กขค 2009

" Yet Another Roadside Attraction"

The Billboard Project Yet Another Roadside Attraction

The Billboard Project

Yet Another Roadside Attraction

The Inspiration:

About four years ago, when Lamar Advertising first started installing digital billboards, I was driving past one such sign as they were running a screen test. They were the sort of stock pictures that come with the operating system on a personal computer: marbles, a bridge over a body of water at sunset, a field of flowers, and a back drop of a blue sky. While all of these photos were familiar, in fact stock wallpaper images on my pc, they carried a striking resonance when displayed on a billboard. I can attribute this affect to the simple deviation from advertising that created an element of the unexpected. Here was a space that normally tells you what to consume stripped of any such intent, giving viewers random images to enjoy. This has been an experience I’ve waned to replicate on some level and share with others.

The Project:

Both sides of a digital billboard have been privately acquired for a continuous period of twenty-four hours for the purpose of displaying sight specific work. The show will run from midnight on Friday, October 1, 2010 and will come to an end midnight Saturday, October 2, 2010. During this time pictures having nothing to do with advertising will be displayed. The images will cycle on a ten second interval and can be non-repeating for up to twelve hours. A variety of artists are being invited to contribute work to this roadside gallery entitled Yet Another Roadside Attraction. This will be a sort of vaudeville roadside gallery/show.

The Parameters:

Artists being invited to participate in Yet Another Roadside Attraction will be given a segment of time on a digital billboard of one hour where they can display art concepts geared toward this particular medium. The project will consist of twelve segments repeating once over a 24-hour period. Each segment has the capacity to display 360 different pictures over a 60-minute period, giving frames a ten second rotation. To lengthen the time an image is displayed, it would simply be repeated in ten second increments for the desired length of time. The digital billboards can be seen from cars passing by that will have visual contact with the canvas for twenty to thirty seconds (two to three images), and from spots under the billboards where people can stop and watch the images for as long as they like. Keeping this in mind, the most effective images of the project will work well in conjunction with one another and also as singular moments. This space is being rented out from Lamar Advertising who has a right to refuse images submitted for display. If there is any doubt as to whether or not the content of a submission will be accepted, the concept can presented for review. The requirements for image size and quality can be viewed in the jpg file named Image Parameters.

Images must be submitted no later than Monday, August 23, 2010 on CD, DVD, or jump drive and should be mailed to the following address:

The Billboard Project

Attn: David Morrison

3119 West Moore Street

Richmond, VA 23230

You may contact me with any questions at 804.648.2422.

Resources:

I have attached files of previous creative billboard endeavors as well as photos of the site location. The following link to Lamar’s website might also give you some helpful tips. HYPERLINK "http://www.lamaroutdoor.com/index.html" http://www.lamaroutdoor.com/index.html

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Then click on Digital Displays

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copy cat 2009

chess bike 2007

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Visual Art Tutor ปรับพื้นฐานความรู้ ไม่ว่าคุณจะมีพื้นฐานความรู้มามากน้อยแค่ไหน ถนัดสื่ออะไร หรือไม่มีความรู้มาก่อนเลยแต่สนใจจะศึกษาด้านงานศิลปะแนวร่วมสมัย (Conceptual Art, Installation Art หรือ Mixed Media) มีสอนตั้งแต่กระบวนการคิด การสร้างและพัฒนาผลงาน จนถึงกระบวนการจัดแสดงงานนิทรรศการ

Visual Art Tutor สอนการแก้ปัญหาจากปัญหาที่เกิดขึ้นจริง การคิดที่สร้างสรรค์หลุดจากกรอบอย่างมีสมดุล ต่อยอดความคิดเดิม และพัฒนาผลงานก่อนก้าวเข้าสู่พื้นที่แสดงงานจริง ซึ่งต่างจากสถาบันสอนศิลปะทั่วไป

Teacher : อาจารย์ผู้สอน

อ.ท้อป - ไผทวัฒน์ จ่างตระกูล www.topchangtrakul.com

อ.ท้อป จ่างตระกูล ศิลปินที่ได้รับการยอมรับในระดับนานาชาติ กับผลงานสไตล์ conceptual art ที่มีสไตล์เป็นเอกลักษณ์เฉพาะตัว และมีผลงานการแสดงนิทรรศการศิลปะอยู่มากมายตามแกลเลอรี่ร่วมสมัยของไทยและต่างประเทศ

อ.ท้อป จ่างตระกูล จบการศึกษาปริญญาตรีสาขาวิจิตรศิลป์ จากมหาวิทยาลัยซานฟรานซิสโก และปริญญาโทสาขาศิลปะ จากสถาบันศิลปะซานฟรานซิสโกในปี 1998 และได้กลับมาเป็นอาจารย์พิเศษ สอนวิชาศิลปะในเชิงทัศนศิลป์ ที่มหาวิทยาลัยกรุงเทพ มหาวิทยาลัยเทคโนโลพระจอมเกล้าธนบุรี และจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย ซึ่งเป็นการสอนศิลปะที่เน้นไปในเรื่องของการใช้กระบวนการทางความคิด ซึ่งเป็นที่นิยมและถือเป็นหัวใจหลักของงานศิลปะร่วมสมัย

และด้วยประสบการณ์การทำงานศิลปะที่ผ่านมา อ.ท้อป จ่างตระกูล จึงมีความตั้งใจที่อยากจะถ่ายทอดความรู้ให้แก่ผู้ที่มีความสนใจ และรักในงานศิลปะ ตั้งแต่กระบวนการคิด การสร้างและพัฒนาผลงาน จนถึงการจัดแสดงงานนิทรรศการ เพื่อให้ผู้ที่สนใจเข้าเรียนได้บรรลุเป้าหมายตามที่ตั้งใจ

Assistant Teacher : ผู้ช่วยอาจารย์ผู้สอน

อ.เบนซ์ - ภาณุพงศ์ เอี่ยมเตชะ จบการศึกษาปริญญาตรีจากมหาวิทยาลัยกรุงเทพ สาขาออกแบบนิเทศศิลป์

มีประสปการณ์การทำงานกับหอศิลป์ต่างๆมาแล้วมากมาย จะเป็นผู้ที่คอยแนะนำ-ช่วยเหลือ เรื่องเครื่องมือและโปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์ที่สามารถนำมาใช้ในงานได้อย่างเหมาะสม

ค่าเล่าเรียน

8,000บาท / 6 ครั้ง / คอร์ส

สอน 2 ชั่วโมงต่อ 1 ครั้ง / สัปดาห์

(นอกจากนี้ยังมีคอร์สติวพิเศษสำหรับนักเรียนและนักศึกษาที่ต้องการความพร้อมก่อนสอบ หรือก่อนส่งงาน)

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Artscene TV 225/1 สุขุมวิท 31 กรุงเทพมหานคร 10100

E-mail: duchamp75@hotmail.com

Tel.081-558 2525

ทุกวันจันทร์ - วันศุกร์ 9.00-17.00น

I can be your Visual Art Tutor!

Visual Art Tutor runs by Mr. Top Changtrakul, a renowned Thai contemporary artist and art lecturer with bags full of experience!

Why do you need a Visual Art Tutor ?

1) For those students who have difficulties in executing an idea and transforming ideas into creative artpiece.

Because, most students do not know how to developed their ideas correctly. They think that creative means creating whatever comes into their head. Which is alright if you time and energy to make all the pieces that are floating between your ears. Visual art Tutor will teach you the secret of how to recognize and only developed your best ideas, by doing it this way it will safe your time and energy.

As I have learned through my years of making art and teaching is that creative is not necessary mean creating. Creative could also meant fixing one idea until it is unsinkable and attacking the enemy by using all forces.

Visual Art Tutor is a one on one tutorial which means that you will be receiving my total attention. I will be there holding your hands and walk you through the obstacles as if you were my precious cargo. I also know that all students are different from one another and I am willing to find the perfect perscription to your creative needs.

2) For those who needs to prepare their Visual/ Art portfolio to study aboard. I could be very helpful to you. I am artist who has spent more than two decades in the US and has exhibited in many countries. I know very well what overseas art schools are looking for. I can help you build a perfect portfolio! Helping you to get into an good art school would be my pleasure.

The 6 sessions will include
- Introduction to Conceptual art,
- Installation,
- Video art, and
- your own projects

About the Teacher : Top Changtrakul

I got my BFA from the University of San Francisco with a degree in Business and Sculpture. I, then went on and received my MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute with a degree in New Genres (New Media and Peformance) I then moved to New York City and taught at an after school program for almost 5 years. I am now a part time teacher at Bangkok University and at KMUT. For more on me, please click www.topchangtrakul.com

Teacher Assistant

He graudated from Bangkok University with a Media degree and he is exceptionlly good with computer, need I say more. He was also my assistant for 3 years and he gave me plenty of good advices on my various projects. I am sure that he will to do the same for you too.

Tuition

8,000 baht / 6 classes 2 hours per class. (from Monday to Friday)

Visual Art Tutor is conveniently located at Sukumvit 31 Road, near Emporium Dept. and Asoke BTS Station.

For further info. please contact

Top Changtrakul

Artscenetv 225/1 Sukumvit 31 Road,

Bangkok 10110

email: duchamp75@hotmail.com

Tel 081.558.2525

Teaching Profile

As a graduate of Art Institute, San francisco, I have a 10 year teaching experience on pre-school, elementary schools and higher education levels, in both Thailand and USA. I know that art can boost confidence and self respect to those who practice it. Presently, I teach part-time at Bangkok University and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. This position enables me to provide these students with creative thinking in mastering their skills. I am challenged to be creative, nurturing and most of all, patient. I try to boost self-confidence of these students who often have self-doubts. I believe that my teaching will made a positive impact and will shape the character of my students for years to come.

Moreover, I am also a conceptual artist with various solo exhibitions in New York and Bangkok, therefore, I also have real experience in the business world of art and understand the qualities of art that attract the international art scenes.

Education

1995-1998 Master of Fine Arts in New Genres/ Performances,

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA

1990-1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture and minor in Business:

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

Teaching Experiences

2009-Present Communication Design Program at KMUT

prepare graduating students for entry-level work as designers in

the communication industries or in design- related fields.

2005- 2008 Art lecturer at Bangkok University, Bangkok

Teach Visual communication I and III classes. Develop students’

creativity and self expression through various art forms and media.

2003-2005 Art lecturer at Silpakorn International University, Bangkok

Taught Video Art and Installation Art

Introduced students to Video Art and Installation Art theories and practice.

Assisted students in problem solving and enhanced confidence in their art making skills.

2002-2003 Art teacher at P.S. 124 Silas B Dutcher School, Brooklyn, New York

Taught at this After School Art Program for children age 8-12.

Demonstrate children on a variety of art materials and tools such as

watercolors, pen, pencil,clay, fabric,canvas and paper.

Organized exhibitions of student work in various places.

2001-2004 Art teacher at Children International Workshop, New York, New York

Taught small art classes for children age between 3 -5. Organized various

activities e.g. park visits and production of costumes for Halloween,

Christmas and Easter Egg Hunt occasions

Solo Exhibitions

2010 “More of the same”, Whitespace Gallery Bangkok, Thailand

2007 “Dream, Chess, and routine”, H Gallery Bangkok, Thailand

2005 “Xeno Biota”, H Gallery Bangkok, Thailand

2003 “The Angarus Project”, H Gallery Bangkok, Thailand

2001 “New Inventions II”, Lance Fung Gallery, NY.

1999 “Recent Inventions”, Lance Fung Gallery, NY.

Group Exhibitions

2009 “Painting by Numbers” Sombat Permpoon Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2009 “Truelies”, Chula Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand

2009 “We are all millionaires”, A.O.D art space, Jakarta, Indonesia

2009 “Bangkok Banana”, Bangkok, Thailand

2009 “Bangkok 226”, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand

2009 “Trigger”, Whitespace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

2007 “Art Aids” Bangkok, Thailand

2007 “Project Zero” Bangkok, Thailand

2005 “Ssamziespace”, Korea

2004 “The Snow Show”, Lapland, Finland

2003 “The Snow Show’, 50th Venice Biennale

2003 “The Invisible Thread”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

2003 “The Power of Suggestion”, Di Rosa Preserve, Napa,CA

2003 “8th Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition”, University of Hawaii, HI

2003 “Rovaniemi Museum”, Rovaniemi, Finland

2002 “Aquatic Creations”, Brooklyn, NY

2002 “Brewster Project”, Brewster Villege, NY.

2001 “Site Unseen”, Hopper House, Nyack, NY.

2001 “Parallel Crossings”, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea.

2000 “Master of Fine Arts 2000”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

1999 “Hunt”, OCCC, Newark NJ.

Curatorial Projects

2003 “Ars Arctica 2003”, Guest Curator, Rovaniemen Taidemuseo,

Rovaniemi, Finland

Selected Reviews

Art4D issue 96 by Supitcha Tovivich, August 03

Bangkok Post Out look Section, by Usnisa Sukhsvasti, July 13,2003

Lapin Lansa by Seija Lappaiainen, January 17, 2003

Lapin Lansa by Marjukka Vakkuri, January 16,2003

Art in America by Elizabeth Schambelan, December 2001

Art forum by Alexi Worth, August 2001

Dialogue Magazines by Sirin Thada, June 2001

Artnet.com by David Ebony, April 2001

New York Times by Holland Cotter, March 30, 2001

New York Times by Ken Johnson, March 23, 2001

Dialogue Magazines by Irene Violet Small, August 1999

Time Out Magazine, Critics Picks, August 1999

Pieces from More of the same 2010

1)Self Portrait 2008

Photo print

16"20"

2) My motto 2009

Neon

4"x48"x9"

It is a very crude Thai phrase written in neon. The translation reads " By being busy with

your hands you will be rich, but by being busy with your dick you will be poor.

