Arts x Tech Lab
About NAC's Arts x Tech Initiative
The Arts x Tech Initiative by the National Arts Council (NAC) champions innovation and experimentation. It fosters collaboration across the arts and technology sectors, encouraging arts practitioners to explore and integrate technology into their practice.
About Arts x Tech Lab
The Arts x Tech Lab serves as a dedicated, open and welcoming space for emerging and mid-career artists and practitioners working in the intersection of arts and technology. As a pilot initiative, the Lab hosts regular, curated and artist-led activities - including talks, workshops, showcases, and community meet ups - to build competencies and networks. Ultimately, the Lab drives innovation and new artistic endeavours, bridging arts and technology conversations to develop Singapore's vibrant arts scene.
As a dedicated space for the arts x tech community, the Arts x Tech Lab supports learning, experimentation and networking through:
- Free access and booking of the space
- Complimentary use of equipment such as electronics, audiovisual devices, fabrication and prototyping resources
- Exciting range of local and international programmes such as workshops, talks, networking mixers and more
- Upcoming collaboration opportunities for arts x tech programmes
Address:
Aliwal Arts Centre, 28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918, #02-05
Opening Hours:
7am - 11pm
Monday - Sunday
📢Important Note
Before you visit, please do check out the dates below when the Lab is closed for other activities and events and plan your visit accordingly.
🗓️January 2026: 8, 10, 17 to 31
🗓️February 2026: 1, 2
Before you visit the Lab, please read the following to help you get started.
Before visiting the Lab, please complete the following: |
1) Understanding the SpacePlease read the Community Guidelines. |
2) Getting AccessPlease retrieve the passcode via the link below to enter the Lab. Before you visit, do check out the dates above when the Lab is closed for other activities and events and plan your visit accordingly. |
3) Using EquipmentYou may find out more about the available equipment in the Lab below. |
4) Staying InvolvedSubscribe to the Arts x Tech Lab Mailing List for updates on exciting programmes and opportunities at the Lab! |
5) Getting SupportPlease reach out to:
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As this is an open and welcoming space for shared and collective use, we strive to maintain a safe, collaborative, and sustainable environment. |
1) Keep the Lab Welcoming for EveryoneWe're all in this together, so let's make sure the Lab stays comfortable and organised for others. When you're wrapping up, take a moment to tidy up your area - think of it as leaving a little gift for whoever uses the Lab next. |
2) Handle Shared Resources with CareAfter using any equipment or moving furniture around, please return everything to its original position. This helps everyone find what they need quickly and keeps the Lab looking its best. |
3) Be Considerate of OthersPlease keep conversations and activities at a reasonable level that lets everyone focus on their projects. A little consideration goes a long way in helping everyone do their best work. |
4) Collaborate and LearnThe Lab thrives on curiosity — share your process, ask questions, and support others’ experiments and projects! |
5) Safety First, AlwaysPlease avoid modifications, unsafe installations, or actions that could damage property or pose hazardous risks to others. |
6) Security for Peace of MindThe Lab is monitored by CCTV cameras to help keep our space, equipment, and community members safe and secure. |
Upcoming Events
🗓️ Date & Time: 24 January 2026, 11.00am - 12.30pm
📍Location: Artspace@Helutrans, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-05, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
🎟️ Free Admission (Registration required)
📝Register Here (Spaces are limited, secure your slot today!)
[Light refreshments provided]
Featuring Gunalan Nadarajan (Art theorist, Curator), Sabine Himmelsbach (Director of House of Electronic Arts (HEK)), and Victoria Ivanova (Head of Innovation at Serpentine Galleries), join our panel discussion examining the complex relationship between arts institutions and technology-driven creative practices. Explore how parallel platforms have emerged to support digital art when traditional museums fall short, and discover innovative curatorial approaches that bridge conventional art spaces with technological innovation. Panellists will address institutional challenges, alternative exhibition strategies, and the evolving infrastructure needed to support art and technology intersections in contemporary practice.
About the Speakers
Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science and technology, is a professor at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. He is active in the development of media arts internationally and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Inter Society for Electronic Art, is on the Advisory Boards of the Archive of Digital Art (Austria), the New Media Caucus and was an advisor on creative programs of digital culture to the UNESCO and the Smithsonian Institution.
Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of House of Electronic Arts (HEK), brings over two decades of curatorial and institutional leadership experience at the intersection of art and technology. As Director of HEK Basel since 2012, she has curated landmark exhibitions exploring critical themes such as artificial intelligence (Entangled Realities, 2019), data and networked culture (Poetics and Politics of Data, 2015), and technology's relationship with nature (Earthbound, 2022).
Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead at Serpentine Galleries, leads the Future Art Ecosystems initiative at Serpentine Galleries, which develops new infrastructural models at the intersection of culture, technology, and society. Her 15+ years of experience spans establishing innovation frameworks at major institutions, advising technology companies such as Google, VIVE Arts on cultural programmes, and co-founding cultural platforms.
🗓️Date & Time: 22 to 31 January 2026
Monday: Closed, Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 6pm, Saturday - Sunday: 11am -7pm
📍Location: Arts x Tech Lab @ Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05
🎟️ Free Admission
📝Curatorial Tours on 25 and 31 Jan, 2pm: Register Here!
Entangled Agencies is an artist fellowship focused on AI and computational culture, bringing together Isabella Ong, Brandon Tay, and Andreas Schlegel. Each fellow has organised a public lecture and hands-on workshop exploring human–machine collaboration in contemporary art. The fellowship culminates in an exhibition presenting the fellows’ works alongside a small, curated selection of projects developed by programme participants.
The three modules were:
- Module 1: Instructing and Instructed by artist fellow Isabella Ong
- Module 2: Generating and Generated by artist fellow Brandon Tay
- Module 3: Mirroring and Mirrored by artist fellow Andreas Schlegel
About the Programmer & Curator
Supernormal.space is an independent platform dedicated to experimental, process-driven, and cross-disciplinary practices at the intersection of art, technology and design. Founded by Ivan Lee of Modular Unit and Ong Kian Peng, Supernormal.space emphasises risk-taking, the importance of process over outcome, and the cultivation of alternative modes of exhibition-making through the artists and projects it supports. It has also hosted a range of programming including new media installations, performance, screenings and hybrid projects, shaping conversations around contemporary and media art in the region.
About the Producer
Tusitala, a Singapore-based digital storytelling studio that creates novel literary experiences and produces art and tech exhibitions and events
About the Artist Fellows
Isabella Ong is a Singapore-based artist whose work explores the relationship between data, form and environment. Working across installation, code and text, she examines how ecological, cultural and technical systems are structured and represented. Her practice engages with material processes alongside physical computation and generative methods, translating natural phenomena into spatial and visual languages.
Brandon Tay is a Singapore-born, Shanghai-based artist whose work explores the shifting boundaries between technology, fiction, and material form.Working through sculpture, simulation, and moving image, he creates objects that blur distinctions between system and symbol — between what we know and what we imagine. Tay has exhibited both individually and collaboratively at major international platforms such as the Singapore Biennale, Transmediale, the National Communications Museum (Melbourne), Art Dubai, and Frieze Seoul, among others.
Andreas Schlegel is a German-born, Singapore-based artist and educator working with code, generative systems and interactive processes. He creates installations, performances, and audio-visual works that examine human-machine interaction. His individual and collaborative works have been exhibited at venues including National Gallery Singapore, Groninger Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul among others. He teaches at LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore.
🗓️ Date & Time: 24 January 2026, 2.30pm - 3.30pm
📍Location: Artspace@Helutrans, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-05, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
🎟️ Free Admission (Registration required)
📝Register Here (Spaces are limited, secure your slot today!)
[Light refreshments provided]
How do curators navigate the expanding terrain where art, technology, and culture converge?
Interfaces: Between Worlds, Across Mediums features Clara Peh, Independent Curator; Srushti Kamat, Founder of Algae and Producer; and Tulika Ahuja, Independent Curator and Arts Strategist.
Working across institutions and independent platforms, these Singaporean curators will explore how technology becomes a lens for examining Singapore-specific themes, how they balance spectacle and substance in digital mediums, and how they enable cross-pollination between conventional and emerging art forms. Their approaches reveal the tensions of institutional backing versus independent agility, the realities of presenting technological works, and questions of scale, access, and risk.
As Singapore positions itself at the forefront of technological innovation, these curators ask: What does it mean to make art accessible and meaningful? How do we democratise emerging technologies while maintaining critical depth? Join us for a rapid-fire exploration of curatorial practice in flux, where boundaries dissolve and new interfaces emerge.
About the Programmers
Organiser: Tusitala, a Singapore-based digital storytelling studio that creates novel literary experiences and produces art and tech exhibitions and events
Guest Programmer: Shireen Marican, Curator & Systems Strategist
🗓️ Date & Time: 25 January 2026, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
📍Location: Artspace@Helutrans, 39 Keppel Rd, #01-05, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
🎟️ Free Admission (Registration required)
📝Register Here (Spaces are limited, secure your slot today!)
