatron/Matrix, both from 1995, this essay takes this idea further and shows how the human capacity for retention has been constituted technologically through moving image archiving. Electronic Superhighway features 51-channel video feeds, each dedicated to a US state. The content of each feed is made up of stereotypical images as they would be known nationally or globally (the Iowa caucuses, the film Meet Me in St. Louis [1944] for Missouri). Megatron/Matrix also features found footage, depicting cartoon characters, Korean folk dancing, national flags, and the Seoul Olympics, among other images. The presentation of this footage, across 215 monitors, is objectifying and mesmerizing.
Drawing from the writings of Siegfried Kracauer, Bernard Stiegler, and Paik’s own writings, this essay shows how Paik’s work anticipates the radical transformation in humans’ capacity to recall the past, of histories that have and have not been lived, through prosthetic communication technologies such as the “information superhighway” of the internet. Megatron/Matrix provides a critical view on this transformation, showing how the “outsourcing” of memory to electronic images, and particularly the globalization of Korean national specificity, potentially removes ontological differences contingent upon distinctions between near and far. After having left Korea and lived abroad for almost four decades, Paik observed the turbulent political and economic developments of his birthland as well as the triumph of the 1988 Olympics from a distance, but was able to recall them as global signifiers through the electronic image.
강연자 소개:
Steve Choe is an associate professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. His areas of research and teaching include film and media theory, philosophy, and the cinemas of Germany and Korea. He is the author of Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany (2014), Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium (2016), and ReFocus: The Films of Williams Friedkin (2021). He is also a co-editor, with Mayumo Inoue, of Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia (2019) and is the editor of the Palgrave Handbook for Violence in Film and Media (2022).
