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Human+ A Review

Syahrul

Saturday, Sep 30, 2017 - 05:19:41 pm

@ SYAHRUL ANUAR

This was my third visit to the ArtScience Musuem located at the Marina Bay Sands. To begin with, I found the exhibiton very intriguing and brought various degrees of provocation by reflecting with a humanistic angle regarding cyborgs, cybernetics and bio-hacking.

This artwork was a project set up to explore questions arriving from the use of living tissues to grow and Read more →

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4D Project 1A -- Strange Encounter

Shu-ying

Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017 - 03:46:39 pm

@ Shu Art

For this project brief, I wanted to create a feminised world. However, I realised that it would be difficult as it is very difficult to define what a feminised world actually is. Thus I wanted to create three characters that were tongue-in-cheek yet empowering for females.

I realised that there is a lack of Asian female images. Also, since found images are Read more →

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Art Science Museum Visit- HUMAN+

Joey

Wednesday, Sep 27, 2017 - 04:24:29 am

@ jznki

Preliminary Read:

What is your initial impression of the work? What emotional response does the work elicit? What issues or concerns motivated the artist? How does the work enable you to gathering and build those information? How does their choice of media and mode of display affect communication?

Secondary Read:

How might the text shift your reading and understanding of the work? Does it relate to Read more →
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4D: Exhibition Visit

Chanel Chan

Tuesday, Sep 26, 2017 - 10:48:19 pm

@ chanel5chan

The artwork constitutes a machinery arm that automatically keeps the baby cot in a swinging motion. The simple idea of robots or mechanics replacing or reducing the “workload” of a parent is encapsulated in these 2 visual components.

My impression of this artwork was geared towards a more negative connotation where the intimacy of parenting is replaced by the coldness of Read more →

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Exhibition Visit to Art Science Museum

Shawn Ong

Tuesday, Sep 26, 2017 - 09:54:30 pm

@ Shawn Ong's Cinematography

This is actually my very first time visiting the Art Science Museum in Marina Bay Sands. We visited the Human+ The Future of our species exhibition and we were given 1 hour to tour around the museum, I was pretty amazed by the artwork and installation that were done by many well-known artists and also not forgetting some of the Read more →

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4D | sound art reading assignment

Jamie Lim

Saturday, Sep 23, 2017 - 03:25:25 am

@ when in doubt, freak them out

What is sound?

Sound is vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s or animal’s air. It is produced by continuous and regular vibrations, as opposed to noise. Sound is an aural component in almost every activity in the world. It is anything that makes sound, or noise. They include: music, Read more →

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4D | sound art interesting finds

Jamie Lim

Saturday, Sep 23, 2017 - 01:33:26 am

@ when in doubt, freak them out

Example 1:

Game of Skill 2.0 Concept by Christine Sun Kim Built by Levy Lorenzo URL: http://christinesunkim.com/performance/game-of-skill/

Deaf since birth, Christine Sun Kim explores her unique subjective experiences with sound in her work. Game of Skill 2.0 was exhibited in “Greater New York”, an interactive piece where viewers were invited to touch a staff-like device attached to a velcro Read more →

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Project 2: Brainstorm & Sketch

WANG RUIMENG

Tuesday, Sep 19, 2017 - 11:10:39 pm

@ wang1290

The non-perishable food I received is ‘Salted Cashew Nuts Mixed Macadamias ‘ from brand ‘TONG GARDEN’.

The words that I can associate with are:

Nuts

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed. But in slang it usually mean a person is insane or crazy.

Healthy

Nuts are highly nutritious. It will provide high calories but lower fat.

Energy

There is Read more →

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On Sound Art Readings

Shu-ying

Tuesday, Sep 19, 2017 - 01:06:34 pm

@ Shu Art

Sound Art

We Are the World, as performed by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Choir Samson Young 2017 Video and multi-channel sound installation Courtesy of the artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJkDR7YvX0 (4:20-4:56)

When I was interning at Venice Biennale earlier this year, I came across the works of Samson Young, a leading artist in Hong Kong. He was the representative of the Hong Kong Pavilion Read more →

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Pre Seminar Questions

Qiu Wen

Tuesday, Sep 19, 2017 - 12:22:07 pm

@ qlee011

Sound is vibrations. It is that which can be heard by the human ear. It can be created from anything. Is silence a sound then, if it is the absence of sound? Can silence be music then (as John Cage had put forth in his art), if it is not a sound? Most fundamentally, sound has been used for communication, to Read more →
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