A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
SAIC faculty member Parinda Mai.

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Parinda Mai

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Bio

BA 2014, Princeton University; 2019, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; MFA 2022, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Awards

Top Promotional Award of International Competition, Blinded by Centuries, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2023; Best Video Art & Experimental, Blinded by Centuries, Tirana International Film Festival, 2023; New Artist Society Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022; Thai Royal Government King’s Scholarship, Princeton University, 2014.

Exhibitions

Selected film festivals: International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Ammodo Tiger Short Competition; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur; Melbourne International Film Festival; Oberhausen Film Festival (finalist shortlisted); World Film Festival of Bangkok; San Francisco Cinematheque; Onion City Experimental Film Festival; Glasgow Short Film Festival; Uppsala International Short Film Festival; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Beijing International Film Festival; Stuttgarter Filmwinter; Curtocircuito International Film Festival; Marseille Underground Film Festival; AFIAS Madrid; Festival Ecra Brazil.

Video installations: Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, IT; Musée D’Orsay, Paris, FR; Links Hall, Chicago, IL; SITE Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Chicago, IL; Toot Yung Art Gallery, Chiangmai, TH.

Personal Statement

Parinda Mai (มาย) (she/her) is an artist-filmmaker born and raised in Thailand. Her art and filmmaking practice often constructs the female body as a sensual-sexual microcosmic lens through which the world is observed and revealed, at times marveled at, and at times examined. She privileges haptic visual expression that plunges the viewers into participation with muddy terrains of overlooked, unrecognized, misunderstood, and forbidden energies.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

Class Number

1261

Credits

3

Description

This course is designed to introduce students to the language and histories of the moving image arts and the diverse ways in which artists have contributed to them. Throughout the semester we will examine a range of approaches to creating moving image work. We will compare and contrast established ?norms? with radical and experimental approaches to these various media, leading to an understanding of the rich, complex, and evolving landscape upon which individuals have been making, and continue to make, moving image art.

Students will engage with this expanded field through lectures, readings, screenings, meetings with visiting artists as well as becoming active in discussions and practitioners in the field via group projects.

Working in small groups, students will complete a series of short projects to introduce them to the various pathways of the department. By the end of the semester, students should have gain basic production and postproduction skills as well a good understanding of the key concepts relevant to contemporary film, video, new media, installation and animation.

Class Number

1484

Credits

3