The two week water color workshop by our two eminent artist from Thailand Dr Suchart Vongthong and Sompote Singthong has succefully complete.We have a month-long exhibition at VAST with all the beautiful art works,all are welcome to witness anytime. We at VAST would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Suchart and Sompote for the great experience and the knowledge that has been passed, we are very lucky to have had this opportunity.
The Honorary Consul of the Royal Thai Consulate, Ugyen Tshechup with Dr. Suchart and Sompote.
At the Exhibition.
The Honorary Consul of the Royal Thai Consulate, Ugyen Tshechup with Dr. Suchart and Sompote.
Following are some article published in our local papers with regards to the exhibition:
Bhutan Today
30/05/2009
VAST workshop gives way to month-long exhibition by Aruna Rai
Exposure to international standards methods of painting has done Bhutanese painters a world of good.
The two-week long special art workshop conducted at the Voluantary Artists Studio, Thimphu(VAST) by two acclaimed senior artists from Thailand, Dr Suchart Vongthong and Sompote Singthong ended yesterday. More than 500 art works were exhibition.
The exhibition is the outcome of the special art workshop conducted by the Thai–Bhutan artistic connection.
The exhibition not the only commemorates the first anniversary of artistic relations between Bhutan and Thailand. But it is also the result of an Endeavour to consolidate and promote people to people relationship.
Karma Wangdi, (popularly known as Asha Kama ), a founding member of VAST, said ‘’The art workshop has been successful and it is clearly visible from the results we have . Through third phase of the art therapy was shock therapy for us because of disaster but in over all it was good experience”
He further said: “Thought I am a tutor, my experience in water colour is not that good. I could learn a universal method of painting and my students have benefited a lot as they have seen these artists doing magic with watercolours. Our artists have improved a lot from this workshop”
The art exhibition is going to last almost one month. A couple of paintings have booked by the guests present at the exhibition.
One of the participants said: This workshop in particular was something unique and different from the usual activities we do as artists from Thailand came to teach us how to professional artists work. It was a good opportunity for us, as we came to know about the real artistic way of painting. When professional artists from other
Countries come to teach us, kit really inspires us”
He further said that with this workshop he got exposed to some professional art works and they also had an opportunity to interact with all other artist coming from the different regions of our country.
According to Dr Suchart, people were happy about their project and to see their paintings.
He further said: “ Bhutan has a unique culture and traditional and so is their painting, as it is clearly reflected in this workshop and exhibition.”
The Honorary Consul of the Royal Thai Consulate, Ugyen Tshechup, was the chief guest at the art exhibition.
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Kuensel
30/05/2009
VAST Watercolour Workshop/Exhibition
An Exhibition of watercolour paintings was the culmination of a ten –day workshop conducted by two visiting Thai artists at the invitation of VAST.
Asha Karma, a founding member of VAST, organised the event to make Bhutanese
Painters aware of the basic fundamentals and various techniques that can be employed in watercolour painting.
Smile Away – Grand Mutual Smiles
Everyone at VAST is very excited these days to be a part of a digital art installation called Grand Mutual Smiles.
Grand Mutual Smiles is a two-way interactive installation that communicates between two parties through the transmission of images of smiling faces.
Progressively captured pictures of smiling people are displayed on video screens at each installation site. The motivation is to encourage users to communicate across the internet in a non-verbal and humorous way, by smiling. Approaching the concept of the smile as a universal expression of joy, the project will present two sets of updating matrices of people’s faces at each of the destinations. Both Linz in Austria and Thimphu in Bhutan will therefore be connected by real-time updating “smile” boards.
There will be two “smile-boards” at each location, one representing the remote location and one representing the local location. Each smile board will be realized in practice by either a large LCD screen or a video projector.
This is how it works.
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At each installation site, a camera will be set up, connected to a computer running custom face detection and smile detection software. The software will be continually capturing the faces of the people close to the smile boards and within its field of view. If it encounters what it considers to be a smile, it will save the image to the respective smile-board. As a local smile-board acquires new images, it will then send those new images across the internet to its corresponding board in the remote location. As the images will be compressed files of small size, the time taken to transfer and then display a new image from one location to another should be no more than 30 seconds.
Both boards at a given location will be connected to the same camera equipped computer. The software will also keep track of smile statistics, indicating how many smiles have been tracked per country, per hour and per day.
Grand Mutual Smiles will therefore create a simple but effective internet powered real-time index of happiness at the specific sites in both Austria and Bhutan.
The Grand Mutual Smiles project is the brain child of Pierre Proske. Pierre is a digital artist from Austria and presently in Thimphu as a VAST guest.
>> More about Pierre.
Welcome dinner for Pierre at VAST.
Welcome dinner for Pierre at VAST.
Welcome dinner for Pierre at VAST.
Welcome dinner for Pierre at VAST.