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.