Saturday, March 01, 2003
The International Robot Talent Show, New York City
If you think it's a robot and you think it's making art,
then it's an art-making robot!
Deadline 1st of March
When This Second Robot Talent Show will take place at Eyebeam Gallery in New York
City on July 12-13, 2003.
About ArtBots
ArtBots is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making
robots. No firm rules exist on the types of work that can be submitted.
About fifteen submissions will be selected for participation in the show.
The show will run for two days (saturday and sunday) with all artists in
attendance. Selected works will remain installed during the rest of the week
as part of EYEBEAM's summer robotics festivities.
For more information, check their website.
Website www.artbots.org
The International Robot Talent Show, New York City
If you think it's a robot and you think it's making art,
then it's an art-making robot!
Deadline1st of March
When This Second Robot Talent Show will take place at Eyebeam Gallery in New York
City on July 12-13, 2003.
About ArtBots
ArtBots is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making
robots. No firm rules exist on the types of work that can be submitted.
About fifteen submissions will be selected for participation in the show.
The show will run for two days (saturday and sunday) with all artists in
attendance. Selected works will remain installed during the rest of the week
as part of EYEBEAM's summer robotics festivities.
For more information, check their website.
Website www.artbots.org
Gallery and Theatre
The Third Place Café,231 outram rd.
thethirdplace.com.sg
Gallery opens 11am-11pm.
The Articulate Gallery Series [TAGS]: creating a theatre experience via
interdisciplinary arts. Participating artists will brainstorm together on how
to convert a non-artistic space into a gallery, and how their works could weld
together into a theatrical showcase.
TAGS seeks artists from all genres who are interested to collaborate in its
bimonthly projects. Each project operates under a theme.
“The challenge is in creating a different theatre experience.
Something that reeks of training, skill and boldness;
Someone to experiment without fear;
some impetus to transform unfamiliar mindsets.”
On the lookout also for a part time TAGS crew:
Props manager
Stage manager
Advert designer
(TAGS is a bimonthly project. The TAGS crew will be challenged to convert a
café into a gallery cum arts space in 2 weeks, and will be committed to
brainstorming over late cups of tea. )
Log onto: www.geocities.com/jammaqueen1/TAGS1.htm
Co-Housing for Local Artists
A group of NUS Achitecture students are researching on the
possibilities of co-housing for local artists of all disciplines.
Co-housing basically means that members of the co-housing community
will share communal spaces such as kitchens and living rooms, whereas
bedroom spaces remain private.
It would be greatly appreciated if members of the artscommunity
could help complete a very short anonymous survey for this research
project. The online-survey is at:
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?id=31460
This survey will be closed on 2 Mar 03, Sunday.
Artist Feature
Ng Joon Kiat was awarded the Georgette Chen Arts Scholarship and NAC Arts Bursary for his Associated Diploma in Visual Arts (Painting) and Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He also received the Ericsson Scholarship and the SIA Excellence in the Arts Award in recognition for his achievements. Joon Kiat won the Nokia Award in 2000 and went on to represent Singapore in Seoul, Korea, where he won a Merit Award in the Nokia Asia-Pacific Art Competition 2001.
He had participated and organised numerous exhibitions and had been the Creative Arts teacher and researcher for LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts, The Arts Fission Company, and in various schools.
He was awarded the Shell-NAC Arts Scholarship in 2001 to further his studies in Fine Art.
The work of Ng Joon Kiat at the Kent Institute of Art and Design mainly dealt with the notion of extending the relevance of painting in relation to Western Contemporary Painting History, by the studying of his personalized order of things. His research work involved cross-referencing of microbiology to explore ideas on the re-interpretation of the doing, seeing and perceiving factors of a visual, and at the same time explored the subtexts of cultural perceptions and personal experiences.
At present, Ng Joon Kiat has been granted a studio space at Telok Kurau Studios in Singapore, and he is holding a solo show in 2003.
Thursday, February 27, 2003
Artist Feature
Chng Seok Tin, 57, is a renowned local professional printmaker with visual impairment. She obtained a Master of Art from New Mexico State University in 1981 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1985.
Seok Tin is an icon for women today with her optimism towards life despite her disability from a 1988 operation to remove a brain abscess, which left her with only 20% sight retention in her right eye. However, Seok Tin continues to produce works in no less quantity or quality, drawing from sources of inner feelings and memories. She has not allowed her impairment to deter her from living the life of an artist.
Year of Birth: 1946
Disability: Partial Visual Impairment with 10 percent vision
Quote: The public should be more understanding towards the physical limitations imposed on artists with disabilities
Suppliers Feature
Creative Hands has her humble beginnings as a modestly-sized art store, operating out of the old Plaza Singapura, back in the early 80s. At that time, she provided the fine arts community with a much needed supply of high quality art paints, brushes and other fine art materials, brought in from the famous international houses of Winsor & Newton, Prismacolor, Canson, Mead, and Maruman. Among her regular and loyal clients were a sizeable number of famous local as well as foreign artists.
In 1997, Creative Hands closed her doors as the Management prepared for a major revamp of the store in response to the changing demands and trends of the new millennium.
Today, exactly two years later, we are reopening our doors with a brand new look and an exciting new concept! Centrally located at the heart of Singapore's shopping belt - Orchard Road, we stay faithful to our original goal of serving discerning artists, including many new local and foreign artists, with an even larger range of quality fine art materials as well as our unparalleled personalized service. In addition, we are charting new waters to bring the love and challenge of art to the masses; with our new range of glass and porcelain paints, silk paints and courses catered to those hoping to pick up art for the very first time! We have on our site links to famous museums as well so you can appreciate art even as you do it!