3) Sketches 2007-2009

Paper

12"x18"

Sketches for me are like secrets and it is also a good way of clearing out my head. For this piece, I got over 50 of my most memorable sketches and scan them on top of each other until the text is unreadable.

4) My will 2008

Photo collage

40"x40"

In this piece, I gathered up all my precious belongings and then categorize them into a piechart.

This includes, my second hand vintage t-shirts, my art books, my dharma books, my chessboard and my most beloved stamp collections. Then I decided who will receive my belongings in each category after I passed away, as can be seen in the arrow pointing to particular persons. For my body, I would donate it to the Red Cross. For my art works, it would be given to my wife first then

my daughter and my sister and brother.

5) Dream number 5.10.08

This short film is based on my dream. I produced it exactly as I saw it in my dream. In this piece I am attempting to understand and psycho-analyze what is lying in my subconscious and my repressed feeling while I am sleep.

6) He who must be obeyed

Candle

24"x13"

In this piece I am using a penis as a metaphor for creativity. I have to obey my penis as much as I have to obey my art making skills. Penis can be use in many different ways. One of the best way to use your penis is to share it with the one you love. When you are making deep love, you are in the zone. Your body and mind and your penis are one. You do not think about the future or the past but you are completely absorb in the present . It is the same as when I am involving in my own works.

7) XR4000 2010

video 2 mins /14sec

8 episodes

Below is the description for the XR4000

By simply standing in front of the XR4000.The XR 4000 will automatically calculate your good

deeds and bad deeds, and then divided by how many times you have masturbated.

The result will then determine where your souls will be reincarnated after you died.

This piece is based on collection of photographs. I went to my closet and selected over 1,000

pictures and line them up as a sequence of my life, starting from 1 year old up to now. Then

I used a computer program to generate a haunting effect.

8) What if 2009-2010

Video animation

13 mins

“What if “is composed of more than 80 episodes of collages from more than 50 fashion magazines. The reason why I used fashion magazines is because I need faces. The second reason is because fashion magazines contain a good arsenal that always stir up my imagination.

In each episode there is a spoon flying into the nostril. Once the spoon disappeared into the nostril. The original image starting to take an unexpected turn. I can honestly say that “ What if” is the result of my instinct and my spontaneity.

New Invention II @ Lance Fung Gallery New York 2001

New Invention II @ Lance Fung Gallery, NYC 2001

Duchampaign puns made of street find and garage sale items by Thai artist, Top Changtrakul, are included in his first solo exhibition at Lance Fung Gallery. Chosen from among his class at San Francisco Art Institute, Top dazzled his visiting professor, Lance Fung, with a sardonic blend of Eastern and Western cultures in fantasy fetish works parading as an archive of "lost" inventions.

New Inventions II displays a series of performances, videos, and objects, through which the public explores the world's desires for control. Flirts with wishfulness, destiny, one's inner most desire, past lives, happiness and attainment are frustrated by Top's logic of serendipity and fate. Irene Violet Small writes, "Issues of longing, uncertainty and access form a major theme of the show, and Changtrakul is most poignant in the inventions which sharply juxtapose a sense of scientific objectiveness with the elusive and seductive realm of the unknown."

A search to discover the unknown is staged as an inventor's Bangkok studio and in actions documented throughout Bangkok. A great effort, the entire site of Top's "inventor's studio;" drawings, gadgets, and lights have been excised and shipped from Bangkok and obssessively recreated for public display at Lance Fung Gallery. The entire gallery space is transformed into an enlarge Thai outhouse in which we find televised solicitations, testimonials, instructions, actions and many inventions with all their successes and failings.

New Inventions II helps us to return to a timeless and playful consciousness where past, present and future are as confused as fact,fiction and faketion. So sit back, relax and watch as Top Changtrakul, the inventor of our inventor, delights us with his re-invention of invention itself coming up next at Lance Fung Gallery

JK2000, 1999 Scale, keyboard, LED, motor, wires, batteries 10” x 9.5” x 6” The JK2000 allowed the users to communicate with their past lives for the first time. Unfortunately, due to the lack of technology the users could only go back to 53 lives. The new JK8000 allows the users to communicate with 5,373 lives JK8000, 1999 Scales, keyboard, LED, motors, wires, batteries 20” x 10” x 7” Due to the success of the JK2000, a machine that allows the users to communicate with their past lives, the JK8000 was developed. This machine allows users to pick their next life. Simply speak into the telephone indicating what you want to be for your next life, and go to sleep. While dreaming, the users will be contacted by an agent telling them if their choices are available or not.

