I. Side
Ilgın Side Soysal, master of fine arts graduate and has been working in the education sector as a media supervisor for the last 5 years along with freelance academic conductions (proofreading, literature reviewing, semi-structured interview questions creating for education departments). Her thesis investigated Japanese cute aesthetics in popular culture, contemporary art and in daily life. From Manga to Anime, the importance of visual aesthetics in different traditional and digital mediums is emergent since it is a cultural but also transcultural phenomenon emerged from Japanese Society and spreaded to other countries.
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As an experienced educator, I involved in preparing and executing “Reality Baby Care” project. It is a program that prepares for parenthood by providing real-life experience. I developed 7 weeks Reality Baby Care program to fully cover all necessary experience for parenthood. Reality babies can be programmed to any difficulty level to any time and date. This way we let young people take care of the babies in their homes or outside with friends as well as in classroom activities. The introduction, lesson plan, and the final report along with pictures are included in the document.
culture. Aside from being a dominant aesthetic of mass culture, the cute also became a form
of expression with increasing virtual and visual communication. Oscillating between physical
world of commodity culture and digitalized media culture, cute’s visual, cultural and
economic meanings are expanded. The specific form of cute (and inevitable weird) culture
has paved its way to the top of the world economy: Japanese Kawaii Culture. The
proliferation of Kawaii aesthetic brought about revelations in art, fashion, and design even in
everyday life practices. Obsession with Kawaii culture opens the door to new distorted
visualities that create paradoxes between mundane reality of everyday life and surreal fantasy
life.
The focus of this paper is the exploration of the Japanese cute (and the weird) aesthetics
impact and its conceptual methodology in the popular visual culture and the contemporary art
scene. As a visual way of distorting everyday life, glitch aesthetics is experimented and used
by mostly video artists. In the complementary art work; experimental glitch and multilayered
video effects are used for the artistic expression and exploration of ‘distorting everyday life’
regarding ‘Japanese cute’s conceptual methodology; intensifications, hybrid visualization and
complicated imagery.
This article briefly delves into the issue of the role of social media (aka, cyber space) on the formations of economic and cultural developments of nations. First, a brief account of a socio-economic background of South Korea will be given to relate to its future survival in global economy. Then, the role of music and film sectors in the social media as a popular form of entertainment industry will be evaluated especially in terms of their function to provide economic benefits and promote Korean culture.
Key words: Korean wave, culture industry, popular culture, entertainment industry, social media, globalization.
Dissertation by I. Side
popular culture. Aside from being a dominant aesthetic of mass culture, the cute also
became a form of expression with increasing virtual and visual communication.
Oscillating between physical world of commodity culture and virtual media culture;
cute’s visual, cultural and economic meanings are expanded. The specific form of
cute (and inevitably weird) culture has paved its way to the top of the world
economy: J apanese Kawaii Culture . The proliferation of Kawaii aesthetic brought
about revelations in art, fashion, and design even in the everyday life practices.
Obsession with Kawaii culture opens the door to new distorted visualities that create
paradoxes between mundane reality of everyday life and surreal fantasy life.
The focus of this paper is the exploration of the Japanese cute (and the weird)
aesthetics impact and its conceptual methodology in the popular visual culture and
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the contemporary art scene. As a visual way of distorting everyday life, glitch
aesthetics are experimented and used by mostly video artists. In the complementary
art work; experimental glitch and multilayered video effects are used for the artistic
expression and exploration of ‘distorting everyday life’ regarding Japanese cute’s
conceptual methodology; intensification, hybrid visualization and complicated
imagery.
Key Words: Kawaii, Cute, Aestheticization, Everyday Life, Japanese Cute, Hybrid
Aesthetics, Visual Distortion.
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As an experienced educator, I involved in preparing and executing “Reality Baby Care” project. It is a program that prepares for parenthood by providing real-life experience. I developed 7 weeks Reality Baby Care program to fully cover all necessary experience for parenthood. Reality babies can be programmed to any difficulty level to any time and date. This way we let young people take care of the babies in their homes or outside with friends as well as in classroom activities. The introduction, lesson plan, and the final report along with pictures are included in the document.
culture. Aside from being a dominant aesthetic of mass culture, the cute also became a form
of expression with increasing virtual and visual communication. Oscillating between physical
world of commodity culture and digitalized media culture, cute’s visual, cultural and
economic meanings are expanded. The specific form of cute (and inevitable weird) culture
has paved its way to the top of the world economy: Japanese Kawaii Culture. The
proliferation of Kawaii aesthetic brought about revelations in art, fashion, and design even in
everyday life practices. Obsession with Kawaii culture opens the door to new distorted
visualities that create paradoxes between mundane reality of everyday life and surreal fantasy
life.
The focus of this paper is the exploration of the Japanese cute (and the weird) aesthetics
impact and its conceptual methodology in the popular visual culture and the contemporary art
scene. As a visual way of distorting everyday life, glitch aesthetics is experimented and used
by mostly video artists. In the complementary art work; experimental glitch and multilayered
video effects are used for the artistic expression and exploration of ‘distorting everyday life’
regarding ‘Japanese cute’s conceptual methodology; intensifications, hybrid visualization and
complicated imagery.
This article briefly delves into the issue of the role of social media (aka, cyber space) on the formations of economic and cultural developments of nations. First, a brief account of a socio-economic background of South Korea will be given to relate to its future survival in global economy. Then, the role of music and film sectors in the social media as a popular form of entertainment industry will be evaluated especially in terms of their function to provide economic benefits and promote Korean culture.
Key words: Korean wave, culture industry, popular culture, entertainment industry, social media, globalization.
popular culture. Aside from being a dominant aesthetic of mass culture, the cute also
became a form of expression with increasing virtual and visual communication.
Oscillating between physical world of commodity culture and virtual media culture;
cute’s visual, cultural and economic meanings are expanded. The specific form of
cute (and inevitably weird) culture has paved its way to the top of the world
economy: J apanese Kawaii Culture . The proliferation of Kawaii aesthetic brought
about revelations in art, fashion, and design even in the everyday life practices.
Obsession with Kawaii culture opens the door to new distorted visualities that create
paradoxes between mundane reality of everyday life and surreal fantasy life.
The focus of this paper is the exploration of the Japanese cute (and the weird)
aesthetics impact and its conceptual methodology in the popular visual culture and
iii
the contemporary art scene. As a visual way of distorting everyday life, glitch
aesthetics are experimented and used by mostly video artists. In the complementary
art work; experimental glitch and multilayered video effects are used for the artistic
expression and exploration of ‘distorting everyday life’ regarding Japanese cute’s
conceptual methodology; intensification, hybrid visualization and complicated
imagery.
Key Words: Kawaii, Cute, Aestheticization, Everyday Life, Japanese Cute, Hybrid
Aesthetics, Visual Distortion.