[spectre] Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2005

Thu Feb 10 19:51:59 CET 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Third Annual THAILAND NEW MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL (MAF05)

      Thailand New Media Arts Festival: “Intimacy::Digital Skin”

      First Event: 25-28 February, 2005
      (Major Event: 24-28 June, 2005)

    * Introduction
    * Concept
    * The Festival as an ideal stage for cultural exchange    
    * Exhibition space
    * Cultural Exchange
    * Program
    * Artist listing
    * Online references

Introduction

Thailand New Media Arts Festival is committed to the exchange, innovation and celebration of ideas in the merger of art and 
technology.  "The increasing usage of communication technology in Thailand combined with the unique Thai lifestyle and culture 
is an excellent environment for exciting Media Art to emerge and fertilize the global art scene,” says Francis Wittenberger, 
Festival Founder and Artistic Director. The artists will demonstrate the use of emerging technologies to produce net art, software 
art, digital film and interactive art installations--showcasing a variety of international works that may be considered "art which 
reaches beyond age and language."

The Third Annual Thailand New Media Arts Festival (MAF05) is organized by the Initiative for Cultural Exchange and Computer 
Arts, Thailand (ICECA) and curated by Francis Wittenberger in collaboration with Juhani Koivumäki, Marco Brizzi, Douglas Irving 
Repetto, Prof. Michael Bielicky, Maria Rita Silvestri, Shankar Barua and Lucinda Catchlove. MAF05 content partners include iMage 
| Beyond Media Festival, Italy; BananaRAM Festival, Italy; IDEA India ; ArtBots Festival USA; and the Academy of Fine Arts, 
Prague New Media Dept. The Third Annual Thailand New Media Arts Festival’s First Event will take place 25-28 February. The 
Festival’s major event will take place 24-28 June, 2005 and will draw on the innovations of the first part, hosting the full range 
of lectures, presentations and exhibits and installations.

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Concept

Dedicated to the victims of the tsunami, the February event (MAF05_FEB) will foster global solidarity and cultural rebuilding. 
Alongside international forums, there will be performances, screenings and lectures by 16 international visiting artists. 

Thailand MAF internationally collects and locally presents works that demonstrates the evolution of technology and its creative 
use. This year’s topic focuses on how recent mobile, surveillance and genetic manipulation technology is blurring the boundaries 
of geographical and physical space. Selected works include dealing with new distinctions of personal privacy, direction shifts in 
cyber-communities and human interventions in biological processes. MAF defines “Digital skin” as connective digital boundary 
tissues.

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The festival as an ideal stage for cultural exchange:

Because of their institutional character, museums often lend an ‘aura’ and ‘artistic status’ to everything they show. By contrast, 
MAF show artworks in contemporary social spaces, allowing local public to enjoy the interaction of an artistic happening, thus 
eliminating the usual distance between visitors and artworks. The public is in fact constantly in the middle of an event: the 
exhibition halls are transformed by the installations which, together with the meetings with artists and critics, the screenings and 
the performances, create a total experience. The content of the festival is meant to provoke thought; in its informal format the 
festival is attractive for art enthusiasts as well as for those interested in communication, IT, cinema, design, and music. The 
festival highlights the bridge between digital culture and traditional creativity.

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Exhibition Space

The Bed Supperclub, an architecturally futuristic club, internationally renowned for eclectic food, music and performances will be 
the main location for MAF05. Various video work, motion graphics, live VJ and DJ jam sessions and art performances at night, as 
well as educational and cultural exchange meetings between Thai and international artists during daytime will be presented here. 
Video art screenings are held at the Auditorium Alliance Française of Bangkok (next to the French embassy, Sathorn Road) . 
Artist presentations of innovative digital works are held at British Council Bangkok (Siam Square). MAF05_JUNE also include 
public venues such as the open air screen at Center Point Siam, and Playground (Thong-Lor).

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Cultural Exchange sessions (also referred to as ‘meet the artist’)

In the main lounge of Bed Supperclub, the audience will come into closer contact with artists in an unformatted and informal 
setting. This afternoon series will also provide artists and professionals time for introductions, more detailed discussions on their 
works, the context’s of their works and the artist’s motivations. Previous such MAF meetings produced numerous international 
collaborations between German, Thai, Swedish and Israeli participants.

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Programme (updated 07 February 2005 – please confirm last minute changes on homepage announce)

Thursday, 24 February

19:30-21:30    VIP Opening

Official opening, local and digital international greetings, interactive video art performance by Jakraphun Thanateeranon “Anty 
Venus” 
(by Invitation only or press card) 

Bed Supperclub

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Friday, 25 February

15:30-17:00

Meet with the visiting Artists

Bed Supperclub

17:30-20:00

Visiting artists present works

Alliance Française

19:30-23:00

Special Dinner and performance by 
Silvia Winkler and Stephan Koepler (DE)

Bed Supperclub

23:00-1:30

DJ’s and VJ’s present media art with live online contributions                   

Bed Supperclub

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Saturday, 26 February

13:00-17:00

International artists living in Thailand, Jung-Chul Hur and Mick Skolnik present works. Lectures and workshops by Juhani K. 
Banze A. and others

Alliance Française

19:00-21:30

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr present SymbioticA and
the “Tissue Culture & Art project” (Bio related art),
Vijay Singh (SI) sound and movement performance

Alliance Française

19:30-23:00

Special Dinner and performance by 
Silvia Winkler and Stephan Koepler (DE)

Bed Supperclub

23:00-1:30

DJ’s and VJ’s present media art with live online contributions, video art screenings and more

Bed Supperclub

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Sunday, 27 February

15:30-17:00

Meet with the visiting Artists (D. Cham Pi, L. Catchlove)

Bed Supperclub

16:30-20:00

Juhani Koivumäki presents a selection of Swedish video art and own works (short films), other compilations VideoChannels2005 
(Agricola Decologne)

British Council

20:00-1:30

DJ and VJ Screenings and presentations 
Video art special programme

Bed Supperclub

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Monday, 28 February

15:30-17:00

Meet with the visiting Artists

Bed Supperclub (Restaurant)

19:30-1:30

Closing party: sponsored drinks, large screen video art, Vijay Singh performs. Meeting with artists from four continents to 
exchange ideas and plan for the future.

