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Friday, June 13, 2008
CrossCurrents@ Osage Singapore,Old School(Former Methodist girls school)
This is the exhibition I have been telling some of you about. And my cousin, yes Kingsley Ng Siu King's art is being featured. And besides him, there are also numerous other artists from Signapore and China being involved. In total, there are 7 exhibits which should take about 1 hour to finish seeing them all. All these pieces are interactive media art. So the viwer is required to engage the piece to understand the meaning it is trying to convey. 
First up, The Chinese mechanic T-Rex by some chinese Artist. this T-Rex will not scare you unless you provoke it by waving infront of the sensors. After that, the speakers and mechanic components will spring into action and..creat a sudden racket that'll scare you off your feet. Serious. So I suppose this is supposed to signify China as a rising power.
Different walks of life: These may look like normal photos. but they are actually formed by digitally combining numerous images of nhumerous persons in the same background. the effect, is this interesting+ghostly image? XD
360 degrees of airports. Showing the sights and sounds of an airport terminal and the stories that are acted out everyday. Happy ones..sad ones...
There's also this "Music dance' thingy at the old auditoriaum with laser and mist effect. Supposed to mimmick the music by a Guzheng. 
Normal Chinese Communist propaganda poster being projected on a wall? Why does those faces look like me?
Cuz you've been caught on "candid Camera" Visitors have their faces being captured by a candid camera placed infront of the piece and their faces are being integrated into the picture. Supposed to mean how vulnerable we are to err..propaganda?
You can even listen to Mao speak whose back from the grave! ARRGGH!
And finally, Kingsley will present his piece: The musical wheel.The musical wheel is essentially a horizontal revolving wheel where you get to sit in and there will be the sound of soft, slow music from a string instrument along with noise recorded from Kwun tong in Hong Kong. this is accompanied with laser light from the ceiling.
The sound of string instrument actually comes from these wires that are located along the sides of the wheel. As the wheel revolves, the is a needle that will strike the wire to produce the sound. the wires are arranged in such a way that the revolution results in an effect of a slow Chinese song played aon a Guzheng.
This is where the visitors will sit.
A few mediacorp artistes also came along for some filimg of the place. Which should be broadcasted soon..I hope....Labels: art, CrossCurrents, Interactive, Kingsley Ng, kwunTong, Old School, Osage
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