PechaKucha @ Arts X Tech Lab - Kinetics :Forces & Feedback

For PechaKucha @ Arts x Tech Lab: Kinetics: Forces & Feedback, artists and technologists examined how invisible forces — gravitational, mechanical, and environmental — animate objects, spaces, and collective experience.

Movement is never isolated. It emerges from gravitational, mechanical, and environmental forces, and evolves through feedback between systems. This Arts x Tech PechaKucha session, Kinetics: Forces & Feedback, explored movement across scales, from machines and mechanics to planetary, living rhythms. Artists and technologists shared what sparks their fascination with movement, and gave a peek behind the scenes at the ideas, experiments, and processes that keep both their work and spirit in motion.

Kinetic practices today reveal how movement arises through systems of interaction: how forces act upon matter, how environments shape behaviour, and how feedback loops generate dynamic exchanges. Yet these systems are not autonomous; they are activated, perceived, and completed through human experience. Kinetics: Forces & Feedback invited audiences to consider movement as something we do not simply observe, but inhabit, where bodies, materials, and environments continuously respond to one another, and where feedback becomes felt, sensed, and lived.

About the Guest Programmer

Irmandy Wicaksono is a transdisciplinary engineer, artist, and designer and Director of the Soft Technologies Lab at the NUS Division of Industrial Design. He investigates functional and non-functional fibers and fabric architectures, developing knitted systems with sensing, actuation, and computational capabilities that bridge physical and digital experiences.

Guest Speakers: Chok Si Xuan, Edwin Cheong, Ruobing and Sai, Shaoyu Cai, Yang Jie