We have a new philosophy, a new approach and exciting new products to introduce to the creative market!
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Biennial Sculpture Symposium
The symposium aims to re-explore sculpture in a world that is increasingly virtual in nature. The process of making is a basic human activity, only realised through a direct hands-on experience. This strange fascination compels the sculptor to work essentially with materiality apart from the exploration of space and form. The process of this form of art-making is time-consuming and labour-intensive. As a result, hand-made objects are less common today. Therefore, the symposium hopes to rekindle this interest in the hands-on making of a sculpture. Another objective of this project is to create objects in space, which are unique to the land and the history of the environment. The sculptors strive to reveal the qualities of the natural materials that they share in common. Through this process, the works take on the part that enhances the environment and seeks to become a positive and continuing discourse in the exploration of art in the public space.
The works of the sculptors will assume many forms and will be uniquely developed, given the different background and circumstances. This event will require the involvement of the community to realise its objectives. The whole symposium would be publicised to get the public involved and to view the sculpture-making process. The sculptors can share with the public their unique vision and their technical and aesthetic skills necessary to execute their ideas.
ARTISTS
Ahmad Abu Bakar (Singapore)
Baet Yeok Kuan (Singapore)
Chong Fah Cheong (Singapore)
Lim Soo Ngee (Singapore)
Zainudin Samsuri (Singapore)
Anusapati (Indonesia)
Maria Taniguchi (The Philippines)
Ruangvit Poomtangon (Thailand)
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Symposium + Preview Exhibition
opens Monday, 3 March 2003, 12:30pm @ The Art Gallery, NIE-NTU
exhibition continues till Tuesday, 25 March 2003
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Sculptor Talk Series Thursdays, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
6 March
Anusapati
Chong Fah Cheong (Singapore)
Zainudin Samsuri (Singapore)
13 March
Maria Taniguchi (The Philippines)
Baet Yeok Kuan (Singapore)
Ahmad Abu Bakar (Singapore)
20 March
Ruangvit Poomtangon (Thailand)
Lim Soo Ngee (Singapore)
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Culminating Exhibition (works from Symposium)
opens Thursday, 27 March, 6:30pm @ Plastique Kinetic Worms
exhibition continues till Thursday, 17 April 2003
* some works will be shown on NIE campus grounds
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Another project by:
PLASTIQUE KINETIC WORMS
61 Kerbau Road. Singapore 219185
Tel: 6 292 7783
Fax: 6 292 2936
Email: admin@pkworms.org.sg
URL: www.pkworms.org.sg
Open: Tuesdays – Saturdays 11:00am – 6:00pm
The Art Gallery, NIE, NTU
Visual and Performing Arts
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk. Singapore 637616
(nearest MRT/bus interchange: Boon Lay. connecting bus service: 179)
Tel: 6 790 3557
Fax: 6 896 9143
Email: nievpa@nie.edu.sg
URL: www.nie.edu.sg
Opens: Mondays – Fridays 10:00am-5:00pm, Saturdays 10:00am – 1:00pm
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Supported by:
NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL, SINGAPORE
LEE FOUNDATION
NIE-NTU, department of visual & performing arts, SINGAPORE
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
HYBRID
Recent Ceramics by
Jason Lim
6:30pm Thurs March 6, 2003
Gajah Gallery is proud to unveil a new series of works by ceramist, Jason Lim.
Returning to Singapore after a degree in Ceramics Design
at Central St Martins, London,
Jason crafts a new definition to ceramics as sculpture.
Reminiscent of traditional ornamental ceramics yet with
a modernist twist, his tactile creation exudes rawness and force,
reflecting his artistry and craftsmanship.
Gajah Gallery
MITA Building 140 Hill Street #01-08 Singapore 176369
Tel 65_6737 4202 Fax 65_6737 4203
gajahgal@starhub.net.sg*
UTTERLY ART presents ANTICIPATIONS
Geraldine Schubert . Mumtaz Maricar . Ann Healy
Paul Chay . Sarbani Bhattacharya . Koh Tien Gui
Thursday 27th February 2003 7.30 pm
Utterly Art Exhibition Space
208 South Bridge Road 2nd Level,
Singapore 058757
Tel: 6226 2605
E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
Mon-Sat 11.30 am - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm
The exhibition runs through to Monday 3rd March 2003
Anticipations is a rare opportunity to examine the birth process of new art works. It traces the development of six artists' current experiments and showcases incomplete and early finished pieces. This intimate airing also exhibits notes and sketches of the artists, who share with their viewers private thoughts and moments that inspired their new series of works. The show is a two-parter which will conclude later this year in Realizations in which the finished series of artworks are displayed. Accept this precious invitation to share the preliminary concepts of the artists before they take on their final form.
Larasati-Glerum holds first international auction in Singapore
The Singapore arts scene is taking another big step forward in April when some 60 pieces of Asian artwork can be bought at an international auction to be held here.
The auction is organised by Indonesia-based auction house, Larasati-Glerum.
These paintings could command more than S$150,000 when each go under the hammer.
Larasati hopes this could be a springboard to creating wider exposure for exceptional Asian artists.
Christine Khor, Singapore Tourism Board, said: "The auction industry is the dragon-head of the art-trade. And by that I mean, it leads the whole art-trade. There are artistic and economic spin offs when the auction house of the standard of Larasati comes to town."
Art collectors can view and bid for the pieces from 3 to 5 April at the Raffles Hotel.
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