포스트시네마, 뉴미디어, 디지털 테크놀로지

Post-cinema, New Media and Digital Technology: Theoretical Context of the Concepts

This paper suggests a theoretically possible way to account for a concept of post-cinema. For the suggestion, we shed light on the meaning of medium especially in the context of the system theory, and define new medium from its perspective. The medium can be explained on the basis of its contingent relation to form. On the ground of this contingency, the transition always occurs from medium to form and visa versa. New medium can be defined as a state in which these transitions are actualized so ceaselessly that the differences between media and forms are not determined, because new media cannot be logically defined as media that have been developed recently, but as media that continue to change and maintain the newness in this way. In terms of this theoretical explanation, the introduction of digital technology allows films to operate as new media. This is because the digital has not so much high viscosity as granularity, and this condition makes the transition between medium and form more dynamic. Film history shows that this dynamic movements from medium to form have taken place, given that the early cinema or the experimental films try to formalize their own media to be observed by the audience. But the digital cinema intensify this movement with the help of the digital technology.