New media and the modernist concept of progress (11/8)

We have dicussed about modernist and avant-garde.
We can give Picasso as an example for a modernist, and Duchamp for an avant-garde.
Mordenists respect the traditional. Like Picasso, and other artists drew with a brush on a paper with his own way. They respected the traditional way.
On the other hand, Duchamp completely ignored the traditional way. He just put the stool chair in his exhibition.
This is the example of the difference between mordenist and avant-garde.

There is a pictorialist. When photography first came out, the artists were afraid of losing their jobs. But it didn't happen the way they thought. There were many differences between photographs and pictures. People also prefered pictures. So pictorialists came out. They are the people who take a photographs like as if it is a picture.

Well.. there are many technologies developed to make photographs look more like a pictures. Such as photoshop, illustrator, and etc. But I think if you want a real image, use a photograph. If you want something that look more like picture, use drawing. It is best to use either way in specific occasion, since they both have many differences, and good/bad points.

Introduction, Measuring 'newness' & Prof. Roger Palmer's lecture(10/30, 11/1)

First in class, we learned shortly about measuring 'newness' by Jeongjin.

We've talked about 'Old media in new times.'
There are many things which are old media in these days.
As said in class, TV also is an old media. But it just changed into a digital TV which actually is a same meaning, but just a technological change inside.
We can see mobile phone as an example too. That's because, it evolved from big house phones.
Old media kept on changing in new forms based on the original form. Even though it kept on changing, the basic needs will not change.
I bet there are many more old media these days around us, but we just can't recognize, since we are not aware of it.

In my opinion, the changings of old media is reasonable. It's because it is based on our basic needs when it was first made, but just adding more of our needs into it.


In Prof. Roger Palner's lecture, well.. it was a interesting but somehow difficult lecture, he had talked on the cultural (mis)understanding through photographs.
I too agree with his words. When I see a photograph, I don't know what it actually means. I just understand with what I know. Since the photograph(media) reflects authur's point of view, it is somehow impossible to exactly understand what the author thinks.

If you see his photographs, you could see that all of the photographs were taken in normal places which gives you a slight allusion. There were only photos and the region names where the photos were taken.
He wanted the audiences to focus on the relationships between the place and the photo. Also there were some different ways when he took the photographs. The one I can remember is that, he took photographs infront of the surrounding frame.

To wrap up, the lecture was interesting and I look forward to see his exibitions in Korea someday.