Logic and Ethics of Art and Culture in the Age of Globalization

本项目包括会议、讲座和相关文献资料收集活动。在过去的4年里，我们为这个项目开了12次会议，总共做了14次演讲。由于我们项目的研究人员来自不同的主要领域（美学、艺术研究、音乐学、文化人类学、社会学等），我们每个人都有很好的机会分析全球化下各种文化现象的总体逻辑，并讨论和制定情境的伦理问题。邀请东欧国家（斯洛文尼亚）和亚洲国家（韩国）的客座研究员，加上讲座和合作研究，使我们有可能重新调整对国际趋势的态度。这个项目最富有成效的成果是承认全球化的进程，伴随着各种新的问题（例如与第三世界的关系），反而激活了地方认同的自我意识，全球化的媒体在社会中可以改变自己的角色，有时甚至是彻底改变。对全球化问题的审视最终使我们重新考虑艺术的逻辑，这在以前被认为是理所当然的：为了更好地理解当前关于美和艺术的文化辩论，我们发现有必要从根本上重新阐述艺术的目的或意义，以及与之相关的道德问题。这种认可本身可以被视为我们项目的另一项成就。从这些经验教训中，每个研究者都成功地为自己的领域带来了新的视角，正如项目的最终报告所示。

This project consists of meetings, lectures and gathering activity of relevant literature materials. Last 4 years we had 12 meetings for the project, and held 14 presentations in total. Since the investigators of our project had been from different main fields (aesthetics, art studies, musicology, cultural anthropology, sociology and so on), each of us could have a good opportunity to analyze the overall logic, which conditions various cultural phenomena under globalization, and we could discuss and formulate ethical problems of the situation. Invitation of guest researchers from east European country (Slovenia) and from Asian country (Korea), coupled with lectures and collaborating research, made it possible to relocate our attitude toward international tendencies.The most fruitful achievement of this project is an acknowledgement that the process of globalization, which is accompanied with new sorts of problems (such as relationships to the Third World), rather vitalizes the self-consciousness of local identity and that globalizing media in the society can change their own role, sometimes even drastically.Examination of the problems of globalization finally led us to reconsider the logic of art, which previously had been taken for granted : For better understanding of current cultural debate of beauty and art, we found it necessary to reformulate the aim or the significance of art, and of moral issues relating to it quite radically. This acknowledgement itself can be regarded as another achievement of our project. Learned from these lessons, each investigator successfully brought a new perspective for his/her own field, as the final report of the project shows.