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Sahapon Chootinan

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Sahapon Chootinan

Sahapon Chootinan born in 1999. Lives and works in Chiang Mai. Sahapon Chootinan is an artist and creative practitioner who works with various media, including motion graphics, photography, still images, digital collages, programming, and interactive media. By utilizing different types of media, he can choose the most suitable ones to tell the stories he is interested in and convey them in the desired style. The combination of storytelling techniques from different disciplines allows him to create a rich narrative experience. The artist is fascinated by the methods of narrating truth, understanding, and the gaps in memories. He interprets these elements in ways that stimulate viewers’ imagination, resulting in the creation of new meanings or new perceptions of truth. The meanings and narratives constructed through data and imagination reflect the fluidity of reality and fiction. I also strive to comprehend and manipulate the control and manipulation of data sets from original narratives, intending to reveal the underlying truths of the story and explore the possibilities of understanding the course of events through these conceptual approaches.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Media Arts and Design, Faculty of Fine Art, Chiang Mai University, Chiang  Mai, Thailand.

Project & Exhibition

Grasshopper 2023, Beyond the Valle, Panic room, Chiang Mai ,Thailand

The Unarchiver (2023) 2023, Point of No Conern ,Maiiam Pavillion ,Thailand Beinnale 2023 ,Chiang Rai Edition ,Chiang Rai ,Thailand 

Flight A Cake 2023, Media Wanderer ,Syntopia ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

Oversight 2021 TALK-TALK-VILION x Untitled for Film, Untitled for us / Untitled for them ,Programme #1 ,Bangkok ,Thailand

The Unarchiver 2021 ,Whiplash Exhibition, Chiang Mai University Art Center ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

The Unarchiver 2021 ,THIRD SPACE Exhibition, Lido Art Space ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

The Unarchiver 2023 ,S.O.E 2023 ” We Trade Everything”Art festivals, Khon Kaen ,Thailand

Model 250A (TheArchiver) ,2022 ,lnwza Exhibition ,Chiang Mai Cultural Centre ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

NIA (National Intelligent Agency) Program ,2021 , Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai ,Thailand

STATUS – Subaltern ,2020 , Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai ,Thailand

 MUDS ,2020 ,Machine Exhibition ,Chiang Mai University Art Center ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

Shelf Express ,2021 ,Portapak ,Weave Artisan Society ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

Sustra ,2021 ,Portapak ,Weave Artisan Society ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand

Emotional Damage ,Collaboration ,SWC_EXHIBITION_1 ,2022  ,Addict Art Studio ,Chiang Mai ,Thailand 

Work / INDEX 

Grasshopper

2023 ,December / Installation & Video / Beyond the Valle / Panic room / Chiang Mai ,Thailand

The Unarchiver (2023)

2023 ,December / Interactive Installation / MAIIAM Pavilion | Point of No Concern: return to the rhizomatic state / Thailand Beinnale

Flight A Cake

2023 ,July / Interactive Installation / Syntopia National Symposium on Media Arts and Design

Oversight

2021 ,April / Interactive Installation / BKK BIENNILE 2020 / at Venue: 5th Floor, RDX Offsite

The Unarchiver​

2021 / Digital Collage Exhibition / Whiplash / Lido Art Space / S.O.E 2023 “We Trade Everything”

Model250A (The Archiver)

2022 / Whiplash / lnwza Exhibition

NIA (National Intelligent Agency) Program

2021 / Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai ,Thailand

STATUS - SUBALTERN

2020 ,March / Video Art

ShelfExpess

2021 ,March / Interactive Installation Art / Portapak Exhibition

MUDs (Multiple User Dimension)

2020 ,March / Video Art

Emotional Damage

2021 ,March / Interactive Installation Art / Portapak Exhibition
Playground / AUDIO VISUAL / INDEX 

Drive w/ Brother

Drive w/ Brother   Drives Through Memory: A Conversation This video work takes the form of a surreal drive through fragmented landscapes—3D scanned spaces from

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ASS-SKI Undefined

ASS-SKI: Undefined” Live Visual by sahapon (pnine)  Live Sound  by nona, Goethe-Institut Thailand, 2025, bangkok ASS-SKI: Undefined” presents a collision between structure and its own collapse—when a

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/bɔː˧.rom˧/ — bor-rom

/bɔː˧.rom˧/ — bor-rom Live Audio Visual by sahapon (pnine)  Media Art Building, 2025, bangkok /bɔː˧.rom˧/ — bor-rom[bor-rom-ma-] (adj.) to the utmost, to the extreme, e.g. utterly

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Player 2 Has Entered The Server Live Visual by sahapon (pnine)  Live Sound  by nona, Goethe-Institut Thailand, 2025, bangkok If each program is its own verse —

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TouchDesigner Meetup#1

Touchdesigner MEETUP#1 Live Visual by sahapon (pnine)  Live Sound  by nona, Speaker box, 2025, bangkok I had a workshop topic / INTEGRAING AI INTO THE TOUCHDESIGNER WORKFLOW

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Infecting Cochlear Worm

INFECTING COCHLEAR WORM Live Visual by sahapon (pnine)  Live Sound  by nona, At @noisehouse.latphrao.bkkSunday, 20 April. Beware the new viral worm that manifests in your cochlea. This curious

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HEAR/HEX/HALT

HEAR/HEX/HALT Live Visual by sahapon (pnine)  Live Sound  by nona, Goethe-Institut Thailand, 2025, bangkok Code, as a language that acts within the phygital realm, resonates with one

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Grasshopper

Project Title : Grasshopper

Media & Technique : Digital Collage ,Video Installation

Exhibition/Venue :  Beyond the Valle / Panic room / Chiang Mai ,Thailand

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

“Facade is likened to a wall or partition that can be closed or screened to provide privacy for users, or to separate the area from adjacent buildings or homes. It is also used to maintain a balance between the external and internal spaces of a building.”

The Unarchiver (2023)

Project Title : The Unarchiver (2023)

Media & Technique : Digital Collage ,AI , Interactive Media

Exhibition/Venue : MAIIAM Pavilion | Point of No Concern: return to the rhizomatic state / Thailand Beinnale

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice : *( same as The Unarchiver (2018) )

The earlier work on the previous exhibition site influenced the conception of The Unarchiver. Consider using documented or historical tools to answer questions about inspection for use in control by carrying out an examination of the content’s control t o develop a new set of beliefs and comprehensions. By creating archived documents to be recompiled and woven into new narratives, one can generate new narratives. This is analogous to writing the history of a state of mixed reality, where the real and the imaginary coexist. In exploit of the imagination that the state wants to be archives to control what can and cannot be said in each historical period. However, these evidences are interpreted by the state’s citizens in order to support the set of beliefs that the state would then establish. The objective is not to mislead the audience, but rather to attempt to undermine their structural and ideological foundations. Methodology for examining societal facts that varies depending on individualistic level. The privacy that comprehends the context that appears to criticises the truth’s medium. This works comprise of facts and use the work to question the state’s subversion of created and subverted facts. Information is used as a political tool to portray facts that, in the context of the time, result in a decay of power by design.

The installation is a digital collage. Picture frames with varying contents and specifics are lined up and will be used to hang the artwork. Sometimes it appears that each picture is almost unrelated, while others appear to be very related; however, when put together, and with a thin narrative thread, the audience or viewers are able to piece together hundreds of the stories of each picture. Such assembling all of the story puzzles on this wall with some guidance in which are the experiences of each audience, as is the work of weaving the events on the wall together. Everyone will encounter their differ to varying degrees and for the purpose of framing There is a direct space for individuals to arrange the story themselves, and each individual has a unique preference for reading from left to right or right to left. Each individual could well begin with non-linear approach to order of the works which would results in different subjective experiences.

 

*Computer with AI
*Large LCD Screen
*Small LCD Screen

“This work consists of 4 main parts as follows:

  1. Digital Collage Work:

    • Creation of a comprehensive image using various pictures with different meanings or contents.
    • Establishing connections of meaning between each image.

  2. Small LCD Screen for Text Display:

    • Featuring a small screen displaying text.
    • Used to link text with images in the collage.

  3. Large LCD Screen for Generated Collage:

    • Showcasing a large screen displaying the collage image generated based on AI responses.

  4. Portable Computer for AI Conversation:

    • A portable computer capable of conversing with AI trained on data from the collage.

Functionality of the work:

  • When viewers enter, they start viewing the collage images and establishing connections of meaning between each image.
  • Additionally, emphasis is placed on linking images with text on the small LCD screen.
  • Viewers can ask questions to the AI and engage in conversations about the collage.
  • AI responses are displayed on the small computer screen and forwarded to various parts of the collage on the large screen.
  • The arrangement of responses is distributed across different sections of the collage to highlight the nuanced nature of the answers.

Flight A Cake

Project Title : Flight A Cake

Media & Technique : Digital Collage ,AI , Interactive Media

Exhibition/Venue : Media Wanderer , Science & Technology Park

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

The project involves playing with old archive documents, starting with a visit to antique shops in Chiang Mai province. I found documents from a law firm discarded among the items. These documents seem highly reliable but have been interpreted by a third party, an artist. The artist couldn’t comprehend the events of the legal case, prompting them to experiment and create a piece based on these documents.

Oversight

TALK-TALK-VILION x Untitled for Film

Untitled for us / Untitled for them

Programme #1 Oversight

4 – 10 April 2021

at Venue: 5th Floor, RDX OffsiteOpen: Thru-Sun 4 p.m – 9 p.m

The invention of the internet is a phenomenon which connects the world together and makes data equally accessible for everyone. For this reason, the internet breaks the limit of space, and allows people to communicate across the world.

Turning communication towards the internet, the number of digital population is continually increasing as well as the creation of identity in online platforms. Fill in a form to verify identity is something necessary. Personal information, such as email, phone number, name, and address, have to be exposed, if one wants to access that online platform.

The interaction of the online identity produces massive information which turns the space into big data. Although we cannot see that information, it is always published and preserved on the internet.

Data, therefore, plays a significant role in globalization as it becomes economically valuable. Having data in possession means having authoritative power. The more data one have, the more benefit one get.

 

With or without consent, we turn into digital labourers, producing a great number of data for the use of those who have authority in order to exploit ourselves.”

Oversight – test in black room

Oversight – Installation

Oversight – 4 April 2021

The Unarchiver

Project Title : The Unarchiver

Media & Technique : Digital Collage

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

The earlier work on the previous exhibition site influenced the conception of The Unarchiver. Consider using documented or historical tools to answer questions about inspection for use in control by carrying out an examination of the content’s control t o develop a new set of beliefs and comprehensions. By creating archived documents to be recompiled and woven into new narratives, one can generate new narratives. This is analogous to writing the history of a state of mixed reality, where the real and the imaginary coexist. In exploit of the imagination that the state wants to be archives to control what can and cannot be said in each historical period. However, these evidences are interpreted by the state’s citizens in order to support the set of beliefs that the state would then establish. The objective is not to mislead the audience, but rather to attempt to undermine their structural and ideological foundations. Methodology for examining societal facts that varies depending on individualistic level. The privacy that comprehends the context that appears to criticises the truth’s medium. This works comprise of facts and use the work to question the state’s subversion of created and subverted facts. Information is used as a political tool to portray facts that, in the context of the time, result in a decay of power by design.

The installation is a digital collage. Picture frames with varying contents and specifics are lined up and will be used to hang the artwork. Sometimes it appears that each picture is almost unrelated, while others appear to be very related; however, when put together, and with a thin narrative thread, the audience or viewers are able to piece together hundreds of the stories of each picture. Such assembling all of the story puzzles on this wall with some guidance in which are the experiences of each audience, as is the work of weaving the events on the wall together. Everyone will encounter their differ to varying degrees and for the purpose of framing There is a direct space for individuals to arrange the story themselves, and each individual has a unique preference for reading from left to right or right to left. Each individual could well begin with non-linear approach to order of the works which would results in different subjective experiences.

 

Venue & Exhibition#1 : Whiplash Exhibition ,CMU Art Center ,Chiang Mai

Venue & Exhibition#2 : THIRD SPACE ,Lido Art Space ,Chiang Mai

Venue & Exhibition#3 : S.O.E 2023 ” We Trade Everything” Art festivals , khonkaen

Model250A (The Archiver)

Project Title : Model250A

Media & Technique : Interactive Installation

Exhibition/Venue : lnwza Exhibition ,Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

The Archiver’s concept of work is influenced by the work of first-person questioning, interfering for use in control, studying the control of a set of ideas using tools such as documentation or history, creating a new set of beliefs and understanding by making a documentation. Collecting permanent histories and hundreds of new stories to create new stories through reality and imagination.

This is compared to writing a state’s history in which facts and fantasies are statistically used to control what can be said and what cannot be said in each period of history. But those evidences were interpreted into reality through the people of the state to support set of beliefs that the state will create. The goal is not to mislead the people, but trying to destroy the foundations of concepts, structures, methodologies for looking at facts in society which depends on the subjective understanding of the context through which it appears that attempts to critique the medium of truth and use the work to question the destruction of the state-created reality and destroy the use of information as a tool

Politically, it is done to render a picture of fact that, in that context loses its objective power. where it should be. That being said, it is still link to the original concept of the previous work. This work portray about experiential possibilities or how to tell a story in the form of work. Differently, the work requires possibilities in other ways. The researcher wants to pose a challenging question about what is Time-based media, which is the media that is referenced on time. There is a timeline dividing the story beginning, middle, and end. The researcher wants to intervene in the timeline to create possibilities and results that are similar or different from the collage work. The work of the collage work are hung in the form of frames arranged in a row, each of which has content and different in details. At the same time it seems that each picture may be barely related or some pictures seem very related. When put together it present can be resemble onto each and another with thin line of storytelling.

The viewers who come to thread the story of each picture together as if they are putting together a puzzle of the whole story in this wall, with the experience of each viewer. Clearly we can see that the collage are operate beyond the timeline. Therefore, it will results in telling the story in any sequence output. That in which researcher will work the animation that comes out in a format that is not on the timeline or can interfere with the timeline itself. The work therefore comes out as an interactive animation that the audience can choose to see the sequence of events. In any situation it is not always necessary to start from the first event to the second. An unnecessary sequence of events gives rise to the possibility of different perceptions. It also includes the fact that each event proceeds in its own circumstance and what is perceived in the event will be different as well through the subjectivity of interactor.

Model250A – Installation

Model250A – Visual On Screen

Model250A – Video

Model250A -Opening Exhibition

Model250A – Module LCD

Model250A – Installation

Model250A – Installation

Model250A – Development #1

Model250A – Development #2

Model250A – Development #3

Model250A – Development #4

Model250A – Touchdesigner #1

Model250A – Acrylic Broken

Model250A – Interactive with button

NIA (National Intelligent Agency) Program

Project Title : NIA Program

Media & Technique : Interactive Installation

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

The concept of Parental Surveillance vs Government Surveillance (NIA Program) is to ask questions about surveillance in order to control people in government, how and where parental supervision in government can be done, control and make it possible beyond what it should be, by studying from the smallest unit, the family institution, and leading to a wider image in the state unit, by studying through the context of the family itself, with the father as the national filtering unit, acting as a surveillant and interference into privacy. In order to change the person in government into the right person according to the state’s wishes.

and find ways to deal with what the state considers unsafe and in the family unit, there is a mother who oversees and takes care of the well-being of the family. One is to over governing a life and protect the family without any danger or risk. But when the parents’s actions are too intrusive on the part of the ruling, it may cause discomfort and doubt of intentionality, and the parents argue that it is done for the stability of the institution. Whether family or state, sometimes parential control may go above and beyond and use argument as an excuse and questioned whether the inspection is done for the purpose of getting more control. That is beyond reason or not. Recognition system or comparing faces that are the most similar to who in the family in order to get an answer on different stories and events. Different in term of a family story that has been recorded in which will be separated according to each person’s face as well

By work is an interactive installation installed using the Python program. Write a program in building a Terminal, simulating a program, managing or interfering with or storing government operations by giving all personal data, including a phone book. In which when everything is completed, it will be virtual simulation, when provide inputs to register with the system, and soon there will be a phone rang in the group of audience will have a call line in which each person will get different and diverse messages.

