한국 미디어 아트의 어떤 태동 - 서울미디어 연구회 출현 및 한국영상학회의 형성과 초기 활동 = A Non-Trivial Beginning of Korean Media Arts - The Emergence of Seoul Media Study Group and the Early Activities of Korean Society of Image Arts and Media 1995-2005

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper concerns the activity of the Seoul Media Research Group (SMRG), which lasted from November of 1995 to 1998 and the Korean Society of Image Arts & Media (KOSIAM), which was in existence from1998 to 2005.  The resources informing this writing are the selective written records on the activities of SMRG and KOSIAM by Cheol-Woong Sim, the president of SMRG and KOSIAM (2000-2004). SMRG consisted of artists, professors, instructors and professionals in various areas of media arts in Korea at that time. They gathered regularly for discussions and exchanged their perspectives on the aspects of media arts, visual culture and the media industry which had emerged as new futuristic phenomena. Several years later the activities of SMRG moved to KOSIAM after members realized the need to form an organization to deal with many drastic changes, the expansions of areas of media arts, and critical perspectives and discourse on visual arts, especially in relation to new media art areas. The early activities of KOSIAM included research that started in SMRG, focusing on discourse, aesthetic value and the phenomenon of new media technologies that appeared to influence heavily the formation of media and visual arts. This writing was facilitated given the vast, varied, and precious rare records of Cheol-Woong Sim kept during those periods, written in his personal calendar notes, paper handouts, in KOSIAM journals and in an exhibition catalogue at that time. The purpose of this writing is to review the accomplishments of SMRG and the early activities of KOSIAM, which presented important perspectives on and provided critics of the new media arts of the time. These critical views and the related discourse are applicable to the phenomenon of media arts in their new and current form. I hope this work becomes meaningful text capable of generating new viewpoints on the current issues of media arts.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

본 논문은 1995년 11월 결성된 서울미디어 연구회 모임 기록과 연구 내용 등의 활동과, 서울미디어 연구회를 기반으로 1998년 창립된 한국영상학회의 초기 활동 기록과 발간물에서 발췌한 주요 내용을 고찰한 글이다. 서울미디어 연구회는 당시 미디어 매체를 다양한 작업으로 활용한 작가들과 연구자, 전문가 등으로 구성된 그룹으로서 정규적으로 모여 서로의 작품을 발표하고, 우리나라 미술계 및 미디어 시각문화 산업계에서 발돋움하기 시작한 미디어 아트 영역에 대한 다각적인 시각을 교류하였던 모임이다. 이 모임은 몇 해 후에는 한국영상학회의 창립으로 이어지게 된다. 우리나라 미디어 아트와 시각문화예술 전반에 걸친 급격한 변화와 확장에 요구되는 시각미술 담론과 비평적 시각에 대한 보다 깊은 연구와 논의의 장의 설립이 절심함을 인지하였기 때문이다. 초기 한국영상학회의 활동은 서울미디어 연구회에서 제기되었던 미디어 아트 담론과 기술적인 확장에 따른 형식과 변화 및 관련된 미적 가치 등에 대한 연구를 추진하고, 당시 활발한 미디어 아트 작가들의 작품 전시를 기획하는 일로 이루어지게 된다. 본 글은 서울미디어 연구회 회장직을 수행하고 2,3대 한국영상학회 회장이었던 심철웅의 기록물과 소장 서류 및 발간물 등에서 발췌한 사실들을 모아 정리한 것으로서, 20여 년 전 우리나라 미디어 아트 역사의 한 활동들을 조망하여, 오늘날 급진적으로 더욱 확장되고 있는 뉴미디어 아트의 제반 담론과 작품들의 현상들을 보다 새로운 관점과 미래에 대한 현안으로 고찰할 수 있기를 바라는 목적을 가진 논문이다.

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