The work displayed on the right is part of a wider practice in which Tim Knowles utilize apparatuses, mechanisms, or systems beyond his control to introduce chance into the production of his art.

The pieces here are from a series produced by trees. Sketching pens are attached to to their branches and then sheets of paper are placed in such a way that the trees’ natural motions—as well as their moments of stillness—are recorded.

Like signatures, each drawing reveals something about the different qualities and characteristics of the various trees as they sway in the breeze.

An interactive map installation exploring the Singapore River as a “psychogeographical faultline” - where reality, memories and imagined spaces interact, merge, or drift apart - like a series of tectonic plates.

The Singapore River is a site of historical and commercial significance for Singapore, as well as a site to socialise at and dream of things to come. Where urban Singapore is concerned, it is hard to speak of any outstanding natural physical features that remain, besides the Singapore River; the site of Singapore’s genesis.

Ding designed, built and programmed two versions of an interactive installation that allows visitors to explore and speculate on the shape of the Singapore River.

Bio Mapping is revolutionary methodology and tool for visualising people's reactions to the external world.

The unique methodology of this project involves working with groups of people to interpret and analyse the data and adding annotating onto these individual emotion tracks. Through this process communal Emotion Maps of lots of people's emotion data are constructed which are packed full of personal observations and highlight the issues that people feel strongly about.

The Flood Helmet is a mobile device that visualises possible future flood scenarios based on the user's physical location. The flood level in the helmet is determined by the elevation height of the land that the user is standing through gps coordinates inputs and gives users a sensory and experiential exploration of their surrounding areas and the future it might hold.

Flood Helmet is part of "Objects for Our Sick Planet" and is awarded a Jury Recommendation Award for Japan Media Arts Festival.

The inspiration for The Urban Explorations Project stemmed from an interest in documenting the various phenomena in the urban landscape, through the retrieval of sounds, colours, smells, or simply the collection of objects discarded by people, in order to investigate what is ordinarily going on in the heart of Singapore.

Urban Explorations
Selected projects
 

Urban Explorations
Selected projects
 

Urban Explorations
Selected projects
 

Urban Explorations
Selected projects
 

Urban Explorations
Selected projects
 

The Book of Plants takes you on a journey through the microcosm of leaf, bud and flower, branch, stem and the macrocosm of stem, grass, herb, shrub, shrub and tree. A world with an immense variation in color, shape and size. Starring a superior life form, an 'organic machine' that accompanies us in silence.

"Hello, my name is Kate McLean. I map city smellscapes, lead smell walks and write. My work is at the intersection of human-perceived smellscapes, cartography and the communication of ‘eye-invisible’ sensed data. I use a range of media including digital design, watercolour, animation, scent diffusion and sculpture to generate smell maps to encourage and stimulate people to consider smell."

"Hello, my name is Kate McLean. I map city smellscapes, lead smell walks and write. My work is at the intersection of human-perceived smellscapes, cartography and the communication of ‘eye-invisible’ sensed data. I use a range of media including digital design, watercolour, animation, scent diffusion and sculpture to generate smell maps to encourage and stimulate people to consider smell."

Overlooked is a celebration of street covers, presenting them as impeccable pieces of industrial design, threaded throughout the functional fabric of a city. Overlooked consists of rubbings taken of 22 London street covers, from Islington to Kensington. The rubbings are presented in a folded A1 booklet in neon tones. These feminine and modern colours give a different perspective to the covers' industrial and bold designs, revealing hidden decorative patterns and nuances.

In October 2022, SAFE opened at Somerset House, London. The public exhibition featured 10 speculative futures’ projects.

These 10 projects, created in response to 10 LRF supported research projects, are rooted in real-world test cases and near-future trends. With a particular focus on how we can make the world a safer place, these research projects – and their speculative counterpart – travel across land and sea, addressing topics from food scarcity and water infrastructure, to big data and the future of automation.

Creating multi-sensory delight through an accessible exhibit that plays with the sense of touch. A Seated Catalog of Feelings uses text and vibrations to conjure over a hundred sensations, ranging from the familiar to the fantastic. A narrative seed is planted in your imagination and coloured in by tactile vibrations felt through a chair.

A singer performs in different locations, from a cozy bedroom to the knave of a church. The sound changes as it interacts with the architecture.

The Great Animal Orchestra is a performative space in which spectrograms specifically crafted for and generated by Bernie Krause’s soundscapes form an abstract projected landscape, a visual interpretation of the various global locations and times of day that Krause made the original recordings. The installation envelops the audience encouraging them to linger and reflect on the language of the living sounds and the phenomenon that each animal has its own acoustic signature in the oral tapestry of its ecosystem.

A study depicting the stylistic diversity found in graffiti tags. Graffiti Taxonomy is a graffiti-based study in which characters are isolated from a collection of graffiti tags that were photographed in the same geographic region. The characters presented on the façade of the Fondation Cartier were photographed by the artist from April 24 to April 28, 2009 in Paris.
Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris (2009) aims to represent the diversity in letter forms written by the Parisian graffiti community.

BLOMs (Bio-technological Living Olfactory Memory system), is a smell memory storage system that creates a complex interplay between human experience and technological advancement, particularly in the context of how we perceive and interact with the passage of time. With advanced technology, we gain the ability to effortlessly capture, revisit, and even create moments in time.

