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  • Ushering in the Electronic Age: Ikkan Art Gallery’s “The Experience Machine”

    Ushering in the Electronic Age: Ikkan Art Gallery’s “The Experience Machine”

    Transition has been on my mind of late. Maybe that’s why I gravitated towards the insight noted in The Experience Machine’s catalogue essay on the industrial age making way for the “electronic era”, allowing for renewed “ways of seeing and experiencing our world”.

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    John F. Simon Jr., “Endless Victory”, Software, Apple Powerbook G4, acrylic plastic

    How then does our current electronic era influence art? More than ever, artists are using technological advances to alter and challenge their practices and processes, giving rise to ‘New Media Art’, which comprises “constantly evolving hybrid technological art forms such as video art, digital art, interactive installation and customized software art”. (more…)

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties: Gillman Barracks Opens

    All Tomorrow’s Parties: Gillman Barracks Opens

    After the slow-burn of buzz leading up to the opening of Gillman Barracks, it was finally time for art-goers to get drunk on art once again (after an already busy week of openings at Valentine Willie Fine Art, Ikkan Art International, and the ICA at Lasalle).

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    Entrance to Gillman Barracks

    Set against a tropical jungle backdrop, Gillman Barracks is a cosy enclave with buildings from the 30’s spruced up by Jurong Town Council (S$10 million can go quite a long way it seems). It definitely looks much better in the evening, a lovely setting for future art openings/cocktails/parties. (more…)

  • Tohoku – Road to the future – Art and photo Exhibition Public event • By Relief 2.0

    Tohoku – Road to the future – Art and photo Exhibition Public event • By Relief 2.0

    Tohoku - Road to the future

    Had you ever wonder how a disaster zone looks like? I guess most people will refer to the images shown by news channels when misfortune happened. But had you wonder about the recovery process, or what happened to the survivors?

    This is an International Art and Photo Exhibit featuring art from survivors in the disaster area in Japan and Haiti, donated art, and photos from the Japan Tsunami, 10 days and 1 year after the Tsunami, showing the progress of recovery. Products made by survivors in the shelters as well as the art and photos are also for sale to support the survivors to enable them to earn a living instead of relying solely on aid.

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