[Light refreshments provided]
Featuring Agung Hujatnikajennong, Ashley Hi, Celine Wong Katzman, Debbie Ding, Kathleen Ditzig, Gunalan Nadarajan, Roopesh Sitharan and more, join curators from SAW2026 and beyond as they explore the complexities of curating art and technology works. From overcoming institutional limitations to managing technical installations with experimental technologies, discover diverse curatorial strategies that balance technological possibilities with cultural specificity. Hear their thoughts on topics ranging from community-engaged arts and technology platforms, interdisciplinary research collaborations, immersive reality environments, and innovative audience engagement approaches both online and offline.
Past Events
Entangled Agencies, organised by Supernormal.space together with three artist fellows, aims to develop technical and creative competencies, encourage innovative artistic practice, and deliver impactful audience experiences. Featuring three modules consisting of artist-led workshops, talks, and lectures, participants are invited to engage in hands-on, experimental learning to critically explore how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another.
The three modules are:
- Module 1: Instructing and Instructed by artist fellow Isabella Ong
- Module 2: Generating and Generated by artist fellow Brandon Tay
- Module 3: Mirroring and Mirrored by artist fellow Andreas Schlegel
For more information about the modules including its lectures, artist talks and workshops, please refer here.
About the Programmer
Supernormal.space is an independent platform dedicated to experimental, process-driven, and cross-disciplinary practices at the intersection of art, technology and design. Founded by Ivan Lee of Modular Unit and Ong Kian Peng, Supernormal.space emphasises risk-taking, the importance of process over outcome, and the cultivation of alternative modes of exhibition-making through the artists and projects it supports. It has also hosted a range of programming including new media installations, performance, screenings and hybrid projects, shaping conversations around contemporary and media art in the region.
About the Artist Fellows
Module 1 - Isabella Ong is a Singapore-based artist whose work explores the relationship between data, form and environment. Working across installation, code and text, she examines how ecological, cultural and technical systems are structured and represented. Her practice engages with material processes alongside physical computation and generative methods, translating natural phenomena into spatial and visual languages.
Module 2 - Brandon Tay is a Singapore-born, Shanghai-based artist whose work explores the shifting boundaries between technology, fiction, and material form.Working through sculpture, simulation, and moving image, he creates objects that blur distinctions between system and symbol — between what we know and what we imagine. Tay has exhibited both individually and collaboratively at major international platforms such as the Singapore Biennale, Transmediale, the National Communications Museum (Melbourne), Art Dubai, and Frieze Seoul, among others.
Module 3 - Andreas Schlegel is a German-born, Singapore-based artist and educator working with code, generative systems and interactive processes. He creates installations, performances, and audio-visual works that examine human-machine interaction. His individual and collaborative works have been exhibited at venues including National Gallery Singapore, Groninger Museum, Tainan Art Museum, Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul among others. He teaches at LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore.
In this edition of PechaKucha, practitioners will share their work and show how they actually make things. Expect physical computing experiments, coded visuals, blinking lights, analog synthesizer patches, 3D printers that print books, and the occasional happy accident that became a breakthrough. Honest presentations about the messy, iterative process of making technology do unexpected things. What tools are they using? What circuits are they building? What art are they making? How do their brains tick?
About the Programmers
Organiser: Tusitala, a Singapore-based digital storytelling studio that creates novel literary experiences and produces art and tech exhibitions and events
Guest Programmer: Andreas Schlegel, Creative Practitioner and Head of Media Lab at Lasalle College of the Arts
Participants discovered how Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality can enhance artistic creation, documentation, and immersive installations. This session includes hands-on experience with Snap AR Glasses and mobile WebAR solutions, including AR mirror technology.
About the Speakers
Gowaaa is an XR creative agency based in Singapore that brings stories and experiences to life through art, design and AI. Co-founders, Boon and Yan, are official AR partners of Snap and Meta with access to unreleased technologies in Singapore, such as Snap's Spectacles. They have created over 500 immersive digital experiences in this exclusive demonstration.
Participants discovered key principles and techniques to 2D and 3D Mapping through demonstrations, guided exercises and hands-on experimentation, including key principles of video mapping and its creative applications through TouchDesigner to design and produce real-time visual content, calibrate and project visuals accurately on physical surfaces.
For more information about the workshop, find out here.
About the Trainer
Jules Roze, Immersive Lead at Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), is a french, montreal based multimedia artist and researcher in computer music, visual art and digital culture. He develops sensory experiences combining spatialized sound, audio-reactive visuals and light in immersive environments. His works have been presented in many places around the world, such as the Arario Museum in Seoul, the CNRS in Paris-Saclay, the Photon Foundation in Krakow, the SAT dome in Montreal or Mutek festival.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, please contact:
Hariharan Ambalavan : Hariharan_AMBALAVANAN@nac.gov.sg
Chrystal Ho : Chrystal_HO@nac.gov.sg
Catherine Tan : Catherine_TAN@nac.gov.sg