The Project Room, BRIC House, located in the Brooklyn NY Cultural District will house Bundith’s Project “DIGITAL (OPEN) HOUSE. This is an interactive installation resembling a digital clock to explore the concept of migration, gentrification (which this Brooklyn area is undergoing presently), and displacement. The project will feature a display of multiple styles of houses on a sequence of small computer monitors. Using a selection of ten house types from various cultures and location, the work simplified their construction as a series of line to build and rebuild each form of house through the process of time. As you the viewer walks passed each house, motion sensors on the monitors make a transition from one to another style house, just by the moving there is a construction/destruction of the lines. A Thai stilted bungalow can be created into a New England Cottage. You may remember Bundith from his Wayfaring project that directed all visitors and New Yorkers to the outdoor art of their city.
HIS ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Originally from Thailand and now living in the US, I have reflected on ever-changing social, economic, and political situations, particularly in the framework of globalization. Carefully considering the history of a culture or a place, I analyze and synthesize these situations in order to develop artwork that reconsiders new identities in the globalization era. Through interactive media installations, I design systems for sharing and communicating that explore the transformation from fact‐based orientation to imagination. This parallels my own transformation as an artist working in the East and the West as well as my move from traditional to new media. Furthermore, it demonstrates a transmodal transformation that I argue is inherent in new media.
I consider my artwork, not only in terms of subject and media, but also in terms of function. I am particularly interested in intergenerational communication, and recognize myself as part—not the sole creator—of the social circuit I explore. I invite the audience to participate, to feel, to think, and to build their own experience through both old and new media. Through my work, I hope to connect with other people and discover something about my position in the world, by engaging a diversity of perceptions, uncovering cultural meaning as it affects our day-to-day lives.