Featuring Agung Hujatnikajennong, Ashley Hi, Celine Wong Katzman, Debbie Ding, Kathleen Ditzig, Gunalan Nadarajan, Roopesh Sitharan and more, the roundtable brought together curators from SAW2026 and beyond to explore the complexities of curating art and technology works. From overcoming institutional limitations to managing technical installations with experimental technologies, they shared diverse curatorial strategies that balance technological possibilities with cultural specificity. They also shared 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.

Featuring Gunalan Nadarajan (Art theorist, Curator), Sabine Himmelsbach (Director of House of Electronic Arts (HEK)), and Victoria Ivanova (Head of Innovation at Serpentine Galleries), the panel discussion examined the complex relationship between arts institutions and technology-driven creative practices. It explored how parallel platforms have emerged to support digital art when traditional museums fall short, and discovered innovative curatorial approaches that bridge conventional art spaces with technological innovation. Panellists also addressed 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.

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

Entangled Agencies, organised by Supernormal.space and produced by Tusitala, 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 culminated in an exhibition that presented the fellows’ works alongside a small, curated selection of projects developed by programme participants.

Featuring three modules consisting of artist-led workshops, talks, and lectures, participants were 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 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

For more information about the modules including its lectures, artist talks and workshops, please refer here.

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.

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.