Sarawut Chutiwongpeti

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Bangkok based installation and multi media artist concerned with the language and response to contemporary arts.

Bio

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. Since graduation, he has been working as a media artist with the Cyber Lab at the Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University. He has contributed to the development of the media arts through his artistic and research practice at a variety of noted international institutions including the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), ImaginAsia Project, Smithsonian Institution (The Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M.Sackler Gallery, United State of America), ZKM Project, (Institute for Visual Media, Germany), Designskolen (Denmark), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Waseda University; Kobe University of Design (Japan), Central European University (Hungary).

Statement

Graphic Art Series One

My goal is to investigate the expressive possibilities of conceptual visual language and to develop Collaborative New Art as part of both Contemporary Art/Contemporary Global Structure and the Technological Civilization in which we live today. I am especially interested in finding out how contemporary art can enhance the distribution of information and foster a profound universality in the human nature and cross-cultural artistic and critical collaboration. I am guided by the following set of questions: Are sensations-reactions to contemporary art still significant today? In what way and how can contemporary art theory and practice address and help solve today's global problems? And finally, Can contemporary conceptual art disclose the corrupted social values in mega polices and create a bridge between the present and the future generations?

For the installation segment UTOPIA 1997:

Today, the world is full of uncertainties and ambiguities. Science and civilization are not able to yield all answers or solutions to our satisfaction. At times, knowledge may have an impact that are beyond the individual intuition and intellect. Often advances in science have challenged moral codes and ethics as well as faith and religion. When science and technology are utilized "inappropriately" they are seen as being a harm and threat to humanity. The contradictory side of utopia is full of pessimism. Man's quest to conquer distant galaxies, an endless search for territories and colonies reflect his inner instinct for power, aggrandizement, and control. The imbalance of power between those who control and those under control has contributed to disorder and dilemma. In the era of confusion and distortion values of aesthetics and common sense have been greatly transformed. At the end of the century we are facing the crisis of world civilization.