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Entangled Agencies brings together new commissions and process-led works emerging from an intensive programme that examines how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another. Organised by supernormal.space and Tusitala, the exhibition reframes computational systems not as neutral tools or accelerants, but as active agents shaping authorship, labour, and meaning. Artist-fellows Isabella Ong (@isabella_ong_ ), Brandon Tay (@brozm ), Andreas Schlegel (@sojamo ) and Aditi Neti (@functionditi ) present newly commissioned works developed through workshops and lectures exploring instruction, co-authorship, feedback, and reflection across generative code, AI systems, and interactive processes. Their practices foreground experimentation, material thinking, and critical engagement with machine intelligence. Alongside these commissions, works by open-call artists Harper Chew and Hoe Jian Wei reflect trajectories shaped through collective learning and dialogue during the programme. Together, the exhibition presents entanglement not as abstraction, but as lived, iterative practice—where creativity emerges through shared agency between human intention and computational processes. 📅 Exhibition: 22–31 Jan 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm 📍 Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St 🗣️ Curator’s tours: 25 Jan (Sun), 2pm | 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm 🎉 Closing reception: 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm | Performances start at 8pm Register for our programme via links in bio! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative Visual by @print.centre_ #EntangledAgencies #ArtsxTech #SingaporeArt ContemporaryArt​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Entangled Agencies brings together new commissions and process-led works emerging from an intensive programme that examines how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another. Organised by supernormal.space and Tusitala, the exhibition reframes computational systems not as neutral tools or accelerants, but as active agents shaping authorship, labour, and meaning. Artist-fellows Isabella Ong (@isabella_ong_ ), Brandon Tay (@brozm ), Andreas Schlegel (@sojamo ) and Aditi Neti (@functionditi ) present newly commissioned works developed through workshops and lectures exploring instruction, co-authorship, feedback, and reflection across generative code, AI systems, and interactive processes. Their practices foreground experimentation, material thinking, and critical engagement with machine intelligence. Alongside these commissions, works by open-call artists Harper Chew and Hoe Jian Wei reflect trajectories shaped through collective learning and dialogue during the programme. Together, the exhibition presents entanglement not as abstraction, but as lived, iterative practice—where creativity emerges through shared agency between human intention and computational processes. 📅 Exhibition: 22–31 Jan 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm 📍 Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St 🗣️ Curator’s tours: 25 Jan (Sun), 2pm | 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm 🎉 Closing reception: 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm | Performances start at 8pm Register for our programmes via links in bio! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative Visuals by @print.centre_ #EntangledAgencies #ArtsxTech #SingaporeArt ContemporaryArt​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Entangled Agencies brings together new commissions and process-led works emerging from an intensive programme that examines how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another. Organised by supernormal.space and Tusitala, the exhibition reframes computational systems not as neutral tools or accelerants, but as active agents shaping authorship, labour, and meaning. Artist-fellows Isabella Ong (@isabella_ong_ ), Brandon Tay (@brozm ), Andreas Schlegel (@sojamo ) and Aditi Neti (@functionditi ) present newly commissioned works developed through workshops and lectures exploring instruction, co-authorship, feedback, and reflection across generative code, AI systems, and interactive processes. Their practices foreground experimentation, material thinking, and critical engagement with machine intelligence. Alongside these commissions, works by open-call artists Harper Chew and Hoe Jian Wei reflect trajectories shaped through collective learning and dialogue during the programme. Together, the exhibition presents entanglement not as abstraction, but as lived, iterative practice—where creativity emerges through shared agency between human intention and computational processes. 📅 Exhibition: 22–31 Jan 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm 📍 Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St 🗣️ Curator’s tours: 25 Jan (Sun), 2pm | 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm 🎉 Closing reception: 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm | Performances start at 8pm Register for our programmes via links in bio! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative Visual by @print.centre_ #EntangledAgencies #ArtsxTech #SingaporeArt ContemporaryArt​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

