[-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion:
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Lacan proposes with his concept of scotoma that the subject in the split of the eye and the gaze takes interest in the “lure” of a privileged object or the “objet a” which emerges from some primal traumatic separation or some self-mutilation induced by the very approach of the real (Seminar XI, 83). This “objet a” is located in the form of the eye-globe or eye-ball which cannot see itself seeing itself, but only focusing on what lies in front of it (in terms of perspective) without regarding what happens out there, reminding me of Tim Murray's comment on the side vision or the peripheral vision which detects objects outside the direct line of vision. ( http://www.google.co.kr/imgres?imgurl=imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwinesurprises.com%2Feye%2Feye-diagram-blind-spot.htmlh=0w=0sz=1tbnid=gwEK2G6CLSHLeMtbnh=198tbnw=254zoom=1docid=HiUTaYpVITGnKMei=G4pRUse_LKTxiAf-lICABgved=0CAIQsCU) Each eye has become a self-contained enclosure with the tunnel vision after having lost the peripheral vision, as the figure of Abraham Bosse's Les perspecteurs (1648) tells us. ( http://www.artnet.de/magazine/die-diktatur-der-fotografie-teil-ix/images/7/) If the eye becomes empty gaze by being picked out of its socket and thrown around--thereby becoming what Zizek calls kino-eye or an organ without a body, and looks into the unconscious Real, then there occurs the inverted use of perspective in the structure of anamorphosis. Lacan's anarmorphic perspective of a hole of the pupil behind which is situated the gaze has been exemplified by the invention of the cinematographic technique of capturing a widescreen picture. Through this standard 35 mm film taken with the anamorphic lens, the picture is optically squeezed in the horizontal dimension to cover the entire film frame, resulting in a better picture quality. This anamorphic lens ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Scope_Aperture.jpg) represents the gaze, through which our position as the lookers-on when we watch the movie becomes self-reflective, and we can participate as our eyes become the eye-globe of the “kino-eye. The deliberate geometric distortion of the anamorphic lens will leave us open to gaze into the stain. I am curious to know how Deleuze and others have reappropriated this foundational thinking of gaze as well as how Deleuze's concept of the screen of the cinema which has moved from a movement-image to a time-image creates the surface of the database of information, leading us to new media and animation. I am particularly intrigued by the dynamic liminal in-betweenness in which the eye-globe transgresses, translated, and transforms itself into the medium of the Globe. -- Youngmin Kim, Ph. D. in English Professor of English, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea President (2012-3), ELLAK Chair, 2013 International Conference Committee of ELLAK (English Langauge Literature Association of Korea) Editor-in-Chief, JELL (Journal of English Language and Literature), an Outstanding Journal Endowed by the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion:
and English A. D. White House Cornell University Ithaca, New York. 14853 From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [ empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] on behalf of Renate Ferro [ r...@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:13 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, (contracted since 2004) Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: rfe...@cornell.edu r...@cornell.edu URL: http://www.renateferro.net http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion:
-- Welcome to October, everyone. Renate and I really delighted to be hosting this month's discussion on Convergence: expanding time-based media. We have guests who work widely across the disciplines and from varying perspectives across the globe so are eager to see how things develop. Our first guest will be Youngmin Kim who is one of Korea's leading interdisciplinary scholars and on the organizing of the Busan International Film Festival which, as Renate mentioned, has chosen the concept Convergence for the conference framing the Festival. Since Busan is Asia's most prestigious film festival, it is exciting that it has opened the doors to reflecting on the shifting ontologies of film, screen culture, and global media. I'm particularly keen to hear empyreans' thoughts on the implications of the convergence of media in which the screen(s) is ubiquitous, audiences are mobile if not virtual, and forms that used to be distinct, from film and video to installation, interactive platforms, listservs, animation, and digital sound and image convergence in recombined forms. So one of the questions we'll be asking is how to understand the current moment of convergence. I was at a conference last weekend on comparative media and a very influential film scholar made a passionate claim that cinema shares with literature the access to profundity in a way that media can't. Although I can understand the historical background of such a claim, I found it so curious in an age when profundity has been democratized, stretched, challenged, and mobilized by interactive performance, mobile technologies, and cross-platform exhibition. I'll expound on remarks that I'll be making at Busan in the following week, but my sense is that the very convergence of technologies in the context of global screen cultures challenges and complicates the very universalist claim of profundity upon which my colleague relies. After Youngmin wakes up (6am his time), I'll look forward to his opening thoughts. Welcome to a new month on -empyre-. We're looking forward to an active discussion. Best, Tim Director, Society for the Humanities Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Professor of Comparative Literature and English A. D. White House Cornell University Ithaca, New York. 14853 From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [ empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] on behalf of Renate Ferro [ r...@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:13 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Renate Ferro Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, (contracted since 2004) Cornell University Department of Art, Tjaden Hall Office: 306 Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: rfe...@cornell.edu r...@cornell.edu URL: http://www.renateferro.net http://www.privatesecretspubliclies.net Lab: http://www.tinkerfactory.net Managing Co-moderator of -empyre- soft skinned space http://empyre.library.cornell.edu/ ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre -- Youngmin Kim, Ph. D. in English Professor of English, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea President (2012-3), ELLAK Chair, 2013 International Conference Committee of ELLAK (English Langauge Literature Association of Korea) Editor-in-Chief, JELL (Journal of English Language and Literature), an Outstanding Journal Endowed by the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion:
