som's other worlds@reality

VASAN's ARTIST PARTY is in TIME now.
I couldn't get it in the market. That's because it's a fake one, haha.. anyway, with a big cheer to the artist party!

Moving with Container Art from Harbor to Harbors.

"bu dong zhongwen. Wo shi Tai guo ren!"

MIKRO GALLERI@ZKM

The new ZKM platform "mikrogalleri" allows on line users to present images in distributed places for art and in real at remote locations, at the same time each user creates new art images on line to share.

Oct 21st 2007-Dec 31st, 2008
YOU_ser. Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten
YOU_ser. The Century of the Consumer
ZKM | Media Museum
Opening: Oct 20th 2007

The exhibition YOU_ser. Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten invites the visitor to become an integral part of the art works. For the works shown here constitute themselves only in the act of reception by the viewer and include in their conception his active participation in the process of creation. The ZKM | Media Museum, known world-wide for its unique interactive collection, will be completely re-conceived for this exhibition and supplemented by spectacular new works. It offers a look into a future that will be determined by emancipated consumers.


information source and read more here:: http://mikrogalleri.es

I just try to up lode my images to the platform and it was fun to do so.. imagine how nice if audiences or even myself view all the generated images at the site..
I find that the project is so cool and fun.. and yet controversial for consumer as artist..
here are some of my images which I have up loded to the project.

"FOCUS / THAI CINEMA AND THE NEW FILM &VIDEO ACT

A hidden agenda that deems us morons

The folly and future of Thai cinema under military dictatorship


Earlier this month, I took part in a seminar at Government House to discuss the content of the new Film and Video Act, which has been drafted to replace the existing Film Act of 1930 that miraculously continues to be in place today

away again
arrive Budapest with warm weather and sunshine..in the morning...
evening time...I went to town.. was hard rain..and a bit cold..
I went back to hostel, chat with people there and had a long sleep..
oh.. felt too tired.. but excited..

a long long night..
last night I was so tried.. but still going out with a close friend "Mah".
We went to the place we always end up to be.. the riverside..
we met lot of friends by chance -- they handed me glass of wonderful orange juice mixed with some rum and a sad story of another friend... that made me drank all night .. till now..
swimming in the weird dream..
the sad story keep turning around my head...

a thing from bangkok...

mind mapping (of visitors)

yeah! I get the Hungarian Visa!
I felt so strange with this trip-- I'm happy my agenda had done... but be really sad in some story... my "mind mapping" was so weird...and make me so tried until now...

High Energy Constructs

990 North Hill Street, Suite # 180, in Los Angeles' Chinatown
http://www.highenergyconstructs.com/

Internal Mechanisms

July 28 – September 1, 2007

Semâ Bekirović
Laura Forman
Emilie Halpern
Jason Starr and Justin Hansch
Dhavid Streicher
Sutthirat Supaparinya
Kaari Upson
Louisa Van Leer

curated by Joseph Imhauser

Internal Mechanisms is proud to be the first US exhibit for artist Semâ Bekirovic, and the US premiere of "Taste of Noodles" (2006), a video documentary by Sutthirat Supaparinya.

About the curator: Joseph Imhauser is an artist whose works have been shown in Los Angeles, São Paulo, Orlando, Florida, and throughout Missouri. He received his BFA from CalArts in 2005. Joseph currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Internal Mechanisms is his first curatorial project.

Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm, and by appointment.

see the images from opening day here

review of internal mechanisms on artslant.com! http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/363

A trip to ancient city, Sukhothai with Payap Uni

Besides the beautiful ancient temples and Buddha images in Sukhothai, like a retreat trip for me this time, the trip... gave me a chance to escape from my buzzzy time in Chiang Mai..


Chatting with guest house owner there, a bit in Italian... Stayed in the darkness and quite location... Chilled me out and lying near the pool... looked at thousand stars..Being in the historical park... with lot of ponds and big three..
..thanks for the trip that introduced me to nice and new friends from other Uni.. near by Sukhothai, Narasaun University..

It's really "SUKHO THAI- Dawn of Happiness" city for me ;-)
I'm ready to work again tomorrow!

Aperture, Berlin

another interactive work from berlin.
aperture

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Interactive Art and Architecture

found this from Myspace and it's really cool work using new technology and moving images by post in my space by www.movingbrands.com from UK.
Interactive ART & ARCHITECTURE

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul screenings this week at REDCAT, L.A.

http://www.redcat.org/

In conjunction with the exhibition, UNKNOWN FORCES: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL (on view through June 17), REDCAT will present a selection of the filmmaker's feature and short films. Screening schedule; Wed, June 6, 8pm: Blissfully Yours (2002) Fri, June 8, 8pm: Recent short works: Anthem (2006, 35mm, 5 min.) FAITH (2006, video, 11 min.) Ghost of Asia (2005, video, 8:30 min.) Worldly Desires (2005, video, 40 min.) Luminous People (2007, video, 15:22 min.) Sat, June 9, 8pm: Tropical Malady (2004) Weerasethakul has exhibited and screened his films widely and has been presented numerous awards for his art projects and feature films including the Prix Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival, 2002; the Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival, 2004; Age d'or Prize, Cine de'couvertes, 2004; and Grand Prize, Tokyo Filmex, 2004. In 2005, he received the Silpatorn Award from the Thai Ministry of Culture's Office of Contemporary Arts. For more information and to buy tickets, call our box office at 213-237-2800 or follow this link.

Slow -mo Science
Gasp along with the audience as balloons melt and phones bend.
I'm really enjoy this Japaneses program. Fantastic slow moving images..can't notice from our naked eyes!

Letter from Thai Students in German

I've got this text from "Thai Students in German"
group and feel something... really sad to our freedom..
http://www.geocities.com/siamintellect/writings/pridi.htm

Media Arts Net
the cool site create from one of my media arts professor in Leipzig, prof. Dieter Daniels
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/
textes are in german and english

«Media Art Net 1: An Overview of Media Art» is the first module published in the Net and is accompanied by this volume of text. This module will serve as a foundation for all later modules, and reacts at the same time to an additional paradox of mediation in the media: even those relevant websites that deal with media art still lacked up until now a comprehensive introduction to this subject. We thus see in the exemplary selection of materials and source texts as well the semantic links made by both authors as well as the database an important prerequisite for developing approaches to a curriculum on media art. Free access to these materials is a central aspect of the project. In terms of subject matter, ten introductory essays dedicated both to historical developments as well as interlinking references in terms of content are collected to an «overview.»

mixing things@Fah Thai Magazine

*Fah Thai Magazine is an English-language inflight magazine for Bangkok Airways:::

THROUGH THE CREATIVE WORK OF SIX EMERGING TALENTS, STIRLING SILLIPHANT INVESTIGATES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A YOUNG THAI ARTIST TODAY. PORTRAITS BY CEDRIC ARNOLD

THE ESPRESSO MACHINES at Chiang Mai's 94 Co?ee are running full throttle when Angkrit Ajchariyasophon pulls up to our 9am appointment in a pick-up truck. I don't often associate conceptual artists with pick-ups - or morning meetings, for that matter - but just a few minutes into my conversation with Angkrit, it's obvious why he needs one. Loaded with sculptures that he aims to sell at the Night Bazaar after our meeting, the truck will get Angkrit back to his job managing his family's restaurant in Chiang Rai, 180km away.

That Angkrit's vehicle is as indispensable a tool as any element of his mixed palate says a lot about Thai artists of this generation, for whom balancing busy day-to-day schedules is the norm, for most emerging local artists are also full-time university lecturers or curators, or making money on the side selling T-shirts and stage-dressing events.

This multi-tasking is matched by an eagerness to engage new media. From Angkrit's "role-playing", to the "sound installations" of Sutthirat Supaparinya and 3-D putty paintings of Yuree Kensaku, contemporary Thai art - and its creators - are a mixed bag of forms and ideas. As Bangkok curator Th anavi Chotpradit explains, the new generation "are multi-disciplinary, can experiment and don't stick with one media - they're playful and more flexible".

Non-traditional media has a particularly warm glow to this group, often labelled "New Media" artists, a sub-genre of contemporary art defined by its willingness to incorporate non-traditional media such as video, digital and web.

"Young artists increasingly work on non-object-based art - not just because it's convenient (cheap, easy to carry or send), but it's also something about their mentalities," explains Thanavi.

It could well be a reflection of how vastly di?erent a cultural landscape these artists - who had come of age during the 1990s - grew up in, as compared to their predecessors, the thai modernists and neo-traditionalists.

It is certainly no surprise that such a wired, image-saturated place as Bangkok would produce creative minds fascinated by digital imaging, gadgetry and cyberspace.

However, one also has to look to the creative ferment in smaller cities like Chiang Mai, where a robust New Media department thrives at the city's university.

In the works of the six artists profiled here, one finds an ongoing dialogue with what it means to an artist; specifically, what it means to be a young, thai artist practising in the early 21st century.

Read on to discover their range of fascinating creations.