Jong-Chul Choi

Dr. Jong-Chul Choi is Associate Professor in the Department of International Liberal Arts at the Miyazaki International College, Japan. Choi received his PhD in Art History at the University of Florida in 2012. His recent research deals with contemporary media art and its aesthetic, political, and technological issues. Since settling in Asia in 2013, he has contributed articles to leading art journals and wrote many catalogue essays for public museums.

Choi teaches courses such as Japanese Thoughts and Arts, Topics in International Arts, and the Development of Modern Art and Architecture.

Choi is currently preparing two book manuscripts: Photography’s New Turn in the Post-Photographic Era, and After the Return of the Real: Arts in the Age of Disaster. His recent publications include “Reinventing the Archive in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group,” (Digital Creativity, vol. 30, March 2018), “Photo-graphy, ‘the Shadow in the Cave,’ its Pain and Love: The Ethics of Photography, (Photographies, Vol. 11-1, February 2018), “Park Chan-kyong’s Asian Gothic as ‘The Most Sublime Hysteria’ in Its Return,” (Third Text, vol. 30, Issue 5-6, 2017), and “Entre art et politique / Between Art and Politics,” (Artpress, November 2016). Choi has presented his work internationally at conferences for renowned associations and institutions, including the Korean Society of Art History, the Western Art History Association, Harvard University, Cornell University, and Beijing and Seoul National Universities. He has also guest lectured at the Korean Academy of Philosophy, the Harn Museum of Art, and other museums in Asia.