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23/2/2005

MAF05

Different venues, Bangkok

Third Annual THAILAND NEW MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
Thailand New Media Arts Festival: “Intimacy::Digital Skin”

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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)
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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, sticks and stones] - Australia
Petra Kuppers [Tracks]- USA · Performances

Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2005
Bed SupperClub
26 Soi Sukhumvit 11
Klongtoey-nua Wattana
Bangkok 10110
Thailand

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