Sorthong Banjongsawat is a semiotician and university lecturer whose work explores how meaning is produced, communicated, and interpreted across cultures. She is delighted to share her insight about Semiotics, the study of signs. It is a tool which helps us understand what others communicate.
With a strong interest in intercultural communication, he observes cultural phenomena through everyday life and entertainment, approaching them as systems of signs that reveal deeper social and symbolic structures. His practice brings semiotics into dialogue with art, media, and cityscapes, offering critical yet accessible ways of reading visual, spatial, and cultural expressions.
Sorthong holds a Ph.D. in Semiotics from Université Paris Descartes, France, and a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in French from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He has taught and collaborated with institutions including Naresuan University, Silpakorn University, Khon Kaen University, Aglaia Studio, Plan Motif, and the Association of French Teachers in Thailand. His expertise spans multimodal analysis, interdisciplinary studies in linguistics, cultural studies, and anthropology, alongside skills in editing, proofreading, and cross-cultural sensitivity.
During her visit, she offer a lecture and sharing session:
Semiotics and Art Interpretation
Talk & sharing session by Sorthong Banjongsawat, Semiotician
Tuesday, 21 December 2025, 11 am – 1pm
At Studio 88 Artist Residency, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai
Free event. Donations welcome.
Sorthong, former lecturer in French civilization and guest speaker in Semiotics for some Thai universities in the field of communication, comparative literature, architecture and linguistics, invites us to explore the world of semiotics in everyday life by contemplating, decoding signs in various kinds of arts, such as performing art, street art, product design, signage. In finding the use of shapes, colors, space or naming, the participants will see how to interpretate meanings in artistic expression and artifacts. The artists, as well, are invited to rethink the way they use signs in their work to convey meanings, either explicit or implicit, literal or symbolic.
Thank you Aglaia DocuFilms for the connection and for making this event possible.
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