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March 16: Upgrade! Singapore #3 presents Zulkifle Mahmod


ICA Gallery 2, LASALLE College of the Arts | 7pm

Upgrade! Singapore #3 presents an evening with sound-media artist Zulkifle Mahmod (Singapore), who will talk about his past, present, and future works.

Zulkifle Mahmod is at the forefront of a generation of sound-media artists in Singapore’s contemporary art development. He was one of the participants at the 52nd Venice Biennale in Italy for the Singapore Pavilion in 2007 along with three other artists, and he adopts a multi-disciplinary/multi-genre approach in his work, that also includes drawings, prints, sculptures and ready-mades. An Associate Artist at the alternative art space The Substation, Zul’s practice signals a more encompassing and expanded visual arts sensory experience. He has frequently worked in the context of the artist collective – being the co-founder of Studio 19 and Pink Ark. He has exhibited in Singapore, Thailand, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, Moscow, China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Norway and Finland. URL + URL

This event starts at 7pm and it’s FREE

Lasalle’s campus at 1 McNally Street is located between Short Street and Prinsep Street.

Nearest MRT stations: Little India, Bugis and Dhoby Ghaut

Call for Proposals Conference Events

Soft Borders: Call for Participation


São Paulo, Brazil

Soft Borders is the 4th Upgrade! International Network Conference and Festival, that will take place in São Paulo city, Brazil, from 18th to 21st/october/2010. The previous editions of the conference happened in New York (USA), Ocklahoma City (USA) and Skopje (Macedônia).

We invite proposals of papers, posters and workshops. A brief summary only is required for the selection process. This should be submitted electronically via the online submission system, by 30/April/2010. You will be asked to create an account with the system before uploading your summary.

We require a summary proposal of 500 words maximum. The title, authors’ name, affiliation and contact details including email address must be provided as well. You don’t need to upload the full paper now. The selected works must upload the full paper file after the notification of acceptance.

In case of problems, please email program-chair@softborders.art.br.

Subject coverage

Soft Borders embraces a wide variety of topics, cross-displinary approaches and presentations of cutting edge technologies. Within the overall theme of soft borders, the subject areas may include but are not limited to the concepts and practice of:

  • Authorship
  • Body / Machine
  • Reality / Thought
  • Collaborative Actions
  • Displacements: global & local transactions
  • Nomadic spaces
  • Ways of interaction and Interfaces
  • Digital Narratives
  • Art & Code
  • Visualising ideas and concepts
  • Digital performance
  • Immersive environments
  • Web 2.0 technologies in art and culture
  • Sound, music, film and animation
  • Technologies of digitisation, 2D and 3D imaging
  • Virtual and augmented worlds

Case studies may be accepted, provided that they include discussions of wider principles or applications using the case study as an example.

More info here: http://softborders.art.br/eng/

Events

Upgrade! Singapore [this was] #2


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February 2: Upgrade! Singapore #2 presents Matt Sheridan and Paviter Singh


Brother McNally Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts | 7pm

Please come to the second Upgrade! Singapore, featuring Matt Sheridan (US/Singapore) and Paviter Singh (Singapore).

matt_up2Matt Sheridan, Disinformation Breakdown, 2008

Matt Sheridan is an animation video artist. His award-winning work has screened in the USA, UK, Brazil, Iran, the Netherlands and France via broadcast, festivals and installations in venues from Centre Pompidou in Paris to the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro; the Rio Video Wall in Atlanta and the Santa Monica Pier in California. A recipient of an MFA in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Matt currently teaches graduate Animation at NYU/TischAsia in Singapore.

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Paviter Singh, Never Vacant, 2008

Paviter Singh is a graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, with a major in Interactive Art. He has constantly looked to traditional as well as technological forms of art as expression. Having previously come from a technological background, the merger of the technical field with the art realm has produced exciting and unexpected results. Paviter’s primary body of work focuses on environmental sound, generative sound and spatial acoustics. Always pushing the visual and aural boundaries, he has created works of art which are both visually as well as aurally inclined. Always looking into communication and miscommunication, Paviter looks to explore silence, sound and aural experiences in our environment. URL

This event starts at 7pm and it’s FREE

Lasalle’s campus at 1 McNally Street is located between Short Street and Prinsep Street.

Nearest MRT stations: Little India, Bugis and Dhoby Ghaut

Events

This was #1


Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts

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Thanks to all of you who have joined us for this first mediated gathering!

Events

October 22: #1 Interactive Art Alumni


Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE College of the Arts, 7 pm

Upgrade! Singapore #1 presents an evening with Interactive Art Alumni from LASALLE College of the Arts. Join us, meet people interested in media art, connect and get inspired.

FloodHelmet1Flood Helmet by Ong Kian Peng
Conversation 1 (1)Conversation 1 by Mize
ryf1vest Suicide Vest by Ryf

Ryf is interested in merging art and technology, and his great concern lies on the notion that technology might be slowly becoming a social burden. His works are an irony and subvert technology in order to provoke situations in which its weaknesses are highlighted. He graduated in 2007 with a 1st Class BA (Hons) Interactive Art from LASALLE College of the Arts.

Mize portrays New Media Art in the form of installations, often taking art history and art theory into consideration. Currently, he works as Exhibit Designer at the Science Centre Singapore, where he is actively involved in art, science, prototyping, and the design of exhibits. Some of the projects Mize has been involved with range from the Amazing Science-X Challenge (ASXC) 2009 to the Reactable, a unique electronic musical instrument with a multi-touch tangible user interface, the only of its kind displayed in Asia.

Ong Kian Peng is a Singapore born and bred new media artist / designer. His works investigates environmental issues, data visualizations and wearable art. Besides creating artistic projects, he is also working on various commercial projects ranging from application developments and installations. He recently co-founded the Futuract Group, a research led new media studio that focuses on interactive experiences. URL

This event starts at 7 pm and it’s FREE

Lasalle’s campus at 1 McNally Street is located between Short Street and Prinsep Street.

Nearest MRT stations: Little India, Bugis and Dhoby Ghaut

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