CIAC Talks

CIAC Talks Bangkok on on Art, Science and Technology now available

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The fourth episode of CIAC Talks Bangkok  is now available on the Youtube channel CIACmedia. Meet Eiji Sumi, an artist and lighting designer, originally from Tokyo, Japan, who has been living and working in Bangkok, Thailand since 2012.

Eiji Sumi is a professor in the International Communication Design Program and Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University and was a graduate student in Design at SoA+D / KMUTT in Bangkok. Sumi’s approach ofmix media explores investigations in diverse materials, digital media and lighting. His projects, exhibited and awarded internationally, bring together art, science and technology. The inspirations on works such as Quark IV, which integrates the exhibition “All Possible Path” from Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman at The Art Science Museum Singapore (2018 to 2019), are themes explored in this episode on “Art, Science and Technology”.

CIAC Talks Bangkok was recorded through the Postgraduate Program in Design at the Jacob Jensen Design Office/KMUTT Knowledge Exchange for Innovation Center (KX) in Bangkok, Thailand.  The series was a collaboration between the CIAC/UAlg audiovisual team and SoA+D/KMUTT.  The interviews were produced and conducted by journalist, multimedia creator, FCT-CIAC research fellow, and Digital Media-Art Ph.D. student Juliana Wexel, under the supervision of the creator and coordinator of CIAC Talks Bangkok, Mirian Tavares. 

  All participants in the CIAC Talks Bangkok season are closely associated with SoA+D as professors, visiting artists, and alumni, invited by one of the scientific coordinators of Cultural Adventures, Nigel Power (SoA+D/KMUTT). 

The next and final episode of the series CIAC Talks Bangkok  features an interview with Unchalee Anantawat, Thai graphic designer and creator of the  Speedy Grandma project.

This initiative is part of the ongoing scientific and artistic research project, Cultural Adventures. The project establishes interactions between Faro and Bangkok, exploring historical, contemporary, cultural, documentary, fictional, factual, and symbolic relationships between two distinct cultural contexts. Cultural Adventures is developed by CIAC in collaboration with the School of Architecture and Design at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (SoA+D), in the areas of visual communication and digital art, and is scientifically coordinated by Bruno Mendes da Silva and Nigel Power. 

CIAC Talks Bangkok / Eiji Sumi– Art, Science and Technology

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 This work is funded by National Funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under the project UIDP/04019/2020.