ABOUT / RESEARCH JOURNEY
About
Yongwook Lee’s research began with cyberliterature and digital storytelling in the 1990s and has continued to examine how technology reshapes human sensation, narrative, judgment, and relation.
It approaches technology not as an external tool but as an environment of life, and the human not as an isolated subject but as a relational being constituted with nonhuman actors. Artificial Nature, the Age of Technological Generation, friction and resonance, WE, and Eco-Digital mark the present of this continuing inquiry.
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Research Journey
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Current Research
Media Aesthetics in the Age of Technological Generation
How generative technologies alter the conditions of memory, sensation, narrative, and value.
Ontology of Artificial Nature
The ontological structure through which technological realities operate as environments of human experience.
Eco-Digital
The material and immaterial costs of technological environments and an ecological ethics of coexistence.
Humanities Engineering
Methods for distinguishing technological suggestions from researchers’ judgment in AI-assisted humanities research.
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Research Questions
- How do humans change when technology becomes an environment rather than a tool?
- How do human and nonhuman actors form relational subjects?
- How do aesthetics, narrative, memory, and judgment change after generative AI?
- Can technological environments be ecologically redesigned?