DMA-PSG Exhibition and Workshop Program: "Interactive Art" (2017)

The works created for the exhibition Interactive Art: The

Relationship of Humans and Technology are the product of a collaboration between selected graduate students from UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and undergraduate and graduate students from Silpakorn University’s School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts.

In some ways our working method resembled a jam or

hackathon, and in other ways it felt like a residency, adventure, and improvised interactive artist-run school. We began the residency with short lectures on our respective art practice. We held workshops and talks on interactive art and play;

artists hacking sites with web graffiti; creating im-

provised electronic instruments; and an introduction to creative coding for the web with P5JS. We visited electronics stores, temples, malls, concerts and numerous markets to spark ideas and gather materials. We broke into small groups to begin brainstorming collaborative project ideas. Over two weeks our ideas evolved into full-fledged works resulting in our exhibition at BACC. We are proud of the results and excited for our audience to interact with it.

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Department of Art faculty, especially Amrit Chusuwan, Dr. Toeingam Guptabutra, Adirek Lohakul, Jakapan Vilasineekul, 2017 Student Representative Thotsaphon Sawatdiphan, and the Student Affairs officers for their generosity in hosting us and their financial support for this residency. Thank you to UCLA Design Media Arts for generously sponsoring this partnership residency and exhibition, including staff members Sara Lee, Esther Blair, Brenda Williams, Bayan Sadighi as well as our professors Christian Moeller, Rebecca

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Huhtamo,

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Peter Lunenfeld, Lauren McCarthy, Chandler McWilliams, Rebeca Mendez, Casey Reas, Jennifer Steinkamp, Eddo Stern and Victoria Vesna. Faculty and staff worked together to make this program happen. Thank you to BACC for supporting and hosting the exhibition. We would also like to thank our fellow students at Silpakorn. They served as guides, friends and co-collaborators in their department and home.

We can only hope to return the favor as generously.

Lee Tusman and Tuangkamol Thongburisute, August 2017

Exhibition 26-27 AUG 2017 Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

An interactive experience where common social tensions are used to immerse audiences in a fantasy world where the rules of social exchange are broken. Exploring sculptural form and VR technology, physical and virtual realities merge within groups of viewers to imagine alternate modes of relations.

OOXOO Artists: Kristin McWharter, Panarit Suejindaporn, Vitawin Diloksambandh Interactive Installation VR viewers , Elastic, Wood Dimensions Variable

“ซุม้ วิถ”ี is a project that links disparate artifacts into a network of uneasy harmony. Drawing from the richly varied landscape of Thailand, Jack Turpin, Sirasith Poopattanapong and Pradnampetch Kanoknak have created an amalgamation of sound, image and form. Tender drops of rainfall are broken off by dense traffic noise, intricate patterning is disrupted by hard geometry; the virtual and actual collide.

ซุ้มแห่งวิถี Artists: Jack Turpin, Sirasith Poopattanapong, Pradnampetch Kanoknak mixed media interactive sculpture found objects, photogrammetry Physical sculpture 3 x 1.5 x 1.7m

Do you want to be me?

2 Channels Video installation 3 mins per video

Artists: Christina Yglesias, Natthorn Tansurat, Pawan Chiranothai

“Do you want to be me?”

“Do you want to be me?” is a video exploration of the the multiple facets of identity in drag and cosplay subcultures,allowing individuals to communicate with their alter-egos.

Zong Klom Sight

Artists: Eli Joteva, Chanon Dechasophonand, materials, bike metal, camera optics, sensors forWarangkana Prasertphon e light and biofeedback

lom Sight

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“Zong Klom Sight” encapsulates the complex relationship between human and machine sensing of natural environments.

At its core, a film camera’s image-capturing function becomes dependent on the physical and technological performance of the body. Sensors for levels of light, water and soil moisture track the changes in the environment to manipulate the shutter of the camera, while kinetic attachments control its physical movement and frame. Live brainwave signals translated into light translate the body’s memory of the traversed landscape to illuminate the film during performance.

