Media Ecology: Revisiting TV Garden

The international symposium series The Gift of Nam June Paik, which will be holding its annual 11th meeting this year, has consolidated the vision of the Nam June Paik Art Center, “The House Where Nam June Paik Lives Long,” by researching, sharing and proposing timely and noteworthy topics on the basis of Paik’s thoughts. This 11th symposium Media Ecology: Revisiting TV Garden is designed to re-evaluate Nam June Paik’s ideas and share the critical investigations of and the researches on the alternatives of the recently emerging concept Anthropocene. Thereby we hope to foresee the future direction of media ecology. Nam June Paik believed that Global Groove offers more fundamental criticism of the environmental pollution than trite documentary films on nature. Media is not simply a part of our environment but our existence. Now is the time we should realize that ecology is not an academic metaphor. We should now explore how media can function as technology for life. 

Program
10-10:20am
Registration

10:20-10:30am
Opening address

Session I
10:30-11:00am
Nam June Paik’s Media Ecological Investigation
Dong-Hoo Lee (Incheon National University)

11-11:30am
Media that Are All Around: The Change of the Media Environment from the Whale to YouTube
Hee-Eun Lee (Chosun University)

11:30am–12pm
Nam June Paik’s Alternative Media Ecology
Sooyoung Lee (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art)

12–12:30pm
[Screening] Nam June Paik, Global Groove(1973)

Session II
2-2:30pm
Eco-eco-punk: Nam June Paik’s ecological mediations
Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths)

2:30-3pm
TV Garden: Notes
Soyo Lee (Lifeforms in Culture)

3-3:20pm
Coffee break

3:20-3:50pm
Turn, Disturbance, and Translation: The Possibilities of Urban Political Ecology Viewed through Nam June Paik
Jun Soo Kim (Center for Asian Urban Societies, SNU)

3:50-5:20pm
Roundtable and floor discussion 
 

Admission is free and open to the public. If you wish to pre-register you can do so here.
Symposium conceived by Sooyoung Lee (Curator, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art), Yoonseo Kim (Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center)

Organized and Hosted by Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation