FAAMAI Digital Arts Hub at Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University invites you to an exhibition
"Timirbhu: the New World Order"
by Nakrob Moonmanas
Opening with a panel discussion “Literature / Digital / Art: Connected borders?” on 22 September 2022, 16.00 hrs.
at William Warren Library, Jim Thompson Art Center.
Timirbhu: the New World Order is an exhibition about Thai Literature “Traibhumikatha” the story of the three planes of existence written by Phraya Lithai of Sukhothai (Maha Thammaracha I). This Literature from Sukhothai period portrays Buddhist cosmology that consisted of different realms, including Heaven and Hell, and the story of the birth and the fall of humankind. The artist created the artworks with an inspiration to connect the void between literature and technology, the distant past and the contemporary world. The artist explored the subject by using a computational linguistics approach to analyze the literature and create a new language model to rewrite a new version of “Traibhumikatha”,
co-created with Asst. Prof. Dr.Attapol Thamrongrattanarit and students from Language and Information Technologies major, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.