Experimenta Play ++

Tin was invited to the opening ceremony of Experimenta Play ++

Location: Sculpture Square

Time: 7 - 9pm

Date: 28th July 2008

Day: Monday

Experimenta Play ++ was presented as part of ISEA 2008
It was also the 1st ISEA exhibition tt i attended

Experimenta Play ++ is an exhibition of 5 exemplary Australian media artworks tt respond to gallery visitor thru playful & innovative interfaces involving touch, movement, sound, shadow & pressure

Curated around the theme "Ludic" / playful interfaces, they showcased a number of ingenious methods tt the artists use to involve the gallery visitor to touch the artwork.

Touch, movement, sound, shadow & pressure are used in technologically advanced ways to trigger response in the works, to generate narrative within frictional worlds & create sonic compositions.

Experimenta is respected as Australia's leading organisation dedicated to commissioning, exhibiting & promoting the most advanced media & technology-based art.

The 5 artwork are as follow

Charmed

Offering omnipotence thru a touch screen

thr were 3 touch screen and each of them depicts a story once it's touch by the visitor

"we always wanted to be humble. However, due to the ppl and environment around us, we are not kind to ppl and tend to be who we are not "

s1 - congestion of traffic, once the screen is touched, the car will be crashed and more & more traffic could not pass thru the traffic lane

s2 - lovely trees are cut down for construction of new buildings, in Aussie @ nite, ppl watch tv & do nth, do nth.....

Immersion

allow visitor to play with the creature in the virtual underwater world. These creature respond to ppl's shadow

The Shy Picture

A photograph hangs on the gallery wall, quiet, unobstrusive & mysterious. These character seems to see us in the photoframe. When we take a step closer to them, they run away and hide

What's Yours Is Mine

Inspired by childhood mythology, thr's a bear tt sings in a scrulpture tree and dance in the scrulpture tree. Using light & glass, it combines the magical pepper's Ghost technique w/ motion sensing equipment to explore the intersection between phisical & virtual space.

ZiZi the Affectionate Couch

the cat tt ask for emotional support tt give you physical supports. sitting on this couch is like sitting on a living thing. Your butt is its massager while your stroke & scratch pleasure it.

Light Installation by The Electric Canvas

SNM became a canvas for infinite creativity
By The Electric Canvas, this light installation tickled the imagination of a human
as they transform our beloved monuments into colorful spectacles

Location : Singapore National Museum
Exhibition duration: Till 3rd August 2008, Sunday,
Time: frm 7.30pm


watch the house as it slowly changes its color and patterns


not forgetting the sign of direction
tt enhance the composition of the images


crossed the road & here you go
a tree tt is hanged with lights and wordings of paint

Ballet Under The Stars

Presented by Singapore Dance Theatre
Ballet Under The Stars

Location: Fort Canning Green
Date: 25 th - 27th July

Date Attended: 26 th July
Time: 7.30pm ( gates open frm 5pm)

In celebration of SDT's 20th years old
SDT's proud to showcase the 11 pieces of dance ranging frm classical & neo-classical ballet to contemp works

The 11 pieces of dance are
BEGINNING Goh Choo San
CINDERALLE PAS DE DEUX Graham Lustig
FIVES Goh Choo San
FIVE LOVE POEMS Edmund Stripe
LAMBARENA Val Caniparoli
LIVING GREENS Mohamed Noor Sarman
MANINYAS Stanton Welch
NEGRO Y BLANCO Jeffrey Tan
SCHUMANN IMPRESSIONS Anthony Then
STAMPING GROUND Jiri Kylian
WHY NOT? Paul Ocampo

BEGINNING was very 1st piece of dance choreographed by Goh Choo San & performed by SDT when it was formed in 1988 with a cohort of only 7 dancers.

The dance last for 6 min & music by Sir Lennox Berkeley Serenade for Strings.

It was performanced again @ BUTS 2008 with 4 dancers, to name them are
Zhou Lin, Chihiro Uchida, Robert Mills & William Wu

The movements were also captured and printed on the cover page of the brochure & the booklet

it's a outdoor pinic performance :)
ppl can eat & drink and walk around during the performance
even cheer for the dancers after their dance

the volunteers frm River Valley School

din manage to take better quality images as i was seated at the back
however, i could still rmb the backdrop for the dance piece entitled "FIVE LOVE POEMS"
combination colors of dark blue, purple & green

electro lab - FILM::CLUB

Film : - Yoshihiro Hanno and Dickson Dee (Japan / Hong Kong)
: Club - AOKI Takamasa (Japan)

19 Jul 08 (Sat), Recital Studio
7.30pm ( Film: )10pm ( :Club )



Film :Yoshihiro Hanno and Dickson Dee (Japan / Hong Kong)

Since the invention of sound motion picture, music accompanying the moving image viewed in a darkened hall has the ability to tell a story without dialogue, evoke emotions and create moments of anticipation and relief.

Film : is a double-bill of filmic music accompanying video art work, a homage to music, sound and the moving image.

Film : is the seamless melding of the soundscape of live music by electronic musicians Yoshihiro Hanno a.k.a. RADIQ and Dickson Dee with moving images of the urban Asian landscape by video artists Yukeke Kaida and Chan Pikyu.

Both Hanno a.k.a RADIQ and Dickson works with a wide range of creative styles including

electronic, techno, acoustic, avant garde, turntablism and soundtracks.

Tin's Review

zebra crossing in HK where 3 x 4 images are played in repeats

all moving images moved in the same direction initially
goes in e messy direction @ e end

division of 5 panels where each image video is repeating after another

thr's no sequence in which which panel image video arrives 1st

inscense burned & scattered

experimental water ink is used for the artwork as the background,

burned for the performance as a performing art

original music was not played by Dickson

as his PC was crashed

instant sounds of bell was rang instead

: ClubAOKI Takamasa (Japan)

AOKI Takamasa is one of the busiest and freshest young electronic artists today. His sensitivity to melody and groove coupled with his approach to live performance keeps his music warm, emotive, and engaging.

Although there are now many artists who use personal computers in live performances, the majority seem to rely only on the functional convenience of the computer as opposed to AOKI's style of pushing his creativity through his computers and software.

Tin's review

techono, loops, mixing all rythm in MAC PC

palette of glitch, minimal tech, electronica & IDM

Night Festival 2008

Presented by Studio Festi frm Italy - The Dancing Sky

It's a Opening Ceremony on 18th July, Firday @ National Museum

The night was transformed into a surreal & magical playground

Location: Stamford Green, Stamford Road & SMU Campus Green

there was a slight delay of 15 min due to large human traffic tt congested the traffic @ the crossroad of the trsffic light in-front-of YMCA
hot teh terik to warm up my body after being splashed by the water as part of ther performance on the 2nd half.

Studio Festi is known for their extraordinary, large-scale outdoor performance

am really impressed w/ the moves of the dancers, featuring aerial performance


start of the performance

flying vessel


flying piano

they emerged frm the left of the road & dance in the balloon

look how elegant is this costume

with flower at the bottom of the skirt

purity & blessed

i manage to captured this image, clear :)

thr were ten ladies who were dressed the same

tall, long skirts & they dance only using their upper body

graceful against the night sky, the acrobats danced in mid-air between large floating spheres

there was a interval after the 1st 2 performance
next comes the water dance, water splash and fire dance
i mean the dancer dance while holding the rod with fire

* the frame for the dancer *


* crop for the lighting *

as for the water dance, audience can watch how the dancer moves freely in & out of the water while she dances to the lovely rythm

2nd Singapore Young Photographer Award 2008

It's SYPA again....



it's really nice to see young photographers' work being showcase to the public =)

the place is located at SNM - Singapore National Museum's concourse
i was actually on my way to the restroom on 12th July - Sat
din really know tt thr's this exhibition till then

Lending stature to the exhibition are works of veteran photographers namely
Mr Kwek Leng Joo (Chairman, SYPA Steering Committee & avid photographer)
Mr Lee Tiah Khee (Chief Photographer, Lianhe Zaobao)
Mr Ken Seet (Fine art photographer)
Dr Graeme Guy (Nature & wildlife photographer)
Mr Darren Soh (Professional photographer)

their works were great
to name some of my fav images
monkey & it's kid by Graene Guy
Waves emerging by Cheon Wee Kiat
Bean light by Cheon Wee Kiat
Circular building @ chinatown by Hu Qiren

This exhibition ends on 27th July 2008
which is a Sunday
Opening Hours: 10am - 8pm
REMAINDER: NO PHOTO TAKING IS ALLOWED

MOP #2 & #3

Night & Day Gallery @ Selegie Road
At a building of 70 years old @ its top level

MOP#2 Out of Focus



several images taken by several photographers
sense of solitude on the left side frm the right turn
vintage & imaginery point of view
series of toy soldiers capture in the book, on words and under the plastic

MOP #3 The Magic of Cinema


images are taken during the shooting of film and behind the scene
most of it are in the 50s - 60s
images are mounted on a temp black wall tt's just in-front-of the musuem

MOP #1 - STARBOUND - Potraits & Film Sets

Month of Photography (MOP) for the month of July

Starbound is a exhibition of film photography based on the theme "Still/Moving"

most of the photos are images tt are screened in the movie as well as the preparation for the various movie.