tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2024-05-13T14:33:24+08:00 Peatix Performing Arts x Tech Lab Team tag:peatix.com,2024:event-3889914 2024-04-13T13:00:00SGT 2024-04-13T13:00:00SGT

perfor.ml  Performance-presentationIn this session, the Feelers team will present a movement-based performance excerpt which brings together human performers and kinetic sculptures on stage. This presentation is an articulation of findings we’ve uncovered, gaps we’ve unearthed, and questions we have. We’ll be presenting a work-in-progress, part of a long-term process of exploration that will extend beyond this lab. perfor.ml sought out to develop a performance methodology that would allow a machine to act as an equal, live performer with human performers. Rather than approaching the technology of machine learning as an inert tool, or subjecting it to the logic of human cognition and culture, we strove to consider the machine as a collaborator with its own peculiar features and personality.There will be a 30-minute guided tour of the Performing Arts x Tech Lab Industry Sharing exhibition after the event. About the Team Feelers is a research lab of artists and designers focused on the intersections of art and technology. This research takes the form of interdisciplinary artworks, programmes, and education initiatives. Our projects are invitations to think critically and empathetically about the world we live in; and to build a community engaged in learning and working together. Our relevant projects include creative machine learning applications such as Build-A-Caifan and sketch2pigeon, interactive kinetic installation for Streetlamp No. 107101 (supported by Goethe-Institut) and Through The Neighbour’s Walls (supported by The Everyday Museum), and tech-informed performance Game of Life (part of Esplanade eXchAnge 2023).In 2024, Feelers is presenting Touch Base, a series of interdisciplinary programmes that flow along the circuits and fault lines between art and technology. As change continues to accelerate beyond perception, we insist on slowing down. We begin by going back to basics, going back to the body. Find out more about our programs at www.feelers-feelers.com, and follow us on Instagram @feelers_feelers.If you’d like to share your thoughts on our work, please get in touch with us at team@feelers-feelers.com.The Feelers team:Ang Kia Yee is a practice of mutual & collective repair. Most of her projects lope toward the destabilisation, contamination, mutation, and cross-pollination of disciplines, forms, and languages. Her training includes ballet, physical theatre, Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Viewpoints, and more recently, Odissi and hip hop dance. Recent projects include live performances FUME (2022) and Loving Things (to say) (2021); performance video Loving Things (2020); and audio walk 氵pasang (2022). She was a participating artist for Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022, a selected participant for da:ns LAB 2023: IDIOSYNCRASIES at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, and a resident writer for Centre 42’s New Scripts Residency 2021. Ashley Hi is a visual artist who utilises kinetic sculpture and installation to explore medium, material, and movement. Her works blend art, technology, and data to create sensory spaces and generative experiences through algorithm and design. Past projects include speculative machine learning for Cable Imgs (part of Singapore Art Week 2022) and Browsing Copy, kinetic installation and soundscapes such as switchArray, Big Wind (part of Singapore Art Week 2021) and Light Wind, as well as generative tracking and algorithmic mark-making in Boids. She was also a participating artist for Cake Theatre’s Jamming Space 2023.Alysha Chandra’s work spans multiple creative fields, including writing and theatre. Her writing and performing credits include tapping on bone (2022, Produced by A Mirage) and She’s A Great Way To Fly (2018, Produced by Substation. Her writing has been published in the Pr&ta Journal, and she was the Essays Editor for Singapore Unbound’s SUSPECT Journal. She runs the independent media network NIMBUS, and helped launch ART SG, Southeast Asia’s largest art fair. ants chua writes, directs, and performs. An Associate Artist of Checkpoint Theatre, their interdisciplinary practice converses across genre boundaries. Recent works include voices in a room (2021) with Feelers, writing and performing at least I have words now for Checkpoint Theatre’s Two Songs and a Story (2020), acting in Wild Rice's production of Cafe by Joel Tan (2020), and directing Beside Ourselves (2020) by .gif as part of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. They have also been a creative non-fiction writer for the multimedia platform Art and Market since 2022. About the Performing Arts x Tech Lab Industry Sharing The Performing Arts x Tech Lab Industry Sharing invites practitioners interested in the possibilities, opportunities, and frictions between performing arts and various technologies. Marking the culmination of the nine-month Performing Arts x Tech Lab, the Industry Sharing features an exhibition of the Lab projects, alongside a programme of live demos, playtests, and sharing sessions by the participants of the Lab. Come and experience a diverse range of innovative explorations by the six project teams that have delved into technological explorations and applications in performing arts and performance-making such as the archival of dance movement, interactive systems, and performer-controlled stage effects. Join us to learn from  the teams as they share about their Lab journeys, and how their experiences have sparked various discoveries about the intersections between performing arts and technology.  The Performing Arts x Tech Lab is organised by the National Arts Council in collaboration with Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, with Keio-NUS CUTE Center as technology consultant.Note on accessibility: This event is held in a wheelchair-accessible venue. For queries or clarifications, please email Mok Cui Yin / Deanna Dzulkifi at performingartsxtechlabteam@gmail.com. For more information about the Performing Arts x Tech Lab, and participating projects, please visit the NAC website at: go.gov.sg/artsxtechlab