Expressions of Dreams
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
LABCULTURE SINGAPORE: YOUTH LAB
Free art workshop with Singapore and British artists,
about the integration of art + technology
Workshop date & time: Sat, 2 July 2005, 2 to 6 pm.
Showcase date: Sat, 9 July 2005
Places still available!
Calling young people between 16 -- 22 years old! Are
you an aspiring artist? Do you like being creative
with images, sounds, music, words, as well as with
computers? Do you want to learn more about how artists
are using technology to make art today?
At Youth Lab, you will get insights into new media
art, including the history of the art form and the
creative uses of technology in visual art, music, and
performing arts. How do artists integrate computer and
digital technology with artistic concepts? What ideas
are artists exploring in contemporary art?
At Youth Lab, you will experience artworks created
using new media, and interact with our 4
artist-facilitators from Singapore and Britain (George
Chua, Khairuddin Hori, Ming Wong, Julie Penfold). The
artists will give demonstrations and talks, and
there's plenty of opportunity for dialogue.
Places are limited, so sign up now! No previous art or
new media experience is necessary. Come as your own
creative selves. Registration is free and on a
first-come-first-served basis.
Participants are also invited to send in their own
work samples for public display at The Substation on 9
July, 2 – 6 pm. These can be drawings, writing, short
films, or other works.
For more information, call 6337 7535 or visit: www.shine.org.sg
or www.substation.org.
About the workshop facilitators:
Ming Wong is a London-based Singapore artist. He has
written several plays for the English language theatre
in Singapore (Wayang Sayang, Ka-ra-you-OK, Chang & Eng
The Musical, etc) and was trained in traditional
Chinese Art at Nanyang Academy before his postgraduate
studies at the Slade School of Art in London. He makes
multi-disciplinary work that draws from his experience
in the theatre and his contemporary art practice in
time-based and electronic media, in search of a more
accessible and critical means of communicating issues
of identity. Ming's works are often set in
alternative, public locations, where the
architectural, geographical and social contexts play
an integral part in the creative process. He has just
spent fifteen months in the British Library as the
Pearson Creative Research Fellow, exploring the
National Sound Archive's literature & drama
collection, which includes audio art, sound poetry and
experimental drama, which will inform his new
performative films/videos/interventions/events
Julie Penfold is the current Director of PVA MediaLab,
a UK artist-led organisation based in Dorset, that
works directly with artists and new technologies to
encourage a broad and diverse range of participants
and audiences to take part in creative activities that
involve new technologies. PVA MediaLab developed the
successful LabCulture artist residency model, which
encourages artistic work in a critical and supportive
environment. Since 1996, PVA MediaLab has developed a
national track record working with artists and new
technology. It has worked with hundreds of artists
from the UK and abroad and delivered a number of
large-scale projects. Julie has worked with artist led
initiatives since 1991 and has significant experience
of project development, working with young people and
international work. Julie sits on the ArtsMatrix
(Creative People) steering group and represents PVA on
the APD (a-n artists’ information company) network.
George Chua is a sound artist, experimental musician
and performer/dancer. His sound work ranges from
digital processing of acoustic events to exploration
of micro sounds. For the past few years he has been
focusing on sound and new compositional possibilities
for music experimentation. George also composes and
performs music for theatre and film. George was one of
the four artists/group selected for the workshop
presentation phase of Esplanade’s artist development
programme SPARKS 1 for his multi-channel
electro-acoustic work The Atlas: Invisible Cities.
George was also awarded an honourable mention for
music for TheatreWorks production Balance at the 4th
Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards. He has been an
Associate Artist of The Substation since 2002.
Khairuddin Hori is a multidisciplinary artist who
works across the fields of visual art (painting,
sculpture, installation and performance art) and
theatre. Khai graduated with a diploma in Fine Arts
(sculpture) at NAFA in 1995 and in 1997, became an
Associate Director and an integral part of the team
that resurrected Teater Ekamatra. He has initiated
artist exchange projects between Singapore-Indonesia
and Singapore-Thailand, curated a group exhibition of
young contemporary Malay artists entitled Berita
Harian (2003), curated the activity-based art
exhibition Wonderpark! at the Singapore Art Museum in
2004, and is planning an exhibition for the Esplanade
at the end of 2005. In all his artistic undertakings,
Khai has maintained a constant drive for
experimentation and the visceral. Since 2003, Khai has
been an Associate Artist at The Substation.
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