New media theorists, performance artists, media culture
commentators, and politicians have celebrated life online-the
virtual unknown-as shamanic, Eastern, mysterious, transformative,
and exotic. SHAMANISM + CYBERSPACE shows that this rhetoric is
actually a familiar version of the other, and that imperialism is
at its core. This book combines postcolonial, deconstructionist,
and performance theory to reread new media theory and shamanism
itself, specifically in South Korea. It unravels and reweaves
discourses on originary reproduction, confronting the proliferating
violence in media and nationalism. Perhaps most radically, it
proposes a new theory of "media mourning" to help us see and hear
shamanism colliding with contemporary media art worlds, collapsing
time and space, upending gender and racial categories, and
confounding the boundaries between East and West. Most importantly,
the book introduces a new opening toward instigating the
impossibility of the other in philosophy while critiquing how
shamanism is used to image the other in cyberspace culture. Mina
Cheon (Korean-American), PhD, MFA, is a new media artist, writer,
and educator who divides her time between Baltimore, New York, and
Seoul. She is currently a full-time professor at the Maryland
Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, teaching studio and
liberal arts. SHAMANISM + CYBERSPACE (2009) is her first book,
adapted from her dissertation, The Sh]man in Cyberspace: Dilemmas
of Reproduction (2008), which was completed for her doctoral degree
in Philosophy of Media and Communications at the European Graduate
School (EGS), Switzerland. As an artist, she has shown
internationally, with solo exhibitions at spaces including the
Lance Fung Gallery in New York (2002); Insa Art Space, Arts
Council, Seoul (2005); and C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore
(2008). From installation and performance to video and interactive
media, her artwork deals with issues of media, space, borders, and
conflicts between nations, especially the triangular relationship
between South Korea, North Korea, and the United States. Recently
her work has extended into the realm of looking at other national
conflicts, including those between neighboring Asian nations such
as Korea, Japan, and China, and the plethora of images of hatred
and racism found in popular media and cultures of Asia.
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