Thailand New Media Arts Festival
If you’re thinking about vacationing or doing business in Asia, and looking for five-star hotels, Bangkok is not to be missed. Located in a real tropical paradise, with natural wonders all around, but with the amenities and the culture of a large city, it’s one of the hottest spots in all of Asia, and with good reason. The multicultural city is absolutely metropolitan, with the tastes and the languages and the ideas that only large concentrations of human culture can maintain. The energy is vibrant and the pace is wide-awake, but with a large dose of sultry tropical charm. There are gracious amenities in the hotels that will help you relax in a perfect getaway, but there are also enchantments on the streets that will make for exciting new adventures.
The art scene here is vibrant and active, with lots of cultures intersecting and making new work that speaks to the city and the world. One of the great festivals in recent years was the Thailand New Media Arts Festival . It was held in Bangkok for four consecutive years between 2003 and 2006, and is evidence of the city’s ability to plug in to international trends and also contribute to the artistic conversation going on in the world. Looking at the intersections of visual and performing arts and technology, digital art is at the forefront of speaking to a peculiar world view that is absolutely modern.
Not focusing on any particular art form, but including video art, installation art, digital graphic art, electronic music, and other experiments, the Thailand New Media Arts Festival was a rare bird in global culture, and ahead of its time, certainly. The artists on the bill were from Germany, Austria, and Thailand, among other places, and were brought together to forge artistic and academic conversations in a public setting. Held over the course of a month, this was a festival devoted to building long conversations among its participants as well as evoking the curiosity of the public. By all accounts the performances offered an enormous variety of work that was often quite stunning and always intriguing. It would seem very likely that the festival will find a second life in the years ahead, and will be of great benefit to the world community.
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