Eva Castro has curated an exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore with her research lab formAxioms at SUTD with Federico Ruberto and INTERMISSION with Yue Han Teow and Urich Lau. The exhibition, titled ‘Negentropic Fields’ is part of a project called ‘Novel Ways of Being’. The physical exhibition is open at the NGS, but you can also view the online component of the exhibition, which is a platform for the orientation and manipulation of abstract materials.

Castro commented that “This experiment is in essence a way of prototyping a platform for art collectives and for the public to construct and navigate through concepts that have spatio-temporal extensions. It is a ‘platform’ for concepts to become legible processes made of ‘blocks,’ for art’s actions to be re-organisable and to be collaborative throughout. It is also an experiment on hybrid modes of performance. The project has two main components, one online and one at the gallery:

1. an interactive archive working through a block based system expandable via “uploads”, a prototype for creating an online platform for a community of artists, a space on which we are hosting the work of 5 local artists and 5 couples of international curatorial groups/ artists. This online space will also host online performances and roundtables.
2. At the Gallery the audience will be able to navigate through a digital, multi-level, interactive experience made of non-linear environments presenting, as they got translated in spatio-temporal manners by the curatorial team, the concepts developed by 5 selected artists (the interactive spaces developed by us was made through unreal engine coupled to a Kinect so to be able to control an avatar through motion capture).

There’s also an after-stage at which fragments of the artworks could be collected either by the audience that experienced them first hand at the gallery, or they could be bid for by the public at large (as they are validated via block-chain) potentially generating revenue for artists.”

Visit the online exhibition