2012, Vol., No.49

Journal of Humanities 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.6

pISSN : 1598-8457 / eISSN : 2508-4550
https://journal.kci.go.kr/inmun

To painters in these days, it has remained as a task to solve the conflict caused by different values of Western society and traditional values shown in ink-and-wash paintings and independent efforts to incarnate this task into social structures and historical backgrounds specifically have been required so to accept it into their works. Asians make ‘leaving nature as it is’ as the root in their creation of pictorial arts, which is to follow the law of nature, rather than artificial things. And they also considered the aim of art as a course towards the completion of character as a noble man. Such vast expressions of outer space are available in oriental paintings by the method to leave a space. It is able to know through Asians’view of nature. That is, the symbol of heaven is the space, while the symbol of human is the part painted by brush and ink. Therefore, in this study, it examines the formative consciousness in traditional oriental paintings dividing into the aspects of spiritual and spatial and, then, interprets the backgrounds of traditional thought and its formative effect of space in oriental paintings in much more logical ways. By this, it examines the space to imply spirit through the merits and the limitations. Furthermore, this study aims at examination of the difference of formativeness between the East and the West about a space so to study the space again as the one referring in the oriental aesthetics.

The main cause for <Sungkyunkwan Scandal>, a drama that deals in the era of King Jeongjo, to create such a stir is just the one that has originated from our demand for intellectuals and politicians serving the public these days. The efforts exerted by the Confucian scholars, King and the politicians, who were all intellectuals at that era, to make the publics’ life more convenient may be one of the main reasons for us to be immersed in this drama. This is containing the publics’ demand that the intellectuals and politicians have to endeavor for stable lives of the ordinary people. It may be said that this is the very power retained by the image contents. There may be dramas in different genres, but as the historical drama like <Sungkyunkwan Scandal> became so popular by taking advantages of Korean Wave, the issue between fact and fiction, i. e., the issue of historical interpretation, is to the fore. In particular,with spread of the Korean Wave, it cannot be denied that the issue of historical interpretation is an important issue from the educational aspects. In addition, this thesis is examining the issue about educational utility of the historical dramas.

The aim of this paper is to criticize cultural-philosophically the change of the human memory and imagination in the new cognitive environment constructed by convergence media. Convergence media are not simple instruments but cognitive conditions of human. Today, through convergence media we can see, listen,remember and imagine. As convergence media are emerging as new cognitive conditions, human cognitive process falls to being understood as structure of media. This understanding is clearly emerged in the Mylifebits project promoted by MS. This project aims at ‘externalization of human memory’, by using convergence media. In this project, human memory is understood as computer file storage system. Computer files are stored in an external device, likewise human memory can be also stored in an external device. Human is biological being, and his memory is apt to be distorted and lost. However, if the memory is stored in external device, it is neither distorted nor lost. Thus the research directors of Mylifebits project call this electronically stored memory ‘Total Recall’. It requires two main premises which human memory is personal and unrelated to the meaning, in order that human memory could become Total Recall. Because we have digital media personally and mechanical memory cannot generate any meaning. However, any human act is neither simple physical work nor mechanical process like response to a stimulus. Even in the lowest level, human act has meaning. Meaning is not personal at all. Thus human memory is also not personal. In other words, human memory is essentially cultural. It is a distortion of original meaning to regard human memory as a mechanical process. Furthermore, memory is not different to imagination, or rather, memory is closely akin to imagination. In this sense, distorting original meaning of memory is linked directly with the distortion of imagination. The externalization of human memory like Mylifebits is originally based on collaboration between human and digital media in order to augment human cognitive ability. Thus, if we want to accomplish this original intention,we must start from the true understanding of that ability.