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An Old New World is an interactive exhibition curated at the National Museum of Singapore, which is under the institution of the National Heritage Board. This exhibition allows curious visitors to learn and explore the '200 years leading up to the establishment of an entrepôt in Singapore in 1819'. The exhibitions start with an area dedicated to the maps used and discovered of the 17th to 19th century that show how the East Indies were navigated, surveyed and documented. There is also an interactive globe, which when you turn the globe to face a certain side, the projector on the wall will change accordingly, allowing you to learn about what topic you picked. We then set foot to an area where we can learn more about the ships and sails used during back in the days. There is also an interactive ship to let people find out how sailors navigate the seas in the past, the items people brought for their long journeys, and the challenges faced at sea. ...

On the 22nd of September, 2019, Art x Tech Canada  did a seminar in Singapore's The Arts House. The seminar was free, and our class went there to listen to experts from Canada talk about the art world meets digital technology.  The event took quite some time. It started at 2pm, followed by opening remarks and a keynote address about the whole event by Dr. Sara Diamond, president and vice-chancellor of Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD University). Then before the actual seminar starts, we all had a coffee break together. The first part of the seminar took about an hour, followed by a rapid question and answer for the rest 20 minutes. It was about 'Creating a Digital Arts Ecosystem', and the speakers (Roch Michel – Media Creative Director of GSM Project, Henry Faber – President of the Toronto Media Arts Centre Boards, Kezia Toh – Senior Manager of DigiMuse from National Heritage Board Singapore, and Eric Lefebvre – Director of Devel...

ArtScience Museum has been known to host a lot of future world  exhibitions. And this time, they have collected several artworks made by renown artists that including Ant Farm, Artúr van Balen,  Dawn Ng, Franco Mazzucchelli, Jean-Paul Jungmann, José de Miguel Prada Pool, Luigi Rados, Luke Jerram, Momoyo Torimitsu, The Yes Men, Thomas Baldwin,  UFO and many more. Floating Utopias– The Transformative Power of Inflatable Art , is a playful and poetic exhibition that also explores the social history of inflatable objects, and how it has been used as art, architecture or social activism over the decades. Floating Utopias shows how inflatable objects have opened up new windows to technological advances, from the invention of the hot air balloon, it has allowed humanity to be able to leave the confinements of ground for the first time and experience a new point of view of the Earth. Inflatables invite people to be playful and yet to claim their space as well; ...

The 10th of July, 2019, is when I first heard about The Singapore Bicentennial Experience , attending Mr. Gene Tan's; the creative director of the Bicentennial, seminar, as he talks about his story on how this project was born. He explained that this project is so big that it took him about 5 years from the first time he started planning the project until how you see it today. He also said that one of the most important keys of his research is to read a lot of books about Singapore's history from local and global historians to accurately develop the narrative of the showcase and look for other installation as an inspiration/reference. He jokingly said to be successful is to copy other people's work that is already successful and make it better. After listening to the seminar without having any clue on what even is The Singapore Bicentennial Experience   and what to expect, I heard that our class managed to snatch several tickets for the 23rd, and we were very lucky to ...