DS300, 1999
Wood, graph paper, wires, pencils, dial box
50” x 5” x 50”

The DS300 allows the user to change his or her destiny. By simply placing the right hand on to the panel, the current of 20,000 volts will slowly burn the old skin away while creating the new destiny. Unfortunately, it is not yet equipped with a destiny controller, so the users have no control of their new destiny.

ZR1000, 1999
Goggles, wires, plastic pump, feather
7.5” x 10” x 5”

The ZR1000 allowed the users to follow the spirit of loved one by simply placing the white goggles over the deceased’s eyes within 24 hours of their death. The user then places the black goggles on themselves. The ZR1000 will automatically deduct 5 years out of the user’s life for every 2 minutes spent in the spirit world.

CR250, 2001

Cloth, earpiece, powder, metal, nail

16” x 16”

*CR250- A device that allow the user to communicate with the creator.
*EP500- A powerful translator that allow the user to understand the language of the universe.
*Powder- It is an anesthetic potion that allows the user to feel no physical pain.
*Cloth- A special cloth that will stop bleeding immediately and will release medication to speed up the healing process

10 Rules to follow for 20 days before using the CR250

1) Drink at least 15 glasses of water daily.
2) Get up no later than 7 a.m. and go to bed no later 9 p.m.
3) Avoid red meat/ preferably eat only vegetarian diet.
4) Avoid heavy exercise/ preferably take a light 15 minute walk in the morning.
5) Avoid all entertainment (television is included)
6) Avoid all drugs and stimulants (coffee and cigarettes included)
7) No eating after sunset.
8) No killing living beings.
9) No sexual contact or self-stimulation.
10) Talk to yourself daily.

Directions for using the CR250

1) Clean both ears thoroughly, preferably with warm water and non-perfumed soap.
2) Pour the powder generously into right ear. Stop only when tingling sensation is replaced by a
feeling of numbness.
3) Rest for 10 minutes.
4) Press the sharp end of the CR250 into the right ear. Wait for the light to turn on, then the user
must jam the CR250 as deep as possible stop only when hear the loud pop.
5) Take out the CR250. Use the given towel to wipe off blood.
6) Place the EP500 into the right ear.
7) You will be slip into an unconscious state for the next 135 minutes. Within that state you will
see a door and a window. Do not open the door, you must open the window and climb through
it. You will enter into an empty room. Only take the orange seat that is located on the third row
and wait for you name to be called.
8) If the Creator does not contact you within the next 50,000 heartbeats, the same procedures
must be repeated from the beginning.

BT500, 1999
Scale, motor, wires, batteries
90” x 90”

The purpose of the BT500 is to allow the user to gather like minded people. Simply step inside the circle. The BT500 will automatically adjust itself to the user’s personality and outlook on life. It will send out a magnetic pulse within a radius of 50 miles to bring the people with a similar outlook on life to the circle.

AG200, 1999
Baseball mask, colander, goggles, motor, wires, plate
10” x 9.5” x 8.5”

The purpose of AG200 is to increase the user’s patience and tolerance while in an argument. First, it is equipped with voice calmer, a device that alters the voice, which will automatically adjust itself to any arguments. Second, it is equipped with a jammer which will prohibit an opponent from completing a sentence. Third, it is equipped with a FS signal which can cause severe migraine and impotence if aimed at the opponent. Lastly, it is equipped with an eye shutter, which will allow the user to sleep between arguments.

ID500, 1999
Wig, plastic nose, eyebrows
9” x 22” x 3”

The ID500 is a group of devices that allow the user to change his or her race. Within the first 3 minutes, the user’s skin will change color according to the item that he picked, followed by a change in his memory and perspective. The male user will experience lengthening in his private part.

CB200, 1999
Plastic comb
6” x 1.5” x 0.15”

The CB200 allows the user to turn himself into a lady’s man. Simply comb hair with the CB200. The CB200 will automatically adjust the user’s posture and wardrobe. It will update the user with the latest pick-up lines. In addition it is equipped with the Kama Sutra, which will pick the best position for every situation.

For more information please go to www.topchangtrakul.com