Biography: Mike HJ Chang

Mike HJ Chang is a Taiwanese American. He received his B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He is currently an art educator living in Singapore, where he also runs a small art space in called FOXRIVER.  Recently he exhibited his work at Post Museum and TickleArt in Singapore, and Dobaebacsa in Seoul, South Korea. Chang is currently working on multi-disciplinary projects entitled Is What and Night, and a Circular Room.  Both projects deal with the conflict of illustration and text, and the process of letting it become an analogy for the anxiety of art making. 

website: http://boatship.net/

email: booimpact@hotmail.com

Biography: Chun Kai Qun

Chun Kai Qun is concerned with the anxieties and desires of individuals living in contemporary society. He brings into play the art of miniature making, creating cataclysmic explosions, reminiscent of sensationalist blockbuster action flicks or video games. The perverse violence and gory carnality of the spectacle is trivialized and detached by means of miniaturization in his work, highlighting the anesthesia that decadent society has unconsciously induced in us.

He received his art education from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, majoring in printmaking. Chun has actively participated in various art exhibitions and projects including Art Stage Singapore (2011), Utopia Highway at the Esplanade Concourse (2010), TransportAsian at the Singapore Art Museum (2009), Lost in the City at the National Museum of Singapore (2009) and the 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (Art Exchange Program) (2009).

Email: chunkaiqun@gmail.com

Website: www.chunkaiqun.com, www.unfinishedadventures.wordpress.com

Biography: Debbie Ding

Debbie Ding (b. 1984, Singapore) is an artist and cartographer who likes mapping and visualising spaces whether they be real or imaginary. She graduated with a B.A (Hons) in English Literature from National University of Singapore in 2007, but currently works as an independent illustrator and interactive designer/programmer. Through her work Ding investigates how the built environment in cities such as Singapore and London affects patterns of human interaction with urban space.

Ding held her first solo exhibition "\\ : The Singapore River as a Psychogeographical Faultline" at The Substation Gallery (Singapore) in September 2010 as part of The Substation Open Call 2010.

website: http://dreamsyntax.org/

Biography: Joo Choon Lin

Joo Choon Lin (b. 1984) makes experimental stop-motion animation across various disciplines, including drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Her work incorporates live action and localised contexts to create narratives that blur fact and fiction. For her, the sketches also take the form of sculptural maquette. Joo’s drawings are spontaneous, as she nurtures her story each day with make-belief and with surreal consequences. In flux, every ‘new’ drawing (new frame in this case) contains a residual memory of the previous drawing—haunting and scar-like. Every subsequent frame escapes, and dissipates from the previous: One event leads to the next without a script. While not deliberate, there is a concurrent mood of escapism and introspection in Joo’s work, reflecting the artist’s nonchalant attitude to the hype of new media, preferring something more material and craft-like. Joo has exhibited work locally and internationally, participating in shows such as 4^th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Japan (2009), 1^st Aichi Triennale, Japan (2010) and Roving Eye at Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway (2011).

Biography: Elizabeth Lim

Elizabeth Lim (b. 1992, Singapore) has grown up being exposed to the eclectic society of Singapore. She has been traveling since the age of 1, which may contribute to her strong interest in the interactions between culture and people from different walks of life. Elizabeth enjoys creating works that are simple, straightforward, and depict an honest reflection of the Artist and her ideas. She enjoys traveling, several different sports, humour and honesty in Art, and being a Singaporean flâneur, which is also reflected in her works. Her upcoming projects are concerned with trying to expand the definitions of "Singaporean Art". More importantly, she is investigating the endless potential and possibilities Art and its mediums have to offer her. She further develops herself, first as a human being then as an Artist, to uncover what she has to offer Art.

Biography: Yuzuru Maeda

Yuzuru Maeda was born in Ogaki, Japan and currently lives in Singapore. She received her BA from the LaSalle Collage of Arts (2009), and has been involved with producing soundtracks, jingles and music compositions for independent films and video works. Yuzuru's music is influenced by Jazz, Hindustani classical, Carnatic, Hindi film songs, Japanese and experimental music, citing La Monte Young, Arlo Guthrie and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan as her main inspirations. She performs with Sanshin (Japanese) and Sarod (Indian), and has played at various local and international events: Choppa (Singapore, 2007), Black Market (Singapore, 2009), Rights, Osage Gallary (Singapore, 2009), Open Art Festival (Beijing, 2009), Sugar Jar (Beijing, 2009), Mekong River Project (Bangkok, 2009), Post Museum (Singapore, 2010), Sculpture Society, Fort Canon (Singapore, 2011).

website: http://yuzuru.weebly.com

Biography: Bruce Quek

Bruce Quek is a young artist who works with whatever seems appropriate at the time, often producing things that don't seem to mean anything. This tendency might be traced to his training in sculpture at LASALLE, which often saw him scrounging for serendipitous pieces of scrap metal. His projects tend to take the distribution and dissemination of information as starting points for various conceptual investigations, critiques of artistic infrastructure, and other wanderings. He takes an interest in many things, but maintains an unhealthy fascination with emergent behaviour, pathological transference, and puns. All of his endeavours are frequently threatened by the seductive allure of reading random things online, out of a vague belief in the value of consuming as much information as possible.

Biography: Zai Tang

Zai Tang situates his creative practise somewhere in between the paths of music, art and philosophy. The thrust of his recent projects focus on the evolving relationship between sound and space, in both real and imagined environments. His work investigates how developing a greater awareness of sound can contribute to more dynamic states of being and enrich our experience of place.

He applies a multidisciplinary approach to art making, adapting to whatever means best suits his ideas; whether experimenting with turntable and vinyl records in a live setting, creating immersive site-specific installations or sound composition for film and theatre. Zai studied BA Creative Music Technology at Bath Spa University, and completed his post-graduate in Digital Arts at Camberwell College of Arts. Since 2006 Zai has been exhibiting work and performing in Singapore, London and most notably Venice; collaborating with Tang Da Wu in developing a multimedia sculptural installation at the Singapore Pavilion for the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007).

email: email@zaitang.com

website: www.zaitang.com

Biography: Mark Thia

Biography: Mark Wong Wenwei

Mark Wong Wenwei (b. 1982, Singapore), works in and with sound to devise listening strategies for new and intense possibilities of being. His practice is diverse, including improvised rock, electro-pop and electro-acoustic performances, compositions for film and dance, gallery installations, free-form radio shows and live DJ-spinning. He has performed and exhibited at various local and international events, including the Hong Kong City Festival (2006), notthatbalai art festival, KL (2007), Electricity: International Symposium on Electronic Art (2008), Masriadi: Black is My Last Weapon (2008), Studio in Cheras, KL: Open Lab (2008), Choppa Series (2008-09), Month's End Music @ FINDARS, KL (2009), Cityscapes: Singapore Design Festival (2009) and Open House! (2011). Mark also writes on sound and music and has been published in The Wire (UK), Substation Magazine (SG), BigO (SG), Independent Artists Club (MY) and Junk (MY).

Email: kulturslut@gmail.com

Website: markwong.bandcamp.com