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NOON, the annual journal of visual culture and contemporary art published by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, has released its sixth volume. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation in order to produce intellectual discourse that which combines esthetics and humanities has annually published the NOON journal since the year 2009. NOON serves as the medium to which discourse on visual culture and contemporary art can translate and project forward into future messages and value.
Apart from the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition, social and culture issues of our time and subjects that require detailed discussion are featured as special topics through which great scholars and activists adverted to as the controversial point. The results of such discussion have been published in the following order: the first volume ‘Violence of the Spectacle’, the second volume ‘Monumental & Unmonumental’, the third volume ‘Rethinking Truth, Information and Visual Art’, the fourth volume ‘The Power of Failure’, and the fifth volume ‘Society & Social’. Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek and many other international scholars have contributed their insightful diagnosis and analysis to the NOON series.
The sixth volume of NOON which has been published under the title of ‘Post-online’ has compiled the perspectives and interpretations by specialists in various fields to reflect upon the sociocultural phenomenon and flow of the emergence of communication technology – the online space. This edition of NOON is comprised of the publisher’s remarks by Yangwoo Park, the President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation; the editor’s note by Dong-Jin Seo, the Chief Editor; six essays on the main subject; a special questionnaire on digital media; the review of Gwangju Biennale 2016 by Maria Lind, the artistic director.
Yangwoo Park, the President of Gwangju Biennale Foundation, explained through the opening remarks that the online space which “numerous phenomena and hidden aspects of the world are intertwined” is a “space of uncertainties without a boundary between generations, cultures or regions, in which knowledge and information are provided simultaneously and immediately through different channels.” It is also present and emerges in the theme of this year’s Gwangju Biennale 2016 as the approach and process of “investigation the imaginative, virtual world – the unknown world that does not exist or is now seen” is analogous.
Six essays under the subject of “post-online” has been explored by Mark Fisher, lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; Kwang-Suk Lee, professor of IT Convergence Policy at Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Gabriele Pedulla, professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Rome 3; Wonhwa Yoon, researcher of visual cultures; Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, writer; Sumi Kang, professor of Art Theory at Dongduk Women’s University Seoul. Additionally, Bartomeu Mari, Director of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Berhnard Serexhe, Chief Curator at ZKM; and many international professionals participated in the ‘Questionaire on Digital Media as an Aesthtical-Ethical Dispositif’.
NOON is available for purchase in both Korean and English version at the price of 15,000 KRW. It can be purchased online at the Gwangju Biennale Shopping Mall site ( http://mall.gwangjubiennale.org) or contact Gwangju Biennale PR & Marketing Department (062-608-4225).
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