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- From: Youngmin Kim yk4...@gmail.com Date: 2013/10/6 Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion: To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Dear Youngmin, We are very honored to be joined by such a distinguished Korean intellectual as yourself. The -empyre- community has a long history of international dialogue, having been established over a decade ago by Melinda Rackham in Australia, where we continue to rely on server space at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. We are very committed to expanding our Asian subscriber and participant base and are excited that your participation marks new progress in this direction. When we gather this week in Busan to discuss the convergence of media, I anticipate that we will have the opportunity to discuss whether or not the Continental focus on the gaze continues to provide an adequate framework for thinking about the intersections of medial screens. There's been much discussion about video art, for example, in relation to the disorienting work of the glance and side vision. Similarly a regular participant on -empyre-, Jordan Crandall has written eloquently about the new culture of scansion and surveillance through which the visual is embedded in digital culture and its surrounds. This is just the tip of the iceberg, on which I hope our community will expand in the coming days. The issue, for me, is not whether the psychoanalytical paradigm remains helpful, but rather, how it might be rewritten by the convergences of medial culture, perhaps more akin to what the French psychoanalyst J-B Pontalis calls the visual along the lines of vision scanned, glanced, looped, morphed and pixellated. Looking forward to the discussion, and see you on Tuesday in Busan. tim From: Youngmin Kim yk4...@gmail.com Date: 2013/10/6 Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion: To: soft_skinned_space empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au I just awoke from Zhuangzi’s Butterfly Dream into the “empyre”an, thanks to Tim and Renate. Out of blissful “panic” since this is my first time to encounter the empyrean, I come to see the world as a globe with my eyes. The eye is in fact the eyeball which looks like a globe. Nietzsche once said that men are “deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images;” and “their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see forms.” I am tempted to open up the issue of rethinking of the eye/gaze in terms of the ontological concept of “medium” before Tim Murrayan “reflecting on the shifting ontologies of film, screen culture, and global media.” During next week at Busan from Oct. 7-12, I hope I am able to observe how BIFF Conference and Forum represent and demonstrate the “convergence of media.” My basic understanding of the eye/gaze dichotomy is from Jacques Lacan who suggests that the eye and the gaze is the split. The function of the eye is to see, while the gaze deceives the eye. His autobiographical story of “Petit-Jean” demonstrates that the gaze is outside in the object when the subject sees with his eyes the thing-object out there. His classical tale of Zeuxis and Parrhasios tells us the issue of “deceiving the eye” (tromper-l'œil), i.e., “A triumph of the gaze over the eye.” In short, the gaze deceives the eye from the invisible side of the light which is truth but in veil. However, Lacan is interested in the “laying down of the gaze,” “dompte-regard” or taming of the gaze. This double gaze of deception/abandonment in the form of moving image (camera eye) can represent the unconscious of the subject by revealing the epistemological potentiality of the unconscious truth in analysis. I would argue that the camera eye becomes a derivative manifestation of Lacanian aesthetics of the gaze, the aesthetics which transforms itself from the images of the hoop nets representing the unconscious to the topology of the klein bottle representing a new way of projection which transgresses the borderlands of the inside/outside region of the uncanny unconsciousness. Your new young empyrean friend, Youngmin Director, Society for the Humanities Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Professor of Comparative Literature and English A. D. White House Cornell University Ithaca, New York. 14853 From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] on behalf of Youngmin Kim [yk4...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 1:19 PM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion:
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Welcome to October, everyone. Renate and I really delighted to be hosting this month's discussion on Convergence: expanding time-based media. We have guests who work widely across the disciplines and from varying perspectives across the globe so are eager to see how things develop. Our first guest will be Youngmin Kim who is one of Korea's leading interdisciplinary scholars and on the organizing of the Busan International Film Festival which, as Renate mentioned, has chosen the concept Convergence for the conference framing the Festival. Since Busan is Asia's most prestigious film festival, it is exciting that it has opened the doors to reflecting on the shifting ontologies of film, screen culture, and global media. I'm particularly keen to hear empyreans' thoughts on the implications of the convergence of media in which the screen(s) is ubiquitous, audiences are mobile if not virtual, and forms that used to be distinct, from film and video to installation, interactive platforms, listservs, animation, and digital sound and image convergence in recombined forms. So one of the questions we'll be asking is how to understand the current moment of convergence. I was at a conference last weekend on comparative media and a very influential film scholar made a passionate claim that cinema shares with literature the access to profundity in a way that media can't. Although I can understand the historical background of such a claim, I found it so curious in an age when profundity has been democratized, stretched, challenged, and mobilized by interactive performance, mobile technologies, and cross-platform exhibition. I'll expound on remarks that I'll be making at Busan in the following week, but my sense is that the very convergence of technologies in the context of global screen cultures challenges and complicates the very universalist claim of profundity upon which my colleague relies. After Youngmin wakes up (6am his time), I'll look forward to his opening thoughts. Welcome to a new month on -empyre-. We're looking forward to an active discussion. Best, Tim Director, Society for the Humanities Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art Professor of Comparative Literature and English A. D. White House Cornell University Ithaca, New York. 14853 From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au [empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au] on behalf of Renate Ferro [r...@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 10:13 AM To: soft_skinned_space Subject: [-empyre-] Welcome to the October Discussion: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