ด้วยความขอบคุณ

(Give Thanks)

Artists: Lee Tusman, Tuangkamol Thongborisute, Jutamad Thammatonsiri, Siriwich Sodprasert

Interactive Installation Art Wooden altar, dolls, electronic appliances, plastic baskets and shelves,

ด้วยความขอบคุณ (Give Thanks)

ด้วยความขอบคุณ (Give Thanks) is an interactive work to bring the viewer luck and fortune. The person who desires to consult must concentrate and pay respect. Though traditionally those desiring fortune have a clear wish already in mind,

ด้วยความขอบคุณ (Give Thanks) invents a new prayer or wish for each new viewer with a wish they may not have realized previously. Once a desirable wish has appeared the viewer must demonstrate their acceptance. ด้วยความขอบคุณ (Give Thanks) will also provide dancers to demonstrate appropriate gratitude for their results.

david’s Viewers are encouraged to sit at the table and move the objects around.

Bangkok City Benches explores everyday objects of Thai material culture from both local and foreign perspectives. The benches in the installation are found everywhere in the Bangkok area.

They serve as a meeting point for friends to gossip, eat, and hang out. Thai artists; Chalida Asawakanjanakit and Supanut Maios and American artist David Ertel researched the process for constructing the benches in order to reproduce other common design objects using those same materials. They created an interactive game which experiments the ways objects Viewers are encouraged to sit atwith the table andthose move the canobjects be usedaround. to connect people to each other. The interactive installation serves both as a diary of David’s experience in Thailand through objects he consumed, as well as an Bangkok City the Benches explores everyday objects of exploration Thai material of culture how these objects helpand people to perspectives. interact and The connect with from both local foreign benches in the each other. installation are found everywhere in the Bangkok area.

They serve as a meeting point for friends to gossip, eat, and hang out. Thai artists; Chalida Asawakanjanakit and Supanut Maiyos and American artist David Ertel researched the process for constructing the benches in order to reproduce other common design objects using those same materials. They created an interactive game which experiments with the ways those objects can be used to connect people to each other. The interactive installation serves both as a diary of David’s experience in Thailand through the objects he consumed, as well as an exploration of how these objects help people to interact and connect with each other.

Bangkok City Benches Artist: David Ertel, Chalida Asawakanjanakit, Supanut Maiyos Installation White cement, stones 140x 140x 100cm

WORKSHOPS 7-25 AUG 2017 Silpakorn University, Sanam Chandra Palace Campus

DMA-PSG ARTIST BIOS

Tuangkamol Thongborisute

Tuangkamol Thongborisute (Tuang) is a new-media artist.

She interested in human behavior, emotion, and social relationship through technology interaction. Tuang creates artworks with playful quality which allow the audiences to explore the surrounding matters, their inner selves, and relationship. Most of her works are interactive art, activity, installation, and some combination of toys and games. Tuang earned her BFA from Mixed Media Department, Silpakorn University. While in school, she recieved sevaral grants and fellowships.Tuang received the King Bhumibol Schorlarship’s golden badge when she has graduated with the first-class honor in 2013. tuangstudio.com instagram.com/tuangstudio facebook.com/tuangstudio

Eli Joteva Eli Joteva is an inter media artist and a researcher working at the intersection of neurophysics and art through the use of new imaging tools and biofeedback technologies.Using various photographic, digital and sculptural mediums to amplify the invisible, inaudible and intangible, her works often aim to extrapolate the ephemeral realms of human perception.

Her current interests expand out of contemporary neurophysics research while her practice focuses on the experience and construction of memory in physical, virtual and mental landscapes. joteva.com instagram.com/joteva

Jack Turpin Jack Turpin is an artist and an educator living in Los Angeles, CA. His installations, videos, and performances utilize abstraction as a means to investigate representational media and the embedded ideologies therein.

His work has been shown domestically and internationally in film festivals, galleries, and broadcast on television.

Jack received a BFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2015 and is currently an MFA candidate in Design | Media Arts at UCLA.

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Lee Tusman is a new media artist and a curator who interested in the application of the radical ethos of collectives and DIY culture to the creation of, aesthetics, and opensource distribution methods of digital culture.

