Arts, Culture & Society
Arts, Culture & Society
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 explore this profound question by merging art and data. Since 2010, they’ve travelled more than 200,000 kilometres across 38 countries and territories, documenting what people at the local poverty threshold […]
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…
Humanities and Humanistic Education
I Robert E. Proctor in his book on the problem of the humanities begins with the following: One of the difficulties facing those of…
Traditional Chinese Medicine in a Modern Society
An Interview with Prof Chen Jiaxu PROF CHEN JIAXU Prof Chen Jiaxu is the Dean of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Jinan Unversity…
Hashtagging an Ancient Art: Internet Technologies and Mask-Making in Contemporary Bali
Cok Alit Artawan is a lecturer at the Indonesian Institute for the Arts (Institut Seni Indonesia, or ISI) in Bali’s capital city of Denpasar. An…
What are Experiments, and why do we need them?
WHAT IS AN EXPERIMENT? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an experiment as “an operation or procedure carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover an…
