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Visiting Researchers
Young Seok Park
Ph.D. in The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
Lecturer, Department of Film Studies, School of Performing Arts and Media, Chung-Ang University
Article :
“21st century SF films and the posthuman condition -Focused on the artificial relation between mind and body-” Contemporary Film Studies 14.3 (2018).
“Posthuman Ontology of Female-figured Intelligent Machines in Contemporary Sci-fi Films: Issues of Subjectivity and Embodiment from a Posthumanist Perspective” The Journal of Literature and Film 25.1 (2024).
“Intermediality and Media Archaeological Features of Cinematic Quotation: Focused on Manoel de Oliveira’s Mon Cas and Porto da Minha Infância” COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 79 (2019).
“Jean-Luc Godard’s Metahistory: Historical Montage and Digital Image” The Journal of Literature and Film 20.3 (2019).
“Cinematic Figuration on the Historicity of Refugee : Godard’s Dialectical Image and Angelopoulos’s Time-Image” ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES 15.3 (2022).
Book :
『21세기 SF영화의 논점들』, 아모르문디, 2019. (ISBN : 9788992448833)
Research Interest : Representation of History in cinema, Auteur Theory, Post-human studies
Yu Seong Kim
Ph.D. in Harvard Univ / East Asian Languages and Civilization
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University
Article :
“Miniatures as Mediatized Futurity, City in the Air 008” korean association for visual culture 44 (2024).
“Intermedia [intāmedia] in Cold War Japan: Environment, Technology, and the Politics of Intermedia” The Journal of Literature and Film 25.2 (2024).
“The Politics of Displays: Science and Technology Exhibitions in Cold War Japan”. Asian Studies Review, 2024.
Research Interest : History East Asian cinema & media
Min Ho Lee
Ph.D. in The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
Lecturer, Department of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts
Article :
“The necessity of realism : remapping the history of (discourses on) cinema in the post-truth era”, Doctoral dissertation, Chung-Ang University, 2024.
“Critique of Abstraction in Film by Rereading the Linear Perspective : Beyond the Politics of Subjectivity” ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES 15.3 (2022)
“Conditions for Critique in the Film Studies: Beyond Political Modernism”, ASIAN CINEMA STUDIES, 8.1 (2015)
“Rereading of Indexicality as the (Im)possibility for Cinema ：Focusing on Andre Bazin’s Theory” Assoication of Image & Film Studies 24 (2014)
“On the Void and Potential Presented in Holy Motors” Assoication of Image & Film Studies 22 (2013)
Research Interest : Film Theory, Realsim, Critical Theory, Marxist Film
Research Assistants & Staff
Young Bin Kim
Ph.D. Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“The Antinomy of Anthropocene and the Possibility of Ecocinema : Deleuze’s Institution theory and Agency of Subject”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2024.
“the Antinomy of Sexual Difference: the Impossibility of Nature within Culture”, Presentation at Contemporary Psycho Analysis Colloquium, Mar 22 2025
“Performing the impossible utterance : (Welcome to) the Planet of the Orchid” Presentation at 42nd IVSA Conference, Jun 27 2025
“A Study on the Automatism of AI Cinema: Focusing on the Archaeological Consideration of Film Theory,” Research Assistant, 2025 Mid-career Researcher Support Program.
“The Ecological Realism of the Western: André Bazin’s Ecomedia Thought and Meek’s Cutoff (2010)” Film Studies 105 (2025)
Field of Interest : Environmental Media/ Ecocinema, Transnational Cinema, Anthropocene and Media
Dong Yeob Baek
Ph.D. Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“Semiconductor as Fetish, or Material : An Analysis of Infrastructural Disposition of Samsung Electronics’ Semiconductor Manufacturing Process”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2024.
“Documentary Films Constructing Matter of Care: Citizen Science in The Empire of Shame and Minamata Mandala“, Presentation at KASTS 2024 International Conference, Dec 12 2024.
“Situated Visuality in Ecological Moving Images : Disseminated Camera, Activism, and Generated AI” Presentation at 42nd IVSA Conference, Jun 27 2025
“Mobility Infrastructure and the Liberal Governmentality of the Cultural Cold War: An Analysis of the Revision of the Culture Film Arirang Bridge” (1964). Film Studies, 106. (Co-authored)
Field of Interest : Media Archaelogy, Media Infrastructure, Media Geology
Dong Min Seo
Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“On the possibility of new materialist film media theory : microscope, camera, pattern recognition”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2024.
Field of Interest : Documentary, Spatial turn in Humanities, Map and Cartography, Queer Cinema
Eun Ji Song
Ph.D. Candidate, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“Wartime Colonial Korean Cinema and Affect”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2023.
“Aesthetics of Video Piracy and Affective Network in Gwangju Video(s)”
“Affective Network of ‘Gwangju Video(s)’ and the Aesthetics of Video Piracy,” Presentation at the Regular Academic Conference of the Institute for Democracy and Peace, Chosun University, Sep 20, 2024.
“Gwangju Video(s) as Independent Documentary: Aesthetics of Video Piracy and Found Footage Film,” Humanities and Social Sciences Research Professor (Type B), 2024–Present (In Progress).
“The Piracy Network and Bootleg Aesthetics of ‘Gwangju Video(s)’ in the 1980s” Presentation at 42nd IVSA Conference, Jun 27 2025
“How Did ‘For the Open Cinema’(1983) Become Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)?: A Brief Inquiry into the Transitions of Jang Sun-woo” Contemporary Film Studies, 21(2), 7-33. (Co-authored)
Field of Interest : Korean Film History, Media Piracy, Video Activism, Colonial Korean Cinema
Yuna Kim
Ph.D. Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“Structure of Software as media and the generative value of error : critical code studies in film and media studies”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2024.
“Reinventing Film Criticism: The Possibilities of Audiovisual Essays,” Research Assistant, Mid-Career Researcher Program, 2023.
“The Audiovisual Essay as Ideological Critique in the Digital Environment”. Film Studies, 106, 111-137. (First Author)
Field of Interest : Post-Cinema, AI Cinema,Critical Software and Code Studies, Digital Humanities
Han Yeok Jeon
Ph.D. Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“A Study on the Cultural Implications of Film Canons as a Reference for Film Archiving”, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Professor (Type B), 2025–Present (In Progress).
Field of Interest : Film Archive, Canon in Film, Korean Film History, Film and Religion
Han Ah Yun
Ph.D. Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“A Study of Melancholic Intellectual Subjectivity in 1960s Korean Cinema”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2025.
Field of Interest : Korean Film History, Pschoanalysis
Woo Hyuk Shin
Ph.D. Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
“The post-medium characteristics and significance of postwar american avant-garde cinema : focusing on the concept of automatism and Parker Tyler’s critique of Hollywood”, Master’s thesis, Chung-Ang University, 2025.
Field of Interest : History of Experimental Film, Contemporay Moving Image, Post-Medium Envionment
Jina Kim
Master’s Candidate, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
Field of Interest : Animated Documentary, Film Sound Studies
So Yeon Lee
Master’s Candidate, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
Field of Interest : Asian Cinema, Documentary, Film Festival, AI Cinema
Do Kyun Kim
Master’s Student, The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University
Field of Interest : Digital Humanities, Korean Film History, Cognitive Film Theory