CITY OF QUANTIFIED VISIONS
28 Feb. to 3 March 2019
@ NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY / SCHOOL OF ART, DESIGN AND MEDIA
during Light to Night festival @National Gallery Singapore
CITY OF QUANTIFIED VISIONS program addresses to Singapore, one of the world’s most high ranking ‘smartest’ cities today, with advanced technologies of surveillance and tracking functionalities implemented across the island city-state. The computational infrastructure of intelligent cameras and sensors is mirrored in intense urban media aesthetics of light and celebration in this competitive urban context, growing fast in size, resolution and computational complexity while contributing to quantifying the quality and spatial feel at a street level. Quantified visions fuse through ecologies of intelligence and intensity and familiarize Singapore’s citizens to perfect designs for housing, transport, economy, recreation, identity and public spaces, which are priority areas formulated at the top. But do the visions of seamless government and celebratory aesthetics behind Singapore’s urban blueprint also stimulate initiative, participation and engagement at the human scale, from the bottom-up?
With this academy program we examine the urban visions reflected in Singapore’s urban media aesthetic environments and ask: how may urban visions embedded in art’s intensities differ, and how can they co-exist? How can art engage intensities that stimulate rather than compute human behavior?
Lab+Lectures+Symposium+Field Trips
with
Prof. Kristy H.A. Kang and Prof. Dr. Ina Conradi, School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Elliot Woods, artist from Kimchi & Chips collective from Seoul
Prof. Luke Hespanhol, University of Sydney, head of the design research lab
Suenne Megan Tan, director of the public program of the National Gallery
The Urban Media Art Academy is initiated by Susa Pop and Tanya Toft in cooperation and co-funded by the Goethe Institute Bangkok and with the support of the Creative Europe project Future DiverCities co-funded by the European Union.
Please register for free under www.urbanmediaart.academy