He graduated from the Department of Geography at Seoul National University and obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in photography and visual studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. He has taught photography aesthetics, the relationship between photography and contemporary art, visual aesthetics, media aesthetics, and art theory at Joongbu University, Yonsei University, and Hongik University. He currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Aesthetics at the College of Humanities, Seoul National University. His authored works include Roland Barthes, The Bright Room (2018) and The Two Faces of Documentary Photography (co-authored, 2012). His articles include “Roland Barthes’s ‘It-was-there-ness,’ Surprise, Madness” (2017), “Reconsidering Roland Barthes’s Reception Theory of Photography” (2016), “Vilém Flusser’s Media Aesthetics: Technical Images and Photography” (2015), “Vilém Flusser’s Reception Theory of Photography and Technical Images” (2015), and “Roland Barthes’s Dark Room: The Specificity of Photography” (2010).
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Sangwoo Park
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After graduating from the Department of Visual Information Design at Kyungpook National University, he majored in typography at the Department of Visual Communication (now Institute Digital Communication Environments, IDCE) of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK FHNW) in Basel, Switzerland. He received his master’s degree from the same school and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in the United States. He began teaching as a research assistant at the Basel University of …
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Lee Bong-won
He studied visual design at Hongik University and Dong-A Graduate School, and received his master’s degree in Design Strategy and Innovation from Brunel University, UK. He worked at the UI Lab of Samsung Electronics Design Management Center and is currently in charge of developing future scenarios based on the convergence of industries and technologies and designing service systems to realize them. -
Edo Smitshuijzen
정부와 기업 클라이언트를 대상으로 다수의 중요한 대규모 아이덴티티 및 사이니지 프로젝트에서 디자인 책임자로 일했다. 그의 디자인 작업은 네덜란드 그래픽 디자인의 독특한 위상 정립에 일조한 바 있다. 저자가 개발한 기능별 종합 사이니지 패널 시스템은 디자인 클래식으로 자리 잡았고 지난 23년간 전 세계 시장에서 판매되었다. -
Cody Choi
Cody Choi(b.1961), who has consistently been active as a visual artist and cultural theorist since the 1980s, explores the cultural identity and relationship of authority within contemporary society. Choi touches upon topics of cultural maldigestion, third-culture created by the clash of different cultures, the beauty of such hybridism, and simultaneously occurring new social phenomena—all of which Choi experienced as a foreigner in the US. Choi gained his stature as a world-renowned artist … -
Im Ji-hwan
A licensed architect in South Korea, serving as an advisory partner at BOUNDLESS (경계없는 작업실) and the CEO of ZERO TO N. After graduating from the Department of Architecture at Seoul National University, he gained practical experience at Hanul Architects and later founded Boundless Studio. At Boundless Studio, he recognized the necessity of integrated value across space development, planning, design, and construction. This insight led to the establishment of Zero to N, a comprehensive construction … -
Yang Seong-hee
Yang Seonghee graduated from Ewha Womans University’s Department of Chinese Language and Literature and studied at Beijing Normal University. She is currently working as a professional translator. The books she has translated include: Learning to Love, Reading the City, Living the World, Learning Flexibility from Lao Tzu, Don’t Make Enemies Even if They Are Not on Your Side, The Art of Choosing at a Decisive Moment, Chaegeundam 1, 2, Mencius’s Management, Wasin Consulting 1, 5, Qinghai-Tibet … -
Jeong Ha-rin
A typeface designer and graphic designer who studied Graphic Design at Yeungnam University and Yale University. From 2014 to 2017, he worked as a type researcher and designer at Ahn Graphics’ Typography Institute, where he contributed to the creation of AG Choijeongho Typeface and AG Superblack Gothic. During the same period, he taught typeface design at the PaTI (Paju Typography Institute). -
Yoo Jung-sook
She graduated from Seoul Women’s University with a BFA in Visual Design and received her MFA in Typography from the same graduate school. After studying at Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany, she earned her Ph.D. in communication design at Bergische Universität Wuppertal and served as a research professor in the Department of Visual Design at Seoul Women’s University. Currently, she lectures at various universities and serves as a mid-career research officer of the National Research … -
Ko Il-hong
She graduated from the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University and received her MA and PhD in archaeology from the University of Sheffield, UK. She has taught at Seoul National University, KyungHee University, Soongsil University, and Chungnam National University, and was a research professor at the HK Research Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University, and is currently a senior researcher at the Seoul National University Asia Center. She is the … -
Muroga Kiyonori
He is the former editor-in-chief of Japan’s renowned design magazine Idea . Currently, he works as an editor, writer, and curator specializing in graphic design and typography. -
Choi Min-young
Graduated from the department of industrial design at KAIST, earned a master’s degree in industrial design from the same institution, and completed the doctoral coursework there. With practical experience in product design and interaction design, served as a senior designer at Daewoo Motors and as the head of the research institute at Decos Interactive. Currently, a professor specializing in Interaction Product Design in the Department of Industrial Design at Sungshin Women’s … -
Leonard Koren
Leonard Koren was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles. While a teenager he designed and built a full-scale Japanese tea house out of scavenged materials. While an undergraduate student at UCLA, Koren was awarded a fellowship to pursue experiments in photographic process. He also worked as an exhibition installer at the university’s fine arts and ethnographic museums. In 1969 Koren quit school and co-founded the Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, a trompe l’oeil mural painting group that …