ENTANGLED AGENCIES: PROGRAMME WRAP-UP 🤖✨🪞 Entangled Agencies culminated in an exhibition at Arts x Tech Lab from 22–31 January 2026, welcoming over 400 visitors who engaged with newly commissioned works by the artist-fellows alongside pieces by open-call artists Harper Chew and Hoe Jian Wei. As part of Singapore Art Week, we were also featured on the Arts x Tech SAW Bus, connecting audiences across the city to innovative intersections of art and technology. On 29 Jan, we were honoured to host NAC staff for a special viewing and welcomed over 40 attendees at our reception, complete with wine from @glugglug.sg . The evening featured a captivating performance by Patrick Hartono (@patrick_hartono ), whose audiovisual synthesis fused traditional Indonesian instruments with computer-generated sounds and generative visuals—demonstrating the programme’s core themes of human-machine entanglement through immersive sonic experience. Curator Ong Kian Peng also led two tours on 25 and 31 January, guiding participants through an in-depth exploration of the exhibiting works. Thank you to our artist fellows, participants, guest artists, visitors, and supporters for making this programme possible. Participating Artists - @isabella_ong_ , @brozm , @sojamo , @functionditi , @harchewy , @done_with_midas Performer - @patrick_hartono Photography - @thekytstudio Team - @chrispychong @snat.ty @jeraldlxz Design - @print.centre_ Venue - @artshousegroup As part of @sgartweek Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #ArtsxTech #SingaporeArtWeek #Singapore

MODULE 3 REFLECTION: MIRRORING AND MIRRORED🪞💫 In Module 3, we explored the mirror as both metaphor and medium—examining how identity, perception, and technological mediation co-produce one another. Led by artist-fellow Andreas Schlegel, this module asked: how do interactive systems shape our self-perception and relational ethics? In his lecture and artist talk on 8 January 2026, Andreas drew from Lacan’s mirror stage to position interactive art as a conversation between self-perception and external feedback. Tracing a lineage from Dan Graham’s feedback installations to contemporary works by Memo Akten and Rebecca Fiebrink— the mirror recurs as an intelligent surface mediating sensory experience and symbolic meaning. Guest artist Aditi Neti expanded this exploration into biotechnological domains, examining how interactive systems make space for slowness and care, proposing that living materials and cultural memory also serve as mirrors reflecting our relational ethics. Their workshops on 10 & 17 January 2026 transformed these concepts into hands-on practice. Using webcam input in p5.js, participants explored motion tracking through pose detection. The first workshop introduced the slit-scan technique, blending temporal distortion with performative immediacy. Participants explored templates tracking body keypoints, experimenting with the camera as creative partner. The second workshop introduced machine-learning classifiers, echoing Rebecca Fiebrink’s Wekinator. Participants trained models recognizing gestures, linking poses to trigger sound and visuals. Discussions explored how recognition confidence could translate into expressive variation—discovering poetry in the imperfect space between human gesture and machine interpretation. Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab #EntangledAgencies #AndreasSchlegel #AditiNeti #ArtsxTech #Singapore

ENTANGLED AGENCIES MODULE 2 REFLECTION: GENERATING AND GENERATED 🌐✨ In Module 2, we shifted from instruction to infrastructure—exploring how artistic worldbuilding emerges through computational systems that generate form, behavior, and meaning. Led by artist-fellow Brandon Tay, this module asked: what happens when we design not objects, but generative engines that author themselves? In his lecture and artist talk on 11 December 2025, Brandon examined mythbuilding infrastructure, drawing from Yuk Hui, Keller Easterling, and Eduardo Kohn to position technology as world disclosure—where human and nonhuman agencies co-produce reality. Through projects like Model C: Marrow Codex, he demonstrated recursive ecosystems: artworks begetting texts, spawning simulations, producing new objects. Guest artist-lecturer Flora Weil expanded worldbuilding into worlding as translation. From Aweigh, an open-source navigation device questioning satellite dependency, to bio-hybrid robotics translating cellular growth into mechanical motion, Flora framed innovation as building around constraints. Together, both speakers proposed a shift: from performing individuality to designing collectivity. Brandon’s workshops on 13 & 20 December 2025 introduced ComfyUI and TouchDesigner as modular systems for generative synthesis. Participants explored ComfyUI’s node-based interface, learning how text prompts, seeds, and samplers transform latent noise into visual structure. Through adjustments to controlnets and fixed seeds, they observed how outputs stabilized or mutated. The second workshop, focusing on TouchDesigner, had participants examining TOPs, CHOPs, and SOPs to animate geometry. Participants also explored Low-Rank Adaptation (LORA) for training smaller AI models. Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab #EntangledAgencies #BrandonTay #FloraWeil #ArtsxTech #Singapore

