Open Space Panel Sessions
Open Space:
The Flexible Space
of Interface and New Media Machines
Wednesday, 23 June, 8:30-9:45AM
Room 313
This session explores innovative conceptual models, interfaces, and machines working on flexible space. It showcases designers, engineers, and artists from the Mixed Reality Lab/Keio/CUTE Center at National University of Singapore discussing and showing prototypes that crack open spaces and places, including new media inventions, gadgets, utensils, textiles , and new interfaces.
Moderator:
Patricia R. Zimmermann
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and
Ithaca College, New York
Presenters:
Adrian David Cheok (Singapore) is Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In the Mixed Reality Lab, he leads a team of over 20 researchers. An invited keynote speaker at international venues, he is also an award-winning technologist.
Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh (Canada and Singapore) has worked and studied in Zurich, London, Rotterdam, Berlin and Singapore. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Mixed Reality Lab / Keio-NUS CUTE Center at the National University of Singapore and is a trans-disciplinary new media installation artist and designer.
Mili John Tharakan (Singapore) is a Textile Artist-Researcher and a Research Fellow at the CUTE Center. Her research merges traditional textiles, digital technology, craft and gadget to find a new language for Asian textile craft communities. She conducted the first international symposium on interactive textiles in India, IT+T, in 2006.
Open Space:
The Collaborative Knowledge Spaces of Human Rights and New Media
Thursday, 24 June, 8:30-9:45AM
Room 313
This session examines how technologists, activists, and organizations mobilize new media and emerging digital technologies for human rights, social, political, and environmental advocacy and change, especially in marginalized communities and non-governmental organizations in the region. It also looks at the importance of online aggregated archives for emerging movements.
Moderator:
Nikki Draper
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Presenters:
Enrico Aditjondro (Indonesia) has worked in Indonesia, West Papua, the US, Australia and Timor Leste. As a journalist, he has written for the Maritime Workers Journal (Sydney), Southeast Asia Press Alliance, UNESCO, and UNTAET. He co-founded Paras Indonesia, an influential bilingual social-political website. He maintains the Southeast Asia content for EngageMedia
Farah Wardani and Pitra Hutomo (Indonesia) are representing the Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA).
Farah is the executive director of IVAA. She has collaborated with Cemeti Art House, ruangrupa, Edwin's Gallery, Nadi Gallery, Biasa Art Space and published in The Jakarta Post, Kompas, Art Asia Pacific. With Carla Bianpoen and Wulan Dirgantoro, she co-wrote Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens.
Pitra is the Archive and Database System Coordinator at the IVAA, Yogyakarta. She worked with the Open Circuit Community and Video Report as part of Greenmap Jogjakarta. With a team, she built the IVAA Online Archive, first online resource of Indonesian contemporary art.
Bobby Soriano (Philippines) has worked with NGOs in the Philippines for the past 18 years. A member of the Tactical Technology Collective (TacticalTech), he provides systems administration, technical and security support, and promotes mobiles for advocacy and campaigns. He is also in the TacticalTech technology trainer pool for online communications and information security.
Open Space:
The Contingent Spaces of Performance/ Performativity/Soundscapes
Thursday, 24 June, 10:00-11:15AM
Room 313
This session probes the complex, fluid relationships between performance, performativity, soundscapes, testimony, music, and participatory content. This convergence between testimony and technology produces exciting and unexpected contingent spaces.
Moderator:
Sharon Lin Tay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Middlesex University, London
Presenters:
Shannon Castleman (USA/Singapore) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. Castleman has worked as a freelance photographer for clients and for Ray Gun, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press and Workman Publishing. Her work has been extensively exhibited in the United States and internationally.
Addy Gembel (Indonesia) is active as a writer, environmentalist, and a vocalist for the death metal band Forgotten. He initiated the Solidarity Independent Bandung forum (SIB). He has released four albums: Future Syndrome (1997), Obsesi Mati (1999), Tuhan Telah Mati (2000), and Tiga Angka Enam (2003).
Gustaff Harriman Iskandar (Indonesia) founded Bandung Center for New Media Art, with Reina Wulansari, R. E. Hartanto and T. Reza Ismail, to develop Indonesian media art and multidisciplinary artistic practice. In 2003, he developed Common Room, an open platform for art, culture and ICT/Media,facilitated by Common Room Networks Foundation.
Open Space:
The Permeable Spaces
of New Media
Installation
Thursday, 24 June, 4:00-5:15PM
Room 305
This session investigates how new media installation art in two, three and even four dimensions generates fluid cartographies of new permeable spaces—material, imaginary, typographic, synthetic. All speakers will show examples of their works , and discuss the conceptual and design models they deploy to construct permeable spaces.
Moderator:
Wenjie Zhang, National Museum of Singapore
Presenters:
Joaquin Gasgonia Palencia (Philippines) is a licensed physician and a transmedia artist working in video, photography, multimedia, installation, design, jewelry, furniture design, and performance. His work has been exhibited in the Philippines, USA, Japan, Egypt, Spain, Korea, and China. In 2003, he founded the Bagasbas Beach International Eco-Arts Festival.
Michael Tan (Singapore) is currently in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. Internationally exhibited, his practice links art and design to humanities, architecture and urban studies. His artworks explore the symbiosis and synergies between visual practices, sociology and human geography.
Vladimir Todorovic (Serbia/Singapore) is an assistant professor in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. Internationally exhibited, he founded the Emerging Art and Technologies Research Group ‘RASTER’ based in Singapore and co-founder of the Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies ‘NAPON’ in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Jesvin Yeo (Singapore) is currently in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. An internationally exhibited artist, she has also worked as an art director/brand consultant in Singapore and UK for Publicis Group, Young & Rubicam, and Ogilvy. She developed Street Theatre Advertising in London in 2003.
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Top and bottom mast images excerpted from five gabra lizards jump quickly into a matchbox by Jesvin Yeo.
Center images from left to right:
1.
Petimo is a safe social networking platform for young children,
created by CUTE Center/Mixed Reality Lab at National University of Singapore.
2. A project of the Tactical Technology Collective, England/India/Philippines
3. The gallery at Bandung Center for New Media, Indonesia
4. Documentation of Banig, projection and installation by Joaquin Gasgonia Palencia, Philippines