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This essay is for what I introduce the seminar, titled <Contemporary Art and Media, Truth and ‘Post-truth’>. This seminar is linked to the exhibition Immortality in the Cloud, which was opened to give light on the contemporary art from the media point of view by Ilmin Museum. This essay is about the theme of seminar focussing on ‘Media’ from the point of view of ‘Truth and ‘Post-truth’. Recently the dicourse of media art is so dominant over the art discourses in the art world and academy in Korea. And ‘post-truth’ theory has become to be issued very hotly. However, recent dicourse on media and ‘post-truth’ discourse are also historical. Therefore we could understand these discourses on the extension of Aristotle's Medium theory, G. E. lessing's genre theory, and so on. And the discourse of ‘post-truth’ can be included in the discourse of truth in the traditional art theory. In that respect, contemporary art discourse could be reduced to the horizon of Aristotle's Peri poiētikēs, that is following sentence. “Poetry is more philosophical and important than history”.

art, contemporary, history, immortality in the cloud, media, post-truth, truth