OPEN CALL ARTISTS — HARPER CHEW & HOE JIAN WEI 📅🌶️ Selected from our workshop participants, Harper Chew and Hoe Jian Wei present works that emerged through collective learning and dialogue during the programme. Machine Almanac by Harper Chew (@harchewy ) stages timekeeping as a shared ritual between human and machine. Through the simple act of tearing a calendar page, the human marks temporal passage, triggering an algorithmic response: a quatrain generated from Chinese horological concepts the system does not understand. Meaning emerges not from the machine’s “wisdom,” but from the viewer’s interpretive projection. The work constructs a loop of distributed agency, questioning where ritual, authorship, and sense-making reside when temporal knowledge is co-produced by embodied gesture and computational process. Information Entropy in a Sambal Recipe by Hoe Jian Wei (@done_with_midas ) contrasts industrial modernity’s fixation on standardisation with agak-agak, the intuitive, embodied logic of heritage cooking. While modern kitchens rely on precision and repeatability, agak-agak operates through sensing, adjustment, and tacit knowledge. Using an AI-driven receipt printer to generate sambal recipes, the project reframes large language models as computational analogues of this practice. Rather than measuring ingredients, the AI predicts through probabilistic consensus, revealing unexpected continuities between ancestral intuition and contemporary machine intelligence. 📍 Entangled Agencies @ Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #HarperChew #HoeJianWei #ArtsxTech

ANDREAS SCHLEGEL & ADITI NETI — NARCIS LUDO 🪞🎮 Narcis Ludo examines the contemporary self through computational mediation, reframing body and identity as sites of algorithmic play. Reworking the myth of Narcissus for an era of AI vision, the project adopts the ludic as a critical, playful strategy. AI functions as medium, interface, and playground, enabling coded experiments where bodies, images, and data are continuously reconfigured. Initiated by Andreas Schlegel and Aditi Neti, the work explores how algorithms generate new possibility spaces for self-perception and presence today. Andreas Schlegel (@sojamo ) is a German-born, Singapore-based artist and educator working with code, generative systems, and interactive processes. His installations, performances, and audiovisual works examine human–machine interaction. Aditi Neti (@functionditi ) examines how interactive systems can make space for slowness and care, crafting bio-interfaces and collaborative rituals that foreground reciprocity and embodied knowledge. 📍 Entangled Agencies | 22–31 Jan Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, 02-05, 28 Aliwal St 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm Join us for: Curator’s Tour — 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm Register via link in bio! Curated by @voidness__ Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #AndreasSchlegel #AditiNeti #ArtsxTech #SAW2026

BRANDON TAY — HEX STATE SERVER 🔮💻 HEX STATE SERVER reframes divination as computation. Drawing from the I Ching, it operates as a generative engine that replaces intuition with machinic agency, cycling through 64 hex-states to model tensions between inner conditions and external systems. Every two minutes, the work recalculates an “ontological weather,” altering simulated atmospheres, physics, and light. Through daemonic processes, speculative vignettes emerge—ghost cities, sentient infrastructures, algorithmic labor—suggesting that contemporary truth is no longer sensed, but continuously computed in anticipation of itself within recursive technological cosmologies today. Brandon Tay (@brozm ) is a Singapore-born, Shanghai-based artist exploring the boundaries between technology, fiction, and material form. Working across sculpture, simulation, and moving image, he creates objects that blur systems and symbols. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Singapore Biennale, Transmediale, the National Communications Museum, Art Dubai, and Frieze Seoul. 📍 Entangled Agencies | 22–31 Jan Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm Join us for: Exhibition Reception & Performance by Patrick Hartono — 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm Curator’s Tour — 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm Register via links in bio! Curated by @voidness__ Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #BrandonTay #ArtsxTech #SAW2026

