Arts, Culture & Society
Arts, Culture & Society
The Wrong Way to Look at Art And Why It Might Be Right
The Wrong Biennale is not a traditional art event. There are no museums, no galleries, and no opening night. Instead, it lives entirely online. It began in 2013 as a simple idea: What if anyone could create a digital art exhibition on the internet? No curators selecting who’s in and who’s out. No […]
Clickbait or Consumer Guide?: How Influencers Drive Our Purchases
Consumers’ purchasing behaviour varies depending on factors such as psychological state, socioeconomic conditions, cultural influences, and personal reasons. In the not-so-distant past, celebrity endorsements were…
Technologies of the Soul: Rethinking the Sacred in a Hyperconnected World — An interview with Prof Ian McGonigle
In this issue, THINK’s Chief Editor spoke with filmmaker and anthropologist Ian McGonigle about his award-winning documentary Technologies for the Soul. The film examines how…
My Leisure Is Not Your Capital
I am Yi Bin, a person trying to live life on my own terms. I went to the Rhode Island School of Design to learn…
The Poverty Line: A Contemporary Art Project by Chow and Lin
What does poverty taste like? In their contemporary art project, The Poverty Line, artist duo Chow and Lin (Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin) from Singapore…
GENESIS KAI: Charting the Artificial Horizon in Art
GENESIS KAI Genesis Kai is a virtual artist born from the fusion of natural language processing AI and tactile senses acquired through her human creator,…
Artificial Creativity: The Rise of Generative AI and Its Toll on Artistic Integrity
In the summer of 2022, a ground-breaking AI tool named DALL-E took the internet by storm. DALL-E is an image generator that creates images based…
Yin, Yang, and Machine Learning: The Convergence of TCM and AI
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a form of complementary medicine that was first developed over two thousand years ago. The TCM concepts, such as ‘Yin’(阴)…
Artful Ageing: The Unstoppable Creative Journey of the Centenarian Artist Lim Tze Peng
Lim Tze Peng is one of Singapore’s most significant artists and a living legend. He was born in 1921 to a family of farmers in…
Ageing, Pain, and Dying
“Die early or grow old, there is no other alternative.” SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR La Vieillese 1970 (The Coming of Age) Historically, death has been a…
