Techno Diversions. Nothing has to be the way it is

Synopsis

Techno Diversions. Nothing has the be the way it is explores transformative understandings of technology through the lens of artistic practices that pursue the renewal of human agency within the technosphere and the critical re-enchantment with its tools. The exhibition features new works by Chok Si Xuan, bani haykal, and Ong Kian Peng borne out of the artists’ engagement with the material, cultural, and spiritual layers of the devices, networks, and apparatuses that infiltrate the flow of contemporary life in our increasingly techno-driven society. Embracing the urgency to think critically about prevailing modes of technological development, these artists chart new paths of significance through creative frictions and acts of repurposing, disrupting, and de-centralising. Techno Diversions is the first iteration of NTU CCA Singapore’s Communities of Practice, a shapeshifting research platform that brings forth communities at the intersection of artistic practices.