• 제목/요약/키워드: Pop Art

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VIDEO GAME CULTURE AND INTERACTIVITY -An exploration of digital interactive media through a metaphorical approach to video game culture-

  • 우탁
    • 한국게임학회지
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    • 제6권1호
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    • pp.70-72
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    • 2009
  • This research is focused on defining interaction within the context of digital media and creating a multi cultural definition of interactivity. The concept of multi digital culture and a definition of interaction in digital media have often been overlooked by other researchers and this has caused the emergence of many different notions on this issue. As a result of these varied notions of the concept, public confusion has arisen regarding interactivity. The main purpose of this research is to find a suitable multi definition of interaction through examining local digital culture. In order to analogise multi digital culture, the video game culture is employed as a metaphor to interpret local digital culture. The reason for this is that a specific national culture can be easily identified within the video game culture. Four countries, South Korea, Japan, the U.S. and the UK have been chosen for comparison purposes. Case study, questionnaire and publicly accessible video game related data, such as, video game charts, are used for formalising and analysing unique local digital culture. The Heyri POP UP IMAGE Festival, S. Korea, was also used as a pilot study, with some of the above research methods being employed to analyse South Korean digital culture. In relation to western cases, interview and questionnaire were primarily used. The data from the case countries was carefully compared and analysed and then it became the basis of a theory of multi definition of interaction in digital media. The case study employed the cultural metaphor for this research and in addition video game culture related questionnaires and interviews with experts of interactive art genre, regarding new notions of digital interaction were utilised. The survey was conducted simultaneously in the four different cultural case nations of this research. Twenty respondents from each case nation participated in the survey, in order to investigate firstly, the existence of 'local digital culture' and secondly, the trends and phenomena of 'digital culture' in these four different 'local digital cultural areas'. In terms of interviews with experts of the interactive art genre, these were focused on obtaining their understanding of contemporary digital culture in their research. Using gathered data from the observation of local digital culture, the basic theory of interaction and the terminology of interaction are reformed. Localised definitions of interaction on digital media, control based interaction and communication based interaction are presented, in order to identify a 'locality' in terms of various contemporary digital cultures. As a result of analysing digital culture, new definitions of 'multi definition of digital interaction' were formulated. As mentioned above, 'control' and 'communication' based interaction were initiated, based on 'user to media' relationships. Based on the degree of physical interaction, 'liminal' and 'transitive' interactions were initiated. Less physical digital interaction is named 'liminal' interaction and more physical digital interaction is named' transitive' interaction. These new definitions of interaction were applied to the real world examples of uses of digital interaction, such as, digital interactive installation artworks and video games. The newly defined meaning of digital interaction can be applied to analysing digital interactive installation artworks and possibly indicate their future development and the prospects of future electronic games. Three leading digital interactive artists were selected for this analysis and their works were studied in terms of the implementation of 'multi definition of digital interaction'. Throughout these processes, the meaning of 'communication' in digital interactive media was emphasised. Many of the selected artists' digital installations were focused on 'communication' or 'interaction between each user through digital media', rather than the concept of 'control' in digital interaction, otherwise termed, 'communication with digital media'. In their artworks, interaction between each audience was digitally engaged within the physical interactive environment which was created by the digital media. Both the audience's action and all the reaction throughout the interaction between the audiences, triggered the digital media' s reaction. This audience-audience-media interaction is the key to understanding the concept of 'communication' in physical digital media and it is the main interactive concept upon which the selected digital interactive installation artists for this research and many other artists from similar fields, are concentrating their efforts. In the case of the video game, a similar trend was noticed to that of digital interactive installations. Based on this research's 'multi definition of digital interaction', the video game has evolved from the early stage of being conventional game, which was focused on control based interaction, to the on-line game which was focused on communication based interaction, to physical interactive games, such as, Nintendo Wii, which are focused on more physical interaction and finally, the ubiquitous interactive game, which is mainly concentrated on the concept of 'communication' in physical digital interaction. It is possible that this evolution of the video game concept of interaction is comparable to the progress of digital interactive artworks. This view is based on the fact that both genres show evidence that they are developing in the direction of the concept of 'communication', in terms of physical digital interaction. The important emphasis of this research's results is 'locality' and 'communication' in physical digital interaction. The existence of different digital culture trends, which were assessed by the 'multi definition of digital interaction', can explain the concept of 'locality' in digital interaction. This meaning of 'locality' may assist in understanding contemporary digital culture and can reduce possible misunderstanding as regards 'local' digital culture. In the application of the concept of digital interaction to the field of either artworks or video games, it is possible to form the opinion that an innovative concept of physical digital interaction is 'communication' within this context. This concept and its applications can improve the potential of both digital interactive culture and technology.

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대중문화에 재현된 동아시아 자본주의 사회의 담론 : 슈퍼히어로 애니메이션 <타이거 앤 버니>를 중심으로 (The Discourse of Capitalist Society on East Asian Pop Culture: A TV Series of Superhero Animation )

  • 우지운;노광우;권재웅
    • 만화애니메이션 연구
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    • 통권37호
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    • pp.45-82
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    • 2014
  • 서구의 슈퍼히어로 장르는 캐릭터들의 탄생과 성장을 다루는 과정에서 정치, 경제, 사회 환경과 함께 각종 기호체계와 타 예술 장르들을 외적으로 흡수하고, 기존의 작품들을 패러디(parody) 등의 여러 형식으로 받아들였다. 본 논문에서는 슈퍼히어로 장르의 이와 같은 발전과정을 인식의 토대로 하여, 미국적 정신의 구현으로 여겨지던 이 장르가 어떻게 동아시아에서 입체적으로 활용되고 다양하게 재구성되었는지, 일본 선라이즈(Sunrise)사의 TV 애니메이션 시리즈 <타이거 앤 버니>(Tiger & Bunny,2011)를 통해 사례 분석하였다. <타이거 앤 버니>는 상호텍스트성에 기반을 둔 패러디적 유형과 특징들을 보이고 있으며, 내면 정서와 가치관의 동양적 재현에 더해, 자본주의 사회의 회사 중심적인 현대인들의 특징을 차용하여 적극적으로 사회의 외적인 부분을 반영하였다. 서구 히어로물과의 유사성과 차이점 비교를 통해 제시되는 부분은 크게 두 가지로 정리된다. 하나는 서구적 자본주의 사회에 대한 부정적 풍자이고, 다른 하나는 동양적 가족주의 가치관에 대한 긍정적 강조이다. 개인주의와 성과 위주의 평가가 만연한 서구 자본주의 사회에 대한 풍자는 히어로들의 TV 활동 과정에서 이루어진다. 이는 자본과 미디어에 수동적으로 종속된 현대 인간과 공공적 목표조차도 이윤의 도구로 이용하는 자본주의 시스템에 대한 은유적 비판이다. <타이거 앤 버니>의 설정과 내러티브에서 강조되는 덕목은 개인과 사회에 대한 동아시아적 가치관인데, 이는 국가와 사회의 구성원들을 가족적 정서로 연결시켜 공동체의 성공을 위해 노력하는 협조적 관계를 말한다. 타이거는 각자 사적인 목적에 충실하여 대의명분 없이 경쟁만 하던 히어로 집단에 정신적 지주 역할을 수행하고, 버니와 동료들은 타이거의 인간적인 가족주의적 커뮤니케이션 방식에 점차 감화된다. <타이거 앤 버니>는 이 과정을 통해서 현대사회의 사회병리를 해결할 수 있는 방안은 세계시민으로서 이러한 공동체 중심적, 자기희생적 정서를 갖추는 것임을 강조한다.