Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity. - Softcover

Chin Jungkown; Common Accounts (Igor Bragado & Miles Gertler)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945150963 ISBN 13: 9781945150968

Publisher: ActarD Inc., 2018

Synopsis

Focused on post-labor, psychopathology, and plasticity of human mind and body, this book introduces insight, critiques, and propositions in the area;self-design, ranging from design and architecture to science, media, history, philosophy, and contemporary art. The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects, but rather extends from carefully crafted individual looks and online identities, to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, data, chemicals, organisms, and genetic codes.Faced with the fourth industrial revolution, this book shed light on the necessity to recognize that manmade, artificial objects are continuously reshaping our daily lives, and thus to rethink the intimate and fundamental relationship between design and what it means to be human.Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, MMCA, organized the Superhumanity Symposium in Korea, consisting of lectures and panel discussions by experts from diverse disciplines.With contributions by Chin Jungkown, Common Accounts (Igor Bragado & Miles Gertler), Arisa Ema, Hong Sungook, Yuk Hui, Kim Jaehee, Catherine Malabou, Hannah Proctor, Erik Rietveld, Mark Wasiuta

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About the Author:

Chin Jungkwon studied Aesthetics at Seoul National University, and received a master s degree in Aesthetics from SNU. He continued studies in Germany, focusing on Wittgenstein s philosophy of language at the Free University of Berlin. As a professor of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Dongyang University and the director of the Institute of Technology and Aesthetics, he leads multidisciplinary studies connecting liberal arts, game, design, and engineering. Publications include Aesthetics Odyssey, Chin Jungkwon s History of Western Arts, Liberal Arts of Image, Chin Junkwon Meets Artists with Secrets, Homo Musicus Chin Jungkwon Loved, Media Theory, and more. Common Accounts (Igor Bragado & Miles Gertler) Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler founded Common Accounts at Princeton University in 2015. Equipped with excellent data plans, the office operates over satellite, server and fibre cable between Seoul, Toronto, and New York. Bragado and Gertler are recognized for their work Closer Each Day: The Architecture of Everyday Death and Going Fluid: The Cosmetic Protocols of Gangnam, exhibited at the Third Istanbul Design Biennial in 2016. Common Accounts is preoccupied with fluid bodies, the infrastructures of K-Pop, parttime domesticity and catchy slogans. Bragado and Gertler have lectured in Beijijng, Toronto, Istanbul, and at Columbia University in New York and recent work has appeared at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, in Uncube Magazine, Cuarto: Architecture Playground, Artsy, and Dezeen. Gertler has mounted two solo shows of visual work with Toronto s Corkin Gallery and is adjunct faculty at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Bragado is a contributing critic to El Pais, is adjunct faculty at the Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and he was awarded the 2017 writing prize by the London based Design History Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: ActarD Inc.
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1945150963
• ISBN 13: 9781945150968
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Nick Axel, Beatrice Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Jihoi Lee, Mark Wigley