field:work | Regional Dialogue with Futile Devices Collective (VN)

​The second of our monthly Regional Dialogues, connecting the 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱:𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 community with artists, organisers, and practitioners from across Southeast Asia.

​For this session, we’re joined by Futile Devices Collective, a new media art collective from Vietnam formed around a shared interest in technology, art, and DIY approaches to making.

​Members Hà Châu Bảo Nhi and Nguyễn Thái Bảo will introduce Chế and Độ as Method, looking at two distinctly Vietnamese practices of repair, modification, and making-do—and how these everyday material sensibilities might offer ways of thinking about new media art.

​Hoàng Phạm Gia Khang follows with Technology as a Medium: How to Talk with Your Engineer Friend, drawing from his experience across art and engineering to explore how artists and technologists can find a shared language, and what changes when technology is approached as a material with its own behaviours, possibilities, and limits.

​Together, the session offers a view into new media practices emerging from Vietnam, grounded in local cultures of making, experimentation, and exchange.

​Regional Dialogues run monthly across the 𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱:𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 takeover, situating Singapore within broader Southeast Asian conversations around media art and creative technology.