ISABELLA ONG — CONDITIONS ALONG AN UNDERSEA LINE 🌊🗺 Conditions Along an Undersea Line traces the origins of Southeast Asia’s telecommunication infrastructure through a material and computational re-reading of the first submarine cable linking Singapore and Batavia. Archival maps and voyage logs are translated into algorithmically advected oceanic paths, etched onto copper using gutta-percha resist. By fusing historical labour, natural materials, and contemporary data systems, the work reveals how colonial-era signal routes persist within today’s fibre-optic networks, where communication, extraction, and oceanic forces remain deeply entangled. Isabella Ong (@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. 📍 Entangled Agencies | 22–31 Jan Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm Join us for: 💻 Exhibition Reception — 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm 🗣 Curator’s Tour — 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm Register via links in bio! Curated by @voidness__ Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #IsabellaOng #ArtsxTech #saw2026

ENTANGLED AGENCIES — RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE 🎉 Join us for our reception featuring a special performance by Patrick Hartono (@patrick_hartono )! 🎭 RECEPTION & PERFORMANCE 📅 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm 🎵 Performance starts at 8pm 📍 Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St Patrick Hartono’s creative process integrates technology and computational methodologies to explore disciplines such as electroacoustic music, generative visuals, NIME, and creative machine learning. His works fuse traditional Indonesian instruments, computer-generated sounds, visuals, and field recordings, crafted through mathematical principles, real-time interactions, and controlled randomness, resulting in immersive sonic and audiovisual experiences. In his audiovisual practice, he explores what he calls audiovisual synthesis—integrating visual synthesis, generative processes, and visual manipulation akin to acousmatic music with video materials, aiming to explore the notion of added value, where the coexistence of sonic and visual elements generates perceptual value for each other. Beyond his artistic practices, Patrick contributes to the field of computer music, serving as a board member for the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) and the Australasia Computer Music Association. His works have been featured at international festivals and conferences worldwide, including ICMC, YCMF, WOCMAT, Sound Bridge Festival, ZKM, IRCAM, NYCEMF, Sound Image, ACL, Gaudeamus, Sonorities Festival (SARC), ACMC, BEAST, CCRMA (Stanford), KEAMSAC, NIME, ilicon (Harvard), Ars Electronica, and many more. Register via link in bio! —— Entangled Agencies Exhibition is open 22–31 Jan 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm 📅 Curator’s Tour 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm Curated by @voidness__ Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #PatrickHartono #ArtsxTech SAW2026

ENTANGLED AGENCIES EXHIBITION — NOW OPEN 🎨🤖 The exhibition is here! Join us as we explore how humans and machines co-create, instruct, and learn from one another through new commissions and process-led works. 📅 Exhibition: 22–31 Jan 🕐 Tue–Fri, 12–6pm | Sat–Sun, 12–7pm 📍 Arts x Tech Lab, Aliwal Arts Centre, #02-05, 28 Aliwal St ✨ UPCOMING PROGRAMMES — REGISTER VIA LINKS IN BIO: 📅 Curator’s Tours 25 Jan (Sun), 2pm | 31 Jan (Sat), 2pm Join us for a curator’s tour by Ong Kian peng (@voidness__ ) to dive deeper into the works and ideas behind Entangled Agencies. 🎉 Closing Reception & Performances 29 Jan (Thu), 7pm | Performance by @patrick_hartono starts at 8pm — ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Artist-fellows Isabella Ong (@isabella_ong_ ), Brandon Tay (@brozm ), Andreas Schlegel (@sojamo ), and Aditi Neti (@functionditi ) present newly commissioned works developed through workshops and lectures exploring instruction, co-authorship, feedback, and reflection across generative code, AI systems, and interactive processes. Alongside these commissions, open-call artists Harper Chew (@harperchewy ) and Hoe Jian Wei (@done_with_midas ) contribute works shaped through collective learning and dialogue during the programme. Together, the exhibition presents entanglement not as abstraction, but as lived, iterative practice—where creativity emerges through shared agency between human intention and computational processes. Don’t miss out—register for our programmes via links in bio! Organised by @supernormal.space Produced by @tusitala.sg Supported by @nacsingapore Arts x Tech Lab initiative #EntangledAgencies #ArtsxTech #SingaporeArt #ContemporaryArt