(EVA 3) : Experimental Video Art 3 Exhibition, Thai - European Friendship 2006

Experimental Video Art 3 Exhibition, Thai - European Friendship 2006
postmodern traveler
The global tourist industry and an increasingly globalized mass media have a major impact on our perception of locality, temporarily, as well as cultural identity. Not only have conventional transport and travel altered our sense of distance, but also we have entered the postmodern digital space than context. The postmodern traveler's assumption of the world is no longer grounded in reality which intensifies a sense of dislocation, difference and fragmented subjectivity.
Today tourism has made even the remotest areas of the world accessible and turned them into new commodities for consumerism's global
marketplace. To travel to a different country, and to see and experience other customs, is never free from misinterpretation and sometimes even conflict. Bound to economic demands of a country, the tourist industry has created environments for visitors including hotels, restaurants, stores and visitor services that seem increasingly similar, however, attractive as one is enchanted by the cultural difference, beauty and regional distinction of a foreign country.
This familiarity of places where one sides only temporarily is deceptive through and often lends to cultural misunderstanding.
The tourist gaze tends to misread the signals that are culturally defined and interprets them in a way that is know to her or him. This mutual influence of different cultures caused by tourism, and the fabrication of materials, ideas and souvenirs that represent and sell a different culture, therefore gradually seem to confuse geographical space and cultural identity.
The assumption the post modern traveler makes of reality and one's own self-awareness are today a mix of various stopovers in foreign countries perceived not only through actual traveling but also through the circulation of mass produced images of various locations. New media sustain the promotional purposes of the tourist industry, as well as the postmodern traveler documents individual impressions and experiences on photographs and video recordings while visiting another culture. The use of new media increasingly contributes to the postmodern sense of displacement individually and culturally, and the postmodern traveler is already part of a ceaseless journey around the world in support of the global tourist industry.
Miriam Nöske


list of artists

Jun Yan, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Akasak Chanang, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Ursula Hansbauer & Wolfgang Konrad, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Ascan Breuer, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Komson Nookiew, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Doris Schmid, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Nattana Buloyd, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Katrina Daschner, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Panomporn Choosak, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Sabine Marte, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Sorasak Sekelo, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Carmen Armbruster, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Kitti Sornmanee, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Yann Bautista, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Khae Mungkornwong, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Julia Weidner, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Arun Yaithong, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Miriam Nöske, University of the Arts Berlin, Germany
Komon Meewong, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Tessa Knapp, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Toeigam Guptabutra, Chelsea College of Arts and Design, UK
Daniel Burkhardt, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Pisitakun Kuntalang, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Phillipp Messner, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Pitiwat Somthai, Burapa University, Chonburi, Thailand
Matej Modrinjak, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Burap Seekorn, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
Heidrun Holzfeind, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Chaiwat Somton, Juta Manying, Kitsanun Sukrug, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
Tanonsak Meejanpath, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
Pascal Fendrich, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Anecha Sookgaserm, Burapa University, Chonburi, Thailand
Martina Höfler, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Nattawat Charernworagitjagarn, Katui, Parinart Boonnark, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand
Brendan Kornheim, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Chatchawan Nilsakul, ChiangMai University, ChiangMai, Thailand
Surachok Sangthunchai, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand
Theerawat Laohawikul, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Wasu Sakulrat, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Wutichai Chamchoi, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Lalinthorn Pencharoen, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
Morakot Keartkrol, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzing, Germany
Arnont Nongyaow, Preeda Putthnametee, Prajag La-or, Prapapron Khamyard, ChiangMai University, ChiangMai, Thailand
Jahann Neumeister, Academy of Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
Isara Panjapornpon, ChiangMai University, ChiangMai, Thailand

Co-operators

Associated Professor Pitiwat Somthai, Burapha University
Instructor Sakchai Bunin, Bunditpatanasilata Institute
Instructor Chatcha Nilsakun and Kosit Jantrathip, ChiangMai University
Instructor Komson Nookiew, King Mungkut's institute of Technology, Ladkabang.

Places of Exhibition

King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Ladkabang,
Faculty of Architecture, Fine Arts Department.
9 - 13 January 2006
Bunditpatanasilata Institute, Faculty of Fine Arts.
23 - 27 January 2006
Burapha University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts.
6 - 10 February 2006
ChiangMai University, Faculty of Fine Arts.
20 - 24 February 2006