9 March 2024 
10am – 10pm 
Figment Club House | Visit registration page
SYNERGY: art tech fringe is a community-driven, grounds-up event highlighting innovative, experimental, collaborative, and process-based creative tech works in Singapore.
We are exploring the fringe format because it provides a platform for unconventional or experimental content that may not fit within the constraints of mainstream events. This 1-day fringe event will bring together practitioners of the creative tech community to share, discuss, exchange knowledge, and make new connections in a safe space. Our main objectives are:
- community engagement and peer exchange;
- profiling art tech projects, individuals, and companies; and
- broadening the community’s audience and stakeholder base to develop the local ecosystem for creative tech.
We welcome all interested collaborators to speak or showcase their art-tech works. The main requirement and common goal is for everyone to highlight any innovative, experimental, collaborative, and process-based creative tech works in Singapore.
Agenda
Panel discussions on the following topics |
Speakers |
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| Creating a spatial VR project with performance capture technology | Christopher Chew, Kavitha Krishnan @avventurasg @mayadancetheatre | |
| A Creative Tech community gathering: Void setup () { | @jxke.co @lionelchok @spang.lei | |
| Death Tech: Designing a new process for grieving | Tung Chung Yew, Jek Tan @thememshard | |
| CTRL + ALT + FUTURE: How sci-fi can help us navigate multiple futures | @hao__guang @wenyilee_ @nuraliahnorasid @vrocampo @saraahhndipity | |
| Work-in-Progress: The Sound of Stories | @kaministoryteller @ernie0529@syafiqhalid | |
| What’s Next in XR: Insights from an artist-researcher and studio director | @dbbd.sg @thedoodlepeople.studio @casie__lane | |
| Perspectives from Yonder: Emerging practices from Singapore and beyond | By Urich Lau, Immanuel Koh, Ong Kian Peng, Clara Peh | |
| Creative Tech PechaKucha Presentations: Data as a Lover (On Physical Computation), by Isabella Ong; A Design Comedy, by Ker Siang; Design for Mixed Reality, by Samantha Lee; Weaving as Computational Thinking, by Tiffany Loy. Learn more at https://sgctpk.glitch.me/ | By @interactive.materials Featuring Isabella Ong, Ker Siang, Samantha Lee, Tiffany Loy |
| Art tech showcases | Artists | |
| Another Place / Another Space | Akai Chew @_a_kai_ | |
| Pandera | Joey Chan @jxxycke_ | |
| Geylang Dreamscape: AI Altered Alleys | Layla Wei @thelaylaway | |
| Aerography | Valerie Ng @vngart | |
| Aero Forms AR | Valerie Ng @vngart | |
| Musical Table | Mahyuddin Chan @dinchan.art | |
| Measure a Machine’s Heart |
Bảo Anh Bùi @bao.anh.bui
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| Karaoke Poetry | Tusitala & Matter.Less @matterless.sg | |
| Artisoul Mixed Reality Kindcrafts | Timothi Lim and The Doodle People @thedoodlepeople.studio |
| Hands-on workshops, small gatherings, and 1-1 consults | Collaborators | |
| Creative Tech branding meetup | Members of the Creative Tech Community | |
| Art Tech tarot card readings | Chong Gua Khee @dramatarojak | |
| Any way you Like – Design a tour with Setmaker (Workshop) | Rupert Thomson | |
| 4D printing – Accessing and enhancing art practice through diverse processes (Workshop) | Wan Kyn Chan | |
| Career Coaching | Christie Chua | |
| From EDM to EMAI: Explorations in music and AI (Workshop) | Lionel Chok, Yvette Chua | |
| Beyond Funding: Expanded Ideas and Approaches to Supporting Creativity and Communities (Roundtable) |
For a detailed program and information about the speakers, please refer here.
About our partners
BeFantastic is a TechArt platform that engages a vibrant international community of TechArt creators and experts to push the boundaries of technology and the arts. With a focus on making through an annual international fellowship and showcasing through a marquee festival titled FutureFantastic, BeFantastic carries forth the ethos of innovation in the tech & arts, with a deep focus on community.
Founded in 2019 by Fang Low, Figment is a boutique hospitality company specialising in heritage home rentals for the creative class. Through partnerships with local creators, Figment designs fully-furnished shophouse studios inspired by the culture and heritage of the dwelling, neighbourhood, and city. Figment’s commitment to the arts is tangible in our practice of allocating 15% of rental proceeds to local artists and creatives within the community.
Post event thoughts
Images captured by Tusitala and Vivian Fung
We hope that all 141 attendees, and our 47 contributors (speakers, facilitators, showcase artists), took something of value away from the event.
With the high interest it has garnered, and the valuable contribution it has towards the creative tech community, Tusitala and BeFantastic are planning to organise another art tech fringe event in the 4th quarter of 2024.
For our next iteration, we will invite art tech practitioners via an open call to collaborate once again, in hope to bring together more experts and enthusiasts at the intersection of art and tech intersection within Singapore.
To stay updated with us, you may:
- Subscribe to Tusitala’s & BeFantastic’s mailing list so we can continue to keep you updated
- Join our creative technologist community on Telegram
- Re-live the event via Tusitala’s IG story highlight
- Search social media posts with the following hashtag: #synergyarttechfringe
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