Bed Supperclub (Restaurant & Bar)

Artist listing for MAF05_FEB (updated 5 Feb. 2005)

INTERNATIONAL VISITING ARTISTS (LECTURES AND SCREENINGS)

Ak Don Cham Pi [3d graphics presentation]- Malaysia
Juhani Koivumaki [We have no Direction, Relationship, Swedish video art collection ] - Finland
Jung-Chul Hur [Frantic, video art screening] - Republic of Korea
Lucinda Catchlove [compilation of video art]- Canada
Mick Skolnick [Peeper, video art screening] - Thailand/USA
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr [The Tissue Culture & Art Project] - Australia
Sylvia Winkler, Stephan Koeperl- Germany

INTERNATIONAL VISITING PERFORMERS

Alfred Banze and Wannapa Promgeen [Banyan: multimedia art performance]- Germany and Thailand
Vijay Singh [Sweetalker Sleepwalker – performs Watch me Sleep] - Singapore
Lubor Banda [ JV.Lobo ] - Czech Republic
Sarah Jane Pell [Hydrophilia: performance] - Australia

THAI NEW MEDIA ART

Chawit Waewsawangwong [Hate, video]- Thailand
Poom Rattavisit [I, video]- Thailand
Wahchalobon Puwanad [Exit, animation]- Thailand
Wannapa Promgeen (and Alfred Banze ) [Banyan, dance] - Thailand and Germany
Jakraphun Thanateeranon [Anty Venus – interactive performance ] (Thailand)

VIDEO ART

Academy or Fine Arts Prague [ Love-Erotica-Sex compilation ] - Czech Republic
Alfredo Cramerotti [dis l attachements] - Germany
Ang Sookoon [ Bend to Mirth  Let Go Aviary, away, pantomime mute ] -Singapore
Bernhard Loibner [Fragmented Memory] - Austria
Blondeel/Vorfeld [256kHz] - Belgium
Chiara Passa [The Origin of Imagination] - Italy
Dave Burns [Patriotic , Asswax ]- USA
Dominic Redfern [Twin Share, Roller]- Australia
Emmanuel Avenel and Marrie-France Giraudon [ circumvisions ] - Canada
Ellen Zweig [ precarious ] - USA
Gerald Vak [ Traffic ] - Austria
Herve Constant [ Hand Ballet ] - UK
Jeong Han Kim [ Acrophobia ] - Korea South 
Jung-chul Hur [ Frantic ] - Korea Republic Of
Koka Ramishvili [ Drawing Lesson ] - Switzerland
Kate Vickers [ Inner-Sense ] - Australia
Lee Welch [ Again & Again ] - Ireland
Masha Ermolaeva [- Russia
Michael Brynntrup [ Blue Box Blues, E.C.G. Expositus ] - Germany 
Myriam Bessette [ Nuée ] - Canada
Peter Lemmens [ clippings ] - Belgium
Robin Dupuis [ Anoxi ] - Canada
Radek Dabrowski [de internet explorer] - Belgium
Sachiko Hayashi [Boop-oop-a-doop] – Sweden/Japan
Shaun Wilson [The Memory Palace IV, Gone ]- Australia
Susanna Carlisle [ Plie, Timepiece ] - USA 
Tanya Vision [ Blow ]- Australia
Timothy Weaver [ Biological narrative 1 thru 5] – USA

DIGITAL IMAGING and DIGITAL AUDIO WORKS

Herve Constant [Hand Ballet] - UK
Howe Daniel Canazon  (online sound environment) - USA
Shankar Barua [ 197 Ganesh ] – India
Zazie [digital imaging ]– Austria

ONLINE WORKS

Adam Nash [Scorched Happiness] - Australia
Alessandro Capozzo [Relations, Ad Libitum, 6 Flora Variations] - Italy
Ana Prvacki [Double Jointed Wave] - Singapore
Dion Laurent [The Golden Age of Barcodes] - USA
Doron Golan [Shift and Control] - USA
Howe Daniel Canazon  [Bugout:online sound environment] - USA
Michael Takeo Magruder [Event] - USA/UK
Nicole Lawther [00xlove, html<love>, sticks and stones] - Australia
Petra Kuppers [Tracks]- USA · Performances

Online references 

Thailand New Media Festival 2005

http://thailand.culturebase.org/MAF05

Thailand New Media Festival  and ICECA

http://thailand.culturebase.org

iMage / Beyond Media Festival, Italy

http://www.image-web.org/

BananaRAM Festival, Italy

http://www.bananaram.org

ArtBots, USA

http://artbots.org/

IDEA, India

http://retiary.net/idea/

Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

http://leo.avu.cz/

British Council Thailand

http://www.britishcouncil.or.th

Alliance Française of Bangkok

http://www.alliance-francaise.or.th

Bed Supperclub Bangkok

http://www.bedsupperclub.com

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Chiara Passa
chiapa at libero.it 
www.chiarapassa.it 

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