ETHNOGRAPHY
CENTER FOR MEDIA ETHNOGRAPHY AND VISUALIZING CULTURE
New Space for Thinking shape as an office that is aimed for critical research works. Media ethnography and visualizing culture are the main concerned topics which have become the crucial research contents that this office will be launching out. Emphasizing on the topic, the Thai society is the case study where media phenomenon will be investigated and visual logics that have made the Thai culture a field of being or becoming visualized politically, economically, geographically, and linguistically will be explored
O-PERCEPTION
CENTER FOR NEW MEDIA EXPERIMENTS
Critically studying the social phenomena in many dimensions; especially technology and media culture that generate a public collective consciousness in contemporary practices of life creating an unlimitedly compost of art presentation and special events about media as spaces for classic and modern thoughts. Experimenting for new possibilities of techniques and aesthetic to produce an experience that connects and stimulates the critical mind of spectators for questioning their own core value of live through all ordinary perceptions in each context.
DE-SIGN
CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ECONOMIC DISCOURSE
Artistic practice is a tool of power >> therefore the purposes of study the art world and Design is not only study about beauty, composition, identity, image, functional objects or new media >> but is the visual culture studies about discourse and power >> to understand the shift of modern to post-modern paradigm >> natural of reality goodness and beauty can be diverse, complex and dynamic >> more freedom to artistic overlapping practice through multiple discourse >> to be creative >> negotiable >> protest >> or >> conspiracy >> or become presence and absence Our missions are to inquire about the relationship of complex factors in society >> the analysis of visual culture as media text to connotation world (theory, history, ideology) >> how society constructed the specific meaning >> ex. between globalization and locality >> between high - low habitus and lifestyle >> between tradition value and contemporary value >> between the center and margin >> between a company and the consumers >> between the producer and the user >> between artistic object and audients etc. The understanding of societal complex factors prompt us to questions >> how we are as the product of society? >> part of many discourse and power >> how we deliver “critical message” >> as art / as design / as mass communication strategy / as alternative media / or as social anthropology research etc. >> to balance in being responsive to economic, social or culture value >> make a specific meaning of life as proactive citizen >> participate in making a life and society that we can acknowledge.
CREATIVE ENTERPRISE
CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
To be the open space for graduate students to develop their research capabilities utilizing diverse education applications together with information design in various contexts such as workplace, community, cyberspace, team and individual support life-long learning for Learning Organization, and Knowledge Management. The scope of this LAB covers theories and practices in humanizing the enterprises with regards to learning process, awareness building, social responsibilities, human resources development, creativity and innovation building, including environmental studies, and cooperative education to be the enterprise drivers towards change in the turbulent environment.
INFORMATIVE CULTURE
CENTER FOR AESTHETIC INFORMATION ANALYSIS
1. investigating the right information management and 2. organizing information structure and all of the involved procedures. Problems that are common in information technology are estimated by utilizing it as the implementation for communication. Our research also gives mainly importance to Human Center Design. It is also aimed at researching and reserving the wisdom focused on information design to serve the community with an abundance of creativity, and good conscience.
DIGITAL GRAPHIC DESIGN
Artistic Practice is not a mere craftsmanship activities but it is the sociology of artistic discourse. This exhibition shows both 2 dimension and audiovisual media in the context of new media created and inspired by postmodern concepts theories and disciplines using the fundamental concept of communication and interpretation in semiotic theory; cultural code; history of perception; identity, image and artistic media as the sign system connect between discourse and power. Culture as fundamental interpretation framework through representation theory; the review on art and graphic design histories linking the context of artistic media in terms of art or design objects to advertising or marketing communication
SENSE OF GOD
Man was created to be reasonable. They have the right to follow their own satisfaction; otherwise think and choose. This is a reflection of intelligence and freedom of God. Man is created in righteousness. Man is created to the same contact. This reflects his nature as a third sector, his love and sector. Human relationship is with God. Today we also show his nickname of the Lord. However, we show the scars of sin. Out with the emotional, moral, social and physical.
experiment C
hyperactive society focus
an electronic magazine that writes about the process that reviews all the area for the content or how to obtain the message content with a need to realize about the connotation issue. This magazine is managed in the form of code or symbols which is interpreted to reflect society. The process is in thought experiments and trial procedures. In a practice pattern they start to find ways of looking at issues of interest. They would also have to provide a method for answering questions and wanting to know the truth in hyperactive societies.
MADgazine
This is not a magazine
MAD-gazine is a part of academic activities for MAD students to practically study and produce the scholarly works in Media Ethnography and Visualizing through Cultural Study exploring and investigating around political, economical, societal issues including the use of visual language, and new media with the emphasis on Thai context. MAD-gazine is seen as the alternative learning approach trying to produce and to create academic works with critical contents in interdisciplinary areas. With the attempts to open the new learning perspective regarding media studies, MAD-gazine aims at being an academic journal and visual text to present about media studies present the analyzed phenomenon of everyday life to encourage the awareness in different critical issues for public critically think and debate about power play at different level of society.
filmSPACE
space for new activities
not a just image. just an image. Jean-luc Godard filmSPACE is an attempt to restore cinema to the public in Chiang Mai. Film enthusiasts can come together and watch films in an open-air theater weekly. Come have a cup of coffee and lie down under the stars and just watch films discussion to follow each screening of feature films and experimental work. Screening in every Saturday at 06:30 pm. | 3rd floor | Roof | Media Arts and DesignCMU Art Center | Chiang Mai University
AUDIO VISUAL
The interactive features allow audiences to influence content, image and sounds through narrative structure, social critiques, significant analysis, and concept design along with design principle and techniques such as lighting, editing, composition and aesthetics.
INFORMATION DESIGN
An interdisciplinary field to create experience through valuable, compelling, and empowering information for target audience. With the emphasis on digital technology, students learn ways of organizing and presenting data / information as well as develop new ones through research on critical issues and organization of alphabet, location, and time to name a few keeping in mind clear communication, and the phenomena of information overload, information anxiety, media literacy and technological overload.
WEB DESIGN
Internet phenomenon has affected the behavior of information consumers. Media design in the modern world need to be skilled to create a website in response to those different needs. This course is to fulfill the learners with knowledge and make them acquainted to different tools used in designing and analyze a web site such as required principles, process, development including create an infrastructure supporting the creativity in providing suitable services.
MAD Alliances
the land foundation / faculty of fine arts cmu / yonyaengsoontaree and friends / minimal gallery / pongnoi art space / mute mute studio / midnight university