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New Art Activism

뉴아트행동주의: 포스트미디어, 횡단하는 문화실천

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Glimpsing new cultural practices from post-media era creators who continue the avant-garde tradition

New Art Activism focuses on the emerging critical trends in new artistic creation and media expression in contemporary Korean society. It defines various practices such as artistic action, cultural intervention, activism, alternative media, electronic resistance, and DIY culture —shown by domestic creators who infiltrate systemic power— as ‘new art activism,’ and examines the intellectual genealogy of new cultural practices growing alongside technology. Through the journey of those who create their own life and sovereign spaces while working in contemporary art, design, culture, and media fields, we can glimpse the new landscape of our cultural practices.

Lee Kwang-suk

He has been engaged in research, criticism, and writing with a critical focus on the intersections of technology, society, and ecology. He is a Professor in the Graduate School of IT Policy at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, specializing in Digital Culture Policy. Since 2020, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Culture/Science, a journal of cultural theory. His main research interests include technology and cultural studies, the commons, platforms, techno-ecological politics, and AI-driven automation societies. His major works include The Society of Digital Gluttony, Post-Digital, Phygital Commons, The Betrayal of the Digital, Aesthetics of the Data Society, Critique of the Data Society, and Digital Barbarism. He also co-edited and co-authored AI, Platforms, and the Future of Labor, Crafting with Things, Impure Technologies, and Branches of Contemporary Philosophy of Technology and Media*.