Temperamental Scanner is a modified infrared thermometer that enacts a head-shake upon sensing a user's attempt to take their temperature.

This reversal of relationship between temperature screening systems and its subjects gives the machine an element of human personality and fallibility that is by turns stubborn and disobedient. The irony brings to mind the Covid-19 situation where people keep their distance from others and cautiously interact with objects to keep themselves safe.

Design as commentary

"These are abstract interpretations of bird sound recordings from my trip to the Amazon in 2016. This series is dedicated to the people of Brazil and the ecosystem of one of the worlds most amazing forests. The Amazon is know as the lungs of the world and is under constant and on going threats of deforestation. These are complicated issues that require compassion on all sides. As an artist I feel my roll is to be a voice of inspiration about the beauty of nature with an unconventional approach. Computer generated artwork can still have a connection with the natural world and I hope this is one example of that."

A shapeless mass; a network of times takes as its subject this iconic site of Jurong, the Chinese Garden, and how it exists in people’s memories while in its inaccessible state. The project’s starting point was a pool of recollections contributed by members of the public. These responses ranged from the detailed and heartfelt, to the brief, vague, and even potentially inaccurate.

Installation with machine-knitted lanterns (thermal fusion bonding yarn, acrylic yarn), digital print on fabric, digital print on vinyl sticker, video

Utilizing a combination of crowd-sourced and archival imagery of the neighborhood, along with a collection of user-submitted stories and aspirations acquired through a six month long public consultation process with residents of the township, the work synthesizes AI-generated dreamscapes of a Jurong that is simultaneously alien and familiar to viewers.

The installation allows audiences to browse, sort and contribute to an ever-growing library of memories, influencing the AI-generated visual hallucinations seen throughout the screens of the central structure of the artwork. 

DesignSingapore (Dsg) Scholars Lim Si Ping and Ong Kian Peng harbour a profound passion for design and the transformative impact of technology. United by a shared commitment to harmonising art, technology, and environmental consciousness, their collective aspiration is to drive positive change through their design endeavours.

Artefacts can take on an approach that aligns with examples displayed on this slide for example. Other formats can be discussed during session 2 and 3.

Generative video based on audio recordings

Emotional map based on field trip and GPS data recorded, displayed virtually

Artefact based on visual studies conducted within an urban environment: resulting in a series of art-prints

Interactive experience using data and samples from the field trips interpreted in a playful way

Archive of collected samples in book format organised through visual analysis

3D printed or laser-cut objects as visual and tangible representation of data collected

Projected immersive experience or projection mapping based on impressions collected

Introduction
Desk research and project ideation

Consultation 1, Idea
and start fieldwork

Consultation 2, Field trip and Artefact
Review fieldwork and artefact ideation

Mondays
9.30am
Andreas, Shu Min, Jake

Tuesdays
2.30pm
Joanne and Jake

Thursdays
2.30pm
Andreas, Shu Min, Kapilan (Jake)

3. Here, our interest is in the audible and we are looking for beautiful sounds that we can find in traffic while walking through the city. We will use the mobile phone to record audio. Using these audio recordings we will then create our artefact(s)

1. Enter the Idea sparks that interest you the most 

2. Draw connections between fields

Tool 1
Context building, theme finding

Tool 2

Field trip task
Idea sparks and Activity fields

Tool 3

Locations

Tool 4
Field trip plan

Artefacts can take on an approach that aligns with examples displayed on this slide for example.

Generative video based on audio recordings

Emotional map based on field trip and GPS data recorded, displayed virtually

Artefact based on visual studies conducted within an urban environment: resulting in a series of art-prints

Interactive experience using data and samples from the field trips interpreted in a playful way

Archive of collected samples in book format organised through visual analysis

3D printed or laser-cut objects as visual and tangible representation of data collected

Projected immersive experience or projection mapping based on impressions collected

Data

• Video file in .mp4 format

• H.264 Codec, high quality, compression quality 9-12 Mbps

• 1080p resolution (full HD)

• 30fps or 60fps

• Duration 80–120 seconds

• File size not to exceed 120MB

• Use the following label-naming convention:
  ufw_project-title_video.mp4

• InDesign project folder including all files and fonts (zipped)

• Publication spread exported as pdf

• File size must not exceed 20MB

• Use the following label-naming convention:
  ufw_project-title_spread.zip
  ufw_project-title_spread.pdf

• 20 images and 5 videos

• Total size of 20 images and 5 videos not to exceed 120MB

• Use the following label-naming convention:
  ufw_project-title_doc-image_imagenumber.jpg
  ufw_project-title_doc-video_videonumber.mp4​

• Video file in .mp4 format

• H.264 Codec, high quality, compression quality 9-12 Mbps

• 1080p resolution (full HD)

• 30fps or 60fps

• Duration 80–120 seconds

• File size not to exceed 120MB

• Use the following label-naming convention:
  ufw_project-title_video.mp4

• InDesign project folder including all files and fonts (zipped)

• Publication spread exported as pdf

• File size must not exceed 20MB

• Use the following label-naming convention:
  ufw_project-title_spread.zip
  ufw_project-title_spread.pdf

• 20 images and 5 videos

• Total size of 20 images and 5 videos not to exceed 120MB

• Use the following label-naming convention:
  ufw_project-title_doc-image_imagenumber.jpg
  ufw_project-title_doc-video_videonumber.mp4​