The Trans:Asia Screen Culture Institute Hosts an Academic Symposium Towards Alchemies Planetary Regeneration: Cinema and Place of Anthropocene

The Trans:Asia Screen Culture Institute (Director Kim Soyoung) hosted an international academic symposium of the year, Towards Alchecmies Planetary Regeneration: Cinema and Place of Anthropocene.

The Trans:Asia Screen Culture Institute periodically organizes an annual international academic symposium and offers a sphere of discourse for scholars from all around the world. The discussion attempted to re-structuring theories of cinema, media, cultural studies related to cognitive ecology, feminism, and historical geography.

In the first part of the symposium, eleven participants in academia, film festival, and media production discussed the theme of “Cinema and Place of Anthropocene.” Director Kim Soyoung, the event host, presented “Post-contact Zone: (En)countering COVID-19,” and Professor Park Je-Chul (Seoul National University) presented “Slow Cinema in the Anthropocene and Its Embodied Non-conscious Experience.” Professor Jung Seung-hoon (K-Arts) brought up the topic of K-Zombie. Also, Lee Dong-yoon (a programmer of Chuncheon SF Film Festival) shared an opinion on “Some Perspectives on Independent SF Films of Korea,” and Lee Byeongwon (a manager of the asiapd company) touched on the topic of VR, AR, and XR.

Director Kim opened the second part of the event with an opening address. And Professor Rob Wilson (University of California Santa Cruz, the United States), Professor Serena Chou (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), and Professor Robert Tally (Texas State University, the United States) presented their research papers. In consideration of the ongoing COVID-19 situation, they had a meeting with the Zoom video conference.

Anyone interested in this year’s symposium can find detailed information on the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/transkarts) and via the institute’s official online community (http://cafe.naver.com/tasciacademy).