tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2022-03-21T16:07:42+08:00 Peatix Arts House Limited tag:peatix.com,2022:event-3181729 2022-03-20T15:00:00SGT 2022-03-20T15:00:00SGT

Speakers: Ong Kim Seng and Immanuel KohModerator: Ken Tan, Senior Director of Programming and Producing, Arts House LimitedJoin Cultural Medallion artist, Ong Kim Seng and assistant professor of Singapore University of Technology and Design, Immanuel Koh, as they discuss the contrasts between creativity in humans and machines, from the perspectives of a master watercolorist and one of the key figures in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence and Architecture.Limited seats are on a first-come-first-served basis. Register your interest early to avoid disappointment. Artist ProfileOng Kim Seng (b. 1945, Singapore)Ong Kim Seng (BBM, Cultural Medallion, AWSDF, NWS) is synonymous with watercolour in Singapore. A self-taught artist who has exhibited around the world, his collectors include Queen Elizabeth II and Kofi Annan. Ong made history for Singapore in 1990 when he became the first Asian member to be named on the register of the American Watercolour Society, following the winning of important prizes administered by the organisation in the last two years. In 1990, Ong received the Cultural Medallion for his contributions to visual arts in Singapore.Ong Kim Seng grew up in Tiong Bahru, a district which would feature as a subject in his paintings. Largely self-taught, he honed his early skills with a painting group during the 1960s. The group would meet every Sunday at the Red House Bakery building at Bras Basah Road and then head to the Singapore River where they would paint.Ong’s works are rich in local colour – whether referencing old shophouses and alleyways of his birthplace in Singapore, or the sun-filled village-scapes remembered over the course of his many trekking expeditions across Asia. Ong’s style is described as post-impressionistic and naturalist, and marked by the observation of luminosity in a particular (often romanticised or exotic) place, bringing to life nostalgic scenes with quick and spontaneous brushwork.In 1983, Ong received the Paul B. Remmy AWS Memorial Award by the American Watercolour Society, which led to more awards, eventually resulting in him being named a Dolphin Fellow with the society.Ong holds fast to his philosophy that art is an ongoing activity that does not end, and still continues to paint every evening late into the early hours of the morning as part of a regular daily regime. Immanuel KohImmanuel Koh, one of the key international figures in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence and Architecture, holds a joint assistant professorship in Architecture & Sustainable Design (ASD) and Design & Artificial Intelligence (DAI) at the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD). A co-founder of the avant-garde collective Neural Architecture Group (NAG) and co-curator of AIArchitects.org, he was appointed as the Hokkien Foundation Career Chair Professor in 2021 for his trans-disciplinary research. Immanuel obtained his PhD from the School of Computer Sciences and Institute of Architecture at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and was nominated for the Best Thesis Prize and twice shortlisted for the 1 Mio Euro Lopez-Loreta Prize with his dissertation titled Architectural Sampling: A Formal Basis for Machine-Learnable Architecture (2019). His recent work has won the Golden Pin Design Award and nominated for the SAIL Award (Superior AI Leader Award). He has exhibited internationally at NeurIPS’ AI & Art Gallery, Venice Architecture Biennale, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, Shanghai’s 3D Printing Museum, and Taipei’s Tittot Glass Art Museum; and featured in Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects (2021) and Neural Architecture: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence (2022).Immanuel is the author of the book Artificial & Architectural Intelligence in Design (2020) —  a first to reflect on the epistemological implications of AI on architecture, and vice versa. He also serves as an editor of the new journal Architectural Intelligence, committee member and reviewer of DigitalFUTURES, Design Computing & Cognition (DCC), Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), and Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM). His latest writings can be found in the forthcoming 2022 book chapter contributions in Artificial Intelligence and Architecture: From Research to Practice, AD (Machine Hallucination: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence), and Transformations (Artificial Creativity).A graduate from the prestigious Architectural Association (AA) London, Immanuel has taught at the AA, Royal College of Art (London), Tsinghua University (Beijing), Strelka (Moscow), Angewandte (Vienna), DIA (Bauhaus Dessau), Harvard GSD, UCL Bartlett and many others worldwide. Immanuel has also practised as an architect at Zaha Hadid Architects (London), as a programmer at ARUP with Relational Urbanism (London), and as a creative coder at Convergeo (Lausanne) and anOtherArchitect (Berlin). Most recently, he serves as an expert consultant at the new ZJU-BOSIDENG Joint Research Center on AI Design (Zhejiang).Immanuel now directs Artificial-Architecture which explores the techniques of the artificial, but also its societal implications through the expanded lens of the architectural. Some of his funded research projects have been supported by agencies such as, DesignSingapore Council, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Temasek Laboratories and National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC).