CELLULOID FELLOWS
Category: ARCHIVES
INTERVIEW : PEN-EK RATANARUANG
FROM CREATIVE GROUP HEAD TO ADVERTISING FILM DIRECTOR, PEN-EK RATANARUANG IS NOW WORKING ON HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM. ART4D TALKS TO HIM ABOUT THE PLOT, THE IDEAS BEHIND IT, AND HIS EXPECTATIONS FOR THE FUTURE.
DO IT THAI VERSION
LAST WEEK, WE PICKED AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL ART EXHIBITION ‘DO IT’ WHICH FLEXIBLE AND OPEN-ENDED BY INVITING INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS TO SEND ‘INSTRUCTION’ TO CREATE AN ARTWORK INTERNATIONALLY THAT INCLUDED THAILAND. HERE, TAKE READ A SHORT CONVERSATION BETWEEN ART4D AND THE ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN A THAI VERSION OF DO IT, THAT TALK ABOUT THE BACKGROUND INCLUDED A WORKING METHOD FOLLOWING THE ‘INSTRUCTION’ THEY RECEIVED.
DO IT AGAIN
HANS ULRICH OBRIST INITIATED ‘DO IT’ IN 1994 IN HOPE TO EXPERIMENT ON A MORE FLEXIBLE AND OPEN-ENDED EXHIBITION BY INVITING ARTISTS TO SEND ‘INSTRUCTION’ BEFORE THEY WERE TRANSLATED AND CIRCULATED INTERNATIONALLY. IN 1996, THE 14 INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE RENOWN ARTIST FINALLY MADE IT TO BANGKOK AND THE THAI VERSION OF ‘DO IT’ WAS REALIZED BY 11 THAI ARTISTS. LET’S SEE HOW THAT EXHIBITION TURNED OUT AT THE TIME.
ARCHITECTURE IN CYBER-EVOLUTION
CAN ARCHITECTURE GROW ORGANICALLY AS THOUGH IT HAS ITS OWN (ARTIFICIAL) LIFE? BEFORE THE RISE OF THE ALGORITHMIC MODELING PROGRAMS WE EMPLOY NOWADAYS, LET’S HAVE A LOOK AT THE 1995’S PROJECT OF MANIT RASTOGI FROM THE AA IN LONDON, A STUDENT OF THE ORIGINATOR OF EVOLUTIONARY DIGITAL DESIGN, JOHN H. FRAZER, THAT HIS PROCESS OF USING ‘GENETIC CODING’ HAD TURNED COMPUTER FROM AN AID TO DESIGN INTO AN EVOLUTIONARY ACCELERATOR
INFORMATION AS ART
FROM THE ARCHIVES THIS WEEK, TWO WORKS OF PUVANAI MON DARDARANANDA ARE BEING REVISITED TO ILLUSTRATE US HOW THE ‘ELECTRONIC ART’ WAS LIKE DURING THE 90s
LETTERS: MARIKO TERADA
BACK IN 1995, THE EDITORIAL TEAM OF JAPAN’S ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE, SD (SPACE DESIGN) CAME TO VISIT THAILAND IN HOPE OF FINDING ANOTHER MORE CONTEMPORARY NOTION OF ‘THAI STYLE’ THAT WAS BEYOND THE IMAGES OF THAINESS THE FOREIGNERS ONCE PERCEIVED FROM WILLAIM WARREN’S ‘THAI STYLE’ PUBLISHED IN 1990. LET’S FIND OUT WHAT MARIKO TERADA, AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF SD, CAME ACROSS 24 YEARS AGO AND HOW IT CAN REFLECT UPON THE THAI STYLE WE ALL HAVE AT PRESENT
BACK HOME AGAIN
KANIKA RATANAPRIDAKUL TALKS ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES WITH THE REVOLUTIONARY TEACHING METHODS OF SCI-ARC, MORPHOSIS AND DECON. SHE HAS STRONG OPINIONS ON ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION IN U.S.A. SHE ALSO HAS STRONG CRITICISM OF THAI ARCHITECTURE. SO, WHAT’S SHE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
CYBER SEX
FINALLY, VIRTUALITY IS CROSSING THE LINE
INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE
