ICECA - Cultural
Exchange and Computer Arts - media art lecture series (link
to travellab.net)
Read
an article about ICECA (the Bangkok Post)
HISTORY
ICECA is the
result of a vision of merging Thai lifestyle with innovative art and technology.
ICECA is based in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand and run by media artist
Francis Wittenberger. Since Dec. 2001, ICECA has maintained
a regular link between Chiang Mai and mainly European countries, communicating
with media artists who want to share their expertise with Thai artists
and the Thai general public. For That reason ICECA supports those
artists who want to come to Thailand and conduct lectures to expand artistic
horizons and promote artistic research.
ICECA is an official
collaboration with the CMU Faculty Fine Arts based on an approved application
by CMU faculty of fine arts committee. All ICECA activity is open to the
public. Its activities are artistic and educational and not conducted for
profit. ICECA is supported by KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN (link).,
a contemporary art gallery located in Berlin, Germany.
Visiting
Artists
Artists who
apply (via email) proposing a project will, if accepted, receive
an official letter of invitation on which they can base a request for travel
funding at their home country. Once a date is confirmed ICECA will organize
accommodations, rooms for lectures and workshops, technical infrastructure,
and will look for volunteers to translate etc. The visiting artists
will stay for about one to two weeks and will be provided with accommodations
at night and free internet access at CMU during office hours. ICECA rents
a house near the university for invited artist's accommodation .
ICECA office
at CMU Art Museum
Our local coordination
office in Chiang Mai, a small room for mini workshops and the CMU Theater
 . .
ICECA's main
office is located at the Chiangmai University Art Museum (Nimmanhemin Road).
ICECA at CMU
Faculty of Architecture
ICECA also collaborates
with the CMU Faculty of Architecture and conducts enrichment workshops
for 3-D animation and media art at the 'ICECA Collaborative Media Space'
 . .
Views of our
collaborative workspace
Past new
media art lectures and workshops with some visiting artists:
'Media
art today and yesterday' with Prof. M. Bielicky
 . .
Five days of
presentations: from 'pre-media art' to recent works in media art
Media art
presentation by Prof. Michael Bielicky (Germany)
 . .
Lecture and
video presentation at CMU art Museum
"History of
Video Art" with Keiko Sei (Japan)
 . .
lecture and
video presentation about video art at CMU Art Museum
"GIS for Art"
with Roi Regev (Israel)
 . .
a crash course
on "Geographic Information System" and how an artist might use it
"Programming
for Artist" with Arie Rudich (Israel)
 . .
4 day programming
course that turned out to be an introduction to 2-D, 3-D, sound and most
computer- aided forms of art. over 60 Students attended this workshop
"About New
Media and Media Artists" lecture by Francis Wittenberger (Israel)
 . .
The lectures
were at the request of CMU fine art students..
"X-frog flower
library" a workshop With Francis Wittenberger
 . .
3-D
reconstruction of a Thai flower with X-frog Software (www.greenworks.de)
The
"Weekly SFX course"
(Special Effects) with Francis Wittenberger
 . .
'stop
and rewind screenings' of SFX feature films with comments and 3D live demonstration
Planned activities with visiting artists include:
Jacques Perconte, Nicko Docxs, Michael Bielicky
ICECA's
Cultural Exchange program for new media arts is an open on-going project.
Media
artists and institutions are welcome to contact
us for future collaborative art events in Thailand. |