His artistic output includes interactive media, videvo art, net art, experimental videogames, sound art, websites, twitter bots and micro-power radio stations. Tusman has curated dozens of exhibitions and performance projects at universities, galleries, institutions, and alternative spaces including The Hammer Museum; Riverside Art Museum; Babycastles; California State University, Northridge; University of California, Riverside; Pew Center For Arts and Heritage - New Spaces/New Formats; and many others. His most recent project, Room 21, a new performance project with composer Jace Clayton for The Barnes Foundation, supported

by Pew Center For Arts & Heritage.

He studied at Brandeis University and received his MFA at UCLA in Design Media Arts in Spring 2017.

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David Ertel is an artist working in video,installation and sound.

His recent works include Faces, a web installation of short videos of architectural spaces arranged in an interactive 3D space, and Perdre et retrouver le nord, a collaboration with filmmaker Marie-Hélène Cousineau, where he composed sound and music to accompany filmed landscapes of Canada’s arctic north. His work has been featured in publications including Vice Magazine, The Creators Project, Interview Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Pitchfork, and The Guardian. He has been the recipient of several artist grants by institutions such as the PHI Centre, Canada Council for the Arts, and SODEC.

davidertel.com dertel@ucla.edu

Christina Yglesias is an artist and a curator working in video, web, and installation. She is working to implement and theorize a networked social practice, in which social interactions filtered through technology make up the material for her work.

Her most recent project, U Still Up? is a multichannel video installation that explores intimacy and disconnection through exchanges with Craigslist strangers.

She received her BFA in 2014 from Mills College and is currently a candidate to receive her MFA from University of California Los Angeles Design Media Arts department in 2018.

Kristin McWharter is an interdisciplinary artist whose work interrogates the relationship between competition and intimacy.

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Her research explores where personal experiences of awkwardness manifest from within both individual and group perspectives. She uses immersive sculptural installations, videos, and viewer-inclusive performances to blur the boundaries of social intimacy and personal narrative in an effort to invoke viewer’s individual relationships to affection, antagonism, sincerity and discomfort.

She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 and is currently an MFA candidate at UCLA in Design and Media Arts.

Jutamad Thammatonsiri (b.1994, Chiangmai) is an art student of Sculpture Department of Silpakorn University. Jutamad is interested in the transformation of geometry forms.

She uses the paper folding technique for her works to create kinetic geometry structures or deployable structures. Her folding and unfolding forms are related to various sensors, which are used to produce the works’ interactive functions.

Jutamad recently finished a collaboration work involved light and sound sensation for the 7th Playing Sound Around Art Festival, at Silpakorn University.

jutamuii@hotmail.com Siriwich Sodprasert is an art student of the Painting Department of Silpakorn University. He interested in the topics of belief, technology and electronic.

His works can be called as a painting conceptual interactive installation.

He visualizes abstract feeling into concrete objects. He uses several computer programs to link the art objects and the digital world to each other, such as Processing, Arduino, Reaper, and Max MSP. Siriwich had his first group exhibition in 2014, named “10steps exhibition at PSG Art Gallery, Silpakorn University. Later in 2016, he had a group exhibition called “1+1 drawing exhibition at The Seven Art Gallery”, and “Sea Side Shade Part 2 Impression” at Venice di Iris Artspace. siriwich_2938@hotmail.com

Chalida Asawakanjanakit (b. 1994, Bangkok) is an art student of Mix-media Department of Silpakorn University who often joins local and international art activities, workshops and art festivals. She spends time writing her art and design journey on the Internet.

Chalida is interested in light phenomenon and relational aesthetics.

Accordingly, her work is light interactive installation. She works with various electronic and coding programs, such as Processing, Max msp and Arduino.

Chalida has her first solo exhibition in 2016. The recent group exhibition was the Embassy of United States’ project’s American Arts Incubator, which was held at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. asawach@hotmail.com Supanut Maiyos(b. 1997, 6th of March)in Bangkok,Thaland He graduated from Kasetsart University Laboratory School. Now studying at Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn university, 3rd years, Art Theory.He loves to travel and meet people because they can give the new opportunities to find new world and new inspirations.

He went to Vang Vieng, Loas, Myanmar, Singapore.His travels goal is Greenland.

