As a continuation of the projects deep immersion: creative collaborations and deep immersion: scientific serendipity, in 2000, ANAT entered into a partnership with the Melbourne based organisation Asialink to support new media residencies in Asia. These explored possibilities for collaboration and exchange between artists and organisations in the Asia region.

Chris Caines (2000), thailand

Chris Caines (image) is an artist working in online and disk-based multimedia, as well as video and sound. He has been exhibiting widely since the early nineties in national and international galleries including MoMA in New York, The Tate, UK and the State Galleries of NSW and QLD.

During his residency at Chulalongkorn University, Caines was able to research and develop various ideas for writing, video and on-line projects. He developed a new online work based loosely around elements of Thai history, weaving them into a piece using the structure of classical Thai textiles as the form of the narrative. He also collaborated with the non-profit, artspace, Project 304, in Bangkok, in the design and development of their website (http://project304.net, no longer active) as well as planning an outdoor installation project and site specific video works scheduled for realisation in 2002.

James Verdon (2001), Thailand

James Verdon works primarily with digital time based technologies. At the time of the residency, Verdon was Coordinator of Electronic Design and Interactive Media at Swinburne University of Technology and completing a PhD in Media Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne. While undertaking his residency at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Verdon produced work for public art exhibition titled Shopping at the Siam Discovery Centre, undertook a new digital video work that was screened at both the Bangkok International Film Festival and the 3rd Bangkok Experimental Film Festival.

He also produced a collaborative piece with Michael Shaowanasai as part of the Month of Photography event in Bangkok. James' residency examined in a comprehensive way, the facets of screen space as it relates to both physical and virtual geographies.

Funded by the Australian Network for Art and Technology, the Australia Council and the Australian Embassy, Bangkok.

Websites

http://www.caos.org.au/members/galleries/ANAT/pages/page01.htm
http://serendipity.anat.org.au
http://diss.anat.org.au/
http://dicc.anat.org.au/