Insta-Gaze: Aesthetic representation and contested transformation of Woljeong, South Korea

Oh, Youjeong

doi:10.1080/14616688.2021.1974931

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“…In the context of archaeological monuments and sites, both tourist and expert ways of seeing have been further tied to forms of mechanical apprehension and capture since the inception of photography (Dicks, 2000;Sterling, 2016;Watson and Waterton, 2016). Shaped by a collectivised desire to witness scale and history, the polyvalent and complex tourist gaze (Urry and Larsen, 2011), alongside a supporting apparatus of travelogues, transport, and curation, has been stretched and magnified through the proliferation of social media platforms (Barauah, 2017;Oh, 2022). The expert gaze is similarly polyvalent, informed by disciplinary regimes ranging from archaeology and anthropology to architecture and conservation.…”

Section: Conceptualising the Machinic Gazementioning

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(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze

Arora,

Magee,

Munn

2024

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Built heritage has been both subject and product of a gaze that has been sustained through moments of colonial fixation on ruins and monuments, technocratic examination and representation, and fetishisation by a global tourist industry. We argue that the recent proliferation of machine learning and vision technologies create new scopic regimes for heritage: storing and retrieving existing images from vast digital archives, and further imparting their own distortions upon this gaze. We introduce the term ‘ machinic gaze’ to conceptualise the reconfiguration of heritage representation via artificial intelligence (AI) models. To explore how this gaze reframes heritage, we deploy an image-text-image pipeline that reads, interprets, and resynthesizes images of several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Employing two concepts from media studies— heteroscopia and anamorphosis—we describe the reoriented perspective that machine vision systems introduce. We propose that the machinic gaze highlights the artifice of the human gaze and its underlying assumptions and practices that combine to form established notions of heritage.

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(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze

Arora,

Magee,

Munn

2024

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…Under the state‐directed spatial restructuring for rapid industrialization in the post‐Korean War era, while the mainland was home to manufacturing industry, Jeju was assigned as a site for the tourism industry owing to its ‘remoteness’ and ‘exotic’ natural environment. State‐initiated tourism development led directly to the overhaul of Jeju's land, landscape and environment to host tourism facilities (Oh, 2022). I argue that the process of tourism development functioned to reconstitute Jeju as an extractive periphery.…”

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AGAINST THE COLONIZATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT: The Top‐dong Right to the City Movement in Jeju, South Korea

Oh¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The Top-dong Movement was an extensive residents' resistance mobilization against the Top-dong Public Water Reclamation project in the late 1980s in Jeju, South Korea. Starting as a local female divers' struggle for subsistence, the Top-dong Movement grew into a collective action to reveal the illegalities of the project, demand that profi ts should be fairly shared and assert self-determination. State-led development of Jeju in the post-Korean war period functioned to render the island an extractive periphery during South Korea ' s capitalist modernization. Within that context, the Top-dong reclamation project exemplifi es how urban development projects create colonial conditions in local communities by dispossessing them of land and the means of subsistence, commodifying public resources and extracting profi ts. Jeju islanders reacted by claiming specifi c rights: female divers' collective rights to public water and the means of livelihood against dispossession; local residents' rights to control developmental profi ts against extraction; and islanders' rights to participate in decision-making processes against exclusion. Bridging Lefebvre ' s two conceptscolonization and the right to the city, this article argues that the historically situated, place-based right to the city movement revealed the colonization involved in urban development and performed practices of decolonization.

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“…Tourists' aesthetic experiences could have a transformative effect on a destination by rendering a place worthy of aesthetic devaluation/appreciation through either negative or positive aesthetic representations. Oh (2022) showcases how tourist experiences that are transmitted through Instagram enable an ordinary place to emerge as a tourist destination, resulting in its objectification and commodification.…”

Section: Aesthetics In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A related issue is that beauty may be a double-edged sword (Forsey & Aagaard-Mogensen, 2019;Oh, 2022;Tartari, Pedrini & Sacco, 2022) when it comes to destination management: tourists may appreciate the ugly and the ordinary while devaluing the beautiful. An example of the former is the complex portrayal of graffiti in urban tourism.…”

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Beyond beauty: Ugly and borderline tourism aesthetic experiences

Nasiri,

Kirillova,

Wassler

2023

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Tourism and aesthetic experiences are intertwined. This study explores the essence of negative and borderline aesthetic experiences in the context of tourism. To achieve this, Husserl's descriptive phenomenology and detailed descriptions of aesthetic experiences from 28 first-time tourists in Hong Kong are employed. Findings identify and define two types of borderline aesthetic experiences, namely the "beaugly" and the "ugbeaful," as well as the experience of ugliness itself. Borderline experiences involve intricate interplays of pleasure and displeasure, challenging the traditional notion of aesthetics. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate that ugliness does not necessarily equate to a wholly negative experience. This study thus contributes to the expansion of knowledge regarding aesthetic experiences in tourism and offers valuable insights for destination experience design.

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Insta-Gaze: Aesthetic representation and contested transformation of Woljeong, South Korea

Cited by 20 publications

References 31 publications

(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze

(Re)framing built heritage through the machinic gaze

AGAINST THE COLONIZATION OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT: The Top‐dong Right to the City Movement in Jeju, South Korea

Beyond beauty: Ugly and borderline tourism aesthetic experiences

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