He has been interested in science and technology since childhood, so he would like to be a computer graphic in film or game industry. He just discovered Kinetic, Robotic, Interactive art when he came to study at Silpakorn University. He thinks it’s the combination of science and art and he like when people excited with it. supanut_kus@hotmail.com

Sirasith Poopattanapong aka Sirasith Visual (b.1994, Bangkok) has graduated from the Painting Department of Silpakorn University. In school, he was mesmerized by synchronizations of sounds and images, thus, he began to seek a relationship between visual effects and sound. With a huge interest in this aesthetic form, he continued to explore the mediums and tools in this field and turned it to be his main artistic language. His works include experimental videos with glitch and error styles. He creates live experimental visuals and music performance. He always uses various softwares and tools, such as Resolume, Fractal software, After effect, and webcam.

Sirasith’s works have featured in music gig, art space and events in both commercial and artistic contexts. He has begun his works in the DJ community as a VJ since 2016. He had done shows in many big and small music festivals. Sirasith’s recent performances are the opening act of the Honne Live in Bangkok Concert, and the Cine-Concert at Leiden International Short Film Experience 2017 in Netherland.

Tungsirasith@Gmail.com

Pradnampetch Kanoknak (b. 1996, Bangkok) is an art student of Mixed Media department of Silpakorn University.She is interested in classical music,traditional music, sound, timing, materials and space. She creates artworks in photography and materials in space and video art that represent the importance of a moment of time.

Natthorn Tansurat (born 1996, Bangkok) is currently studying for her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She’s interested in conceptual art and Graphic design.Many of her works feature themes of social issues, delicate subject, feminist’s movement and environmental problems in Thailand. She uses various techniques to create her art projects such as documentary video art, performance art, and photography. Her process between working is often start by choose the topic or concept then analyze each issues that she’s interested in , create the visual actuate audience’s feelings proudds-@hotmail.com

Pawan Chirano-thai was born and raised up in Bangkok. She is an art student of Mixed Media Department of Silpakorn University. Her passion for art has begun at a young age by comic and pop culture.Pawan is interested in the topic of the difference between Fine Arts and design concept. Thus, she creates her artworks that resemble popular design pieces using wood and EVA foam. She is interested in kinetic art which can combine with the human body.

She won a painting competition in 2013 and had a group show called Journal Journey in 2017.

Pwn.chrnth@hotmail.com

Panarin Suejindaporn is an art student in the Painting Department of Silpakorn University. He interested in social science, histories, philosophy, andart aesthetic. He works with various media such as painting, documentary, performance video, installation, and relational art.

Panarin usually uses appropriations ,which are textbooks, theories, and symbols, or even well-known arts both native and foreign. He uses them for a guideline, then he re-interprets them in different contexts from the original one.

Mostly, he usually presents social and political for his subjects.

Panarin Suejindaporn

thetime4lunch@gmail.com Vitawin Diloksambandh (b.1994,Bangkok) is a sculpture student.

Vitawin first started to make sculptures that project his interest in the relationship between humans and animals.

After experimenting with many mediums, his works became more about transforming data of human and animals and installed it as new-media artworks. He is ambitious to experiment on new-media art forms.

Vitawin has joined several group exhibition while he is still in school.

The recent group exhibition was the Embassy of United States’ project’s American Arts Incubator, which was held at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.

vit_bcc@hotmail.com vitwain diloksambandh

Warangkana Prasertphon Warangkana Prasertphon (b.1994, Nonthaburi) is an art student of the Mixed Media Department of Silpakorn University.

Warangkana interested in creating art pieces that are moved by mechanical and made from worthless things.

Warangkana is found of Light and Interactive Art. She combines them to create new art forms that present new experiences to the audiences.

Most015600676@gmail.com

Chanon Dechasophon Chanon Dechasophon (b.1990, Bangkok) is an art student of Mix-media Department of Silpakorn University. Chanon is interested in the environment Energy and technology. he works to create kinetic and interactive.Later his is developed in to robot artist. It can drawing, performance,sound art, installation and interactive with people.

FB:Chanon Ds cha_non2000@hotmail.com

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