STATUS - SUBALTERN

Project Title : STATUS – SUBALTERN

Media & Technique : Moving Image

Exhibition/Venue : Media Arts and Design Building ,Chiang Mai 

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

The virus (covid-19) has exposed our inequality. In terms of certain social classes, when our precious freedoms are questioned. Equality turned out to be just an ideal.

Another issue of digital inequality that countries overlook is:
The issue of digital literacy and preparedness is the result of many factors, such as inequality in social structure. And the economy, education level, and even age.
This is a series of new issues that have emerged under the umbrella of digital inequality, as mentioned above: Not everyone can effectively use these new technologies, even in their hands, we can see this problem. More specifically, if we think of rural society beyond our background, we are familiar with urban society.

Finally, the government brought us back to the original digital cycle mainly through PromptPay and mobile banking transfer remedies. Dividend again, as the public will register to bind their bank accounts to PromptPay accounts or other mobile banking applications, they need to: Have a mobile phone, it must be a smartphone!

Mathematical equations and social equations.
The social equation has found that the sum obtained from one side of the equation may not always be equal to the sum on the other side. Because the sum of the other party comes from influence, it may be more extensive than the sum of the other party. A clearer picture, such as a complex regression equation called multiple regression, reveals that the characteristic of the equation is y=a+b1x1+b2x2+b3x3. Continue, but it will end with+e and e. This is the difference because e is an error or error that occurs in all equations. E. Or this kind of motion error makes the social equation different from the party’s mathematical equation, which reduces gifts in the same way.

There are no policies to reduce inequality or social inequality.

ShelfExpress

Project Title : ShelfExpress

Media & Technique : Interactive Installation

Venue & Exhibition : Portapak Exhibition, Weave Artisan Society

26 – 28 March 2021

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

Concept: The Internet reshapes us through the algorithms we see. Question whether we are truly ourselves, and at the same time, our data is being sold in the era of big data.
As a product, no matter what we do, where we go, or what we want to eat, advertising will rebound onto what we want. Interested
Technic: Html, Javascript to create a website and fill in the content you like. Receipt and photo box, everyone can receive the receipt and retrieve it. Algorithms are no different from products.

MUDs (Multiple User Dimension)

Project Title : MUDs 

Media & Technique : Moving Image

Exhibition/Venue : Machine Exhibition, CMU Art Center, Chiang Mai

Artist Statement and Aesthetic Practice :

Today, the cyberspace is free, and everyone has more voting rights, which creates a gap. Therefore, the government uses the media gap to create IO to awaken some ideas in society, just like propaganda. So I want to ask a question: Do we really lack online freedom? Because in the end, we can always be controlled by something.

Communication in Thailand used to be conducted through mainstream media and could not engage in interaction or debate. This is known as one-way communication. Make it easier to control one’s beliefs by controlling thoughts or propaganda. Do not ask questions, but when The internet has changed these things, just like in the past, two-way communication and interaction. The questioning of what is happening has prevented the state from intervening in the truth as it did in the past. Information warfare This is to create social trends, track reality, and support what they want.

The video art of telling and questioning the online identity of government agencies.
How important are these identities to society?
All dubbing is caused by Thai to AI translation and the use of AI for dubbing. Voice and sound use artificial intelligence to create subtitles for identity or IO operations. Or to reconstruct the identity of someone who wants to attack or shake the stability of certain things.

Emotional Damage

Project Title : Emotional Damage

Collaboration : Suwin Chawla Text Diary , Sahapon Chootinan Collage

Media & Technique : Collage 

Exhibition/Venue : SWC_Exhibition ,Addict Art Studio ,Chiang Mai