Wildly Reimagined aims to promote ecological awareness and protect the natural habitats of native Singapore wildlife species by showcasing the reimagined animals through AI-generated designs. The project aims to pique the audience’s curiosity and creativity with such designs to foster a deeper understanding of the natural world and promote sustainable action.
AI technology used in Wildly Reimagined generates unique, whimsical, and one-of-a-kind designs that are transformed into comforting and familiar stuffed toys. The project also aims to humanise and demystify AI technology, showing audiences its potential for creative and practical applications beyond conventional computing tasks. This strategy aims to increase the audience’s receptivity to the advantages of AI in other aspects of their lives.
Fashion Artifice is a design project that explores the intersection of AI, fashion, and posthumanism. The project borrows from the history and current state of AI in the fashion industry, as well as the theories and principles of trans and posthumanism. This would include looking at how AI is currently being used in fashion and aesthetics such as in the design and production of clothing and accessories and exploring the ethical and philosophical implications of using AI in this way.
The result is Solemn Creatures, a photo and video series that contemplates female identity and beauty with the grotesque charm of posthuman aesthetics and utilises the AI research in Fashion Artifice.
Blue Encounters is a project that brings the ocean into the urban context. It offers a ‘blue’ way of looking at everyday urban encounters, encouraging meaningful connections with the ocean through indirect urban objects/experiences, and direct, mindful engagement with the sea. By shifting our minds from the urban red to oceanic blue, this project aims to bridge the distance between urban adults and the ocean, allowing us to experience its restorative effects on our well-being and deepen our connection with it.
Memento, a collaborative animated film, is an invitation to contemplate the intricacies of the human emotion experience. Delving into the nuances of our personal memories and materialising them into a watchable form, it enables us to reflect upon our own experiences and the emotions they evoke. Gaining a deeper understanding of ourselves for personal growth and self-discovery. The film utilises a train journey as a metaphor to depict the path of life. Sending the message that life, just like a train journeying through various stations, moves forward through different emotions.
Memento focuses on five emotions: Joy, Sorrow, Passion, Fear and Hope. Characters present in the film are each personified to a specific emotion, making their entrance and exit at various stations. A portrayal that our being is a culmination of all past experiences and emotions. This film strives to showcase an amalgamation of three fundamental art disciplines, namely 2D keyframe animation, 3D animation, and early Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. Through experimenting with the motion capabilities of AI to generate a base animation with humanistic attributes, which is further built upon and refined, it allows for the fusion of these three disciplines to dramatically increase productivity.
Ever wondered why tattoos are still frowned upon by the older generation in Singapore? Although attitudes towards tattoos are changing among youths who see it as art, social conservatives continue to associate tattoos with negative connotations, largely due to the Confucian value of filial piety and the association of tattoos with crime and punishment.
This project seeks to understand the perspectives of the older generation and educate them about the evolution of tattoos as a form of self-expression that is no longer associated with criminality, but rather as a reflection of modern society. By exploring the cultural history of tattooing and its origins in beliefs of power and protection, ceremonial rituals, and means of identification dating back to 5000 BC. The project aims to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of tattoos as an art form, ultimately leading to greater acceptance of tattoos as a means of personal self-expression.
