[Important announcement] We can confirm that a few individuals sustained injuries following the water sprinkler incident at Singapore Art Museum. Our immediate priority remains the safety and well-being of those affected. Emergency services are providing on-site medical assistance, and the injured have been taken to a nearby medical facility. Meanwhile, the museum is closed until further notice. Click here for the latest update.
[Important announcement] We can confirm that a few individuals sustained injuries following the water sprinkler incident at Singapore Art Museum. Our immediate priority remains the safety and well-being of those affected. Emergency services are providing on-site medical assistance, and the injured have been taken to a nearby medical facility. Meanwhile, the museum is closed until further notice. Click here for the latest update.
Proof of Personhood NEW: Identity and Authenticity in the Face of AI
22 Sep 2024 to 25 Feb 2024
Level 3, Gallery 3
SAM at Tanjong Pagar Distripark
What does it mean to be human in the face of new technology? Go on a mind-bending exploration where identity and authenticity are challenged, redefined, and pushed to their limits.
The Sea is a Field reveals the inner workings of the SAM Fellowship programme. One of the lines of inquiry of the inaugural programme was the artists’ interest in traversing the space that separates them. Put simply, how to travel between Port Dickson and Singapore by sea? As it turns out there is no simple route. In August 2023, a trip was taken, utilising a network of local ferries, between Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore. This journey was an opportunity to continue a collaborative method the artists have developed, with Charles Lim making observations through video and Simryn Gill through photography and text. With their parallax perspectives, the artists annotate stories of everyday crossings, migrations, and borders that connect to a deep cultural and political history of the region.
The portside warehouse, left in its raw state, becomes a place where the artists navigate distances and proximities between the space of collaboration. The artists consider this less a finished exhibition space than a site that can hold both of their observations and sensibilities — a zone of convergence for their solitary and private undertakings and their public iterations.
Being Human is a show within a show, featuring original and algorithmically synthesised artworks in a diverse range of media. The video at the centre of the installation traverses documentary and fiction, and features interviews with potential guests of the Colombo Art Biennale—some of whom were digitally synthesised using deepfake technology. These guests include a well-known painter, a famous pop star and a young Tamil artist. By exploring Enlightenment-era humanism as the foundation for both global contemporary art and international human rights law, Being Human reflects on issues of individual authenticity, collective sovereignty and what it means to be “human” when machines can simulate human understanding and creative expression more convincingly than ever.
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2022
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Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL, and follows a group of digital beings—render ghosts, a spam bot and a holographic pop star—as they contemplate eternal life and what it means for a digital entity to “die.” Multiple storylines and materials collapse and converge to raise questions on consciousness and the rights we have over our personal data.
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Charmaine Poh's series THE YOUNG BODY UNIVERSE explores avatar creation as a method for repair, resistance and reclaiming agency. In GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY,
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2024
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Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL, and follows a group of digital beings—render ghosts, a spam bot and a holographic pop star—as they contemplate eternal life and what it means for a digital entity to “die.”
