NIPAN ORANNIWESNA (Thailand)


Nipan received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Printmaking) from Silpakorn University before obtaining a Monbusho scholarship to further study art at Tokyo Geidai in Japan. Currently, he resides, works, and teaches art in Bangkok.

He creates art through various media, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, moving images, mixed media, and site-specific installations. His work explores the intersection of social issues and historical research, delving into human relationships with physical and conceptual spaces, personal and collective memories, city maps, and the geopolitics of nation-states. He addresses themes such as the notion of home, identity, displacement, and the interaction between viewers and art, focusing on the space between the audience and the artwork.

His work has been exhibited in numerous venues and exhibitions, including the Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai (2023), Gwangju Biennale (2018), Singapore Biennale (2013), Setouchi Triennale (2013), Biennale of Sydney (2012), and the Thai Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007), among others. He contributed to the establishment of the Bangkok University Gallery (BUG) and curated exhibitions such as the Brand New Art Project, "Surface" (2020), "Treasure" (2023), and "Constellation" (2024).

Simultaneously, he has a keen interest in film and moving images, spending a significant amount of time watching movies of various genres and from diverse locations.

KEIKO SEI (Japan)

Keiko Sei is a writer, curator and educator in media art/activism.

Her curatorial projects include "The Media Are With Us!: The Role of Television in the Romanian Revolution" (Budapest, 1990), "Eastern Europe TV & Politics" (Buffalo New York, 1993), "POLITIK-UM/new Engagement," (Prague, 2002), “Re-designing East,” (Stuttgart, Gdansk, Budapest, Seoul, 2009-2013). She writes for publications worldwide including springerin (Austria), worked as an editor of documenta 12 magazine and coordinator of Southeast Asia region for “documenta 12 magazines project”, and has published books including "Von der Burokratie zur Telekratie " (Germany) and "Terminal Landscape" (Czech Republic).

She has given numerous workshops worldwide and taught at schools including FaVU VUT Brno (Czech Republic) and HFG Karlsruhe (Germany). Currently she works to provide film and video education in Myanmar, which she started in 2002, and has helped establishing Wathann Film Festival/Institute.

MANOTHAM TIAMTIEBRAT (Thailand)

Manotham Tiamtiebrat (casual 'Pop') despite a long time career, he still regards himself as a young and new generation movie critic who exposed and expanding a new frontier in writing film review, that pointing out there are far more boundaries and dimensions of cinema beyond the main-stream. Besides working restlessly on writing yet he never seems to get tired, also working as a lecturer for training work-shop programs and in film-school, beside his enthusiasm to discover new talents as a jury member in film festivals.