Art and Tech Takes Over
Let's get digital! From inspiring talks to groundbreaking exhibitions, experience tech-driven creativity unfolding across the city. Throughout SAW, dive into the intersections between Art and Technology through insightful conversations, pressing concerns, and potential strategies.
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Art x Tech Talks
Artist Panel: Imaging Worlds, Worlding Imagineries
World-building, the practice of creating worlds through transmedia storytelling, has transformed as technology advances. Join our panel of artists who have imagined and constructed worlds during SAW to discuss the social, cultural, political and technological concerns in their works. Explore the ways emerging technologies figure in constructing and disruptively revealing the possibilities and limits of world-building.
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Panel Discussion: Places, Platforms, Practices: Mediating Art and Technology
Join our panel discussion examining the complex relationship between arts institutions and technology-driven creative practices. Explore how parallel platforms have emerged to support digital art when traditional museums fall short, and discover innovative curatorial approaches that bridge conventional art spaces with technological innovation.
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Panel Discussion: SAW Art&Tech Artists Panel
Featuring a selection of artists from SAW2026 working at the intersections of art and technology, this panel discussion will expand on their artistic processes and concerns in their works. Join us for this conversation and gain an intimate glimpse into the methods, perspectives and unique challenges they navigate in their art.
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Roundtable: Curatorial Huddle on Art and Technology
Join curators from SAW2026 and beyond as they explore the complexities of curating art and technology works. From overcoming institutional limitations to managing technical installations with experimental technologies, discover diverse curatorial strategies that balance technological possibilities with cultural specificity.
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Conversation: Who's Afraid of AI?
Join our speakers in a conversation discussing the impact of AI on our culture in the future. Going beyond apprehension and enthusiasm about what AI portends for our lives, the speakers delve into the implications of AI on artistic practices and the cultural landscape. Artists, curators, AI technological researchers gather for a conversation on AI and its tensions and alignments with culture and the larger community.
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Panel Discussion: Engendering Visions: Women, Art and Technology
This panel brings artists and a cultural theorist working on the intersections of women, art and technology. With an increasing awareness of the role of women in the development of technology and growing presence of women working with new and emerging technologies, this forum presents their distinct voices, methods and perspectives.
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Art x Tech Programmes to catch!
chapalang
At chapalang, creative reconfigurings and vernacular appropriations of technologies in Southeast Asia are gathered here to speculate on the radical potential of such cultural practices. During SAW, chapalang presents 4 public programmes: Artist Panel Discussion, Curatorial Walkthrough by Gunalan Nadarajan and Roopesh Sitharan, Hacking Readymades Workshop by Haris Abadi, and An Improvised Ensembl-age Workshop by Yang Jie. Registration required.
Padimai Art and Tech Studio Presentation and Tour
Padimai Art and Tech Studio is an independent, experimental space where artists, technologists, and thinkers come together to imagine new modes of creation, collaboration, and cultural preservation through exhibitions, residencies, and commissions. This talk will present the space, its founding objectives and ambitions followed by a tour of the space and its current exhibition, Your view matter (2022/2025), a VR artwork by Olafur Eliasson.
The 6th VH AWARD
Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned works across various global platforms. For SAW 2026, the 6th VH AWARD presents five commissioned artworks by the finalists.
Where Art Takes Shape
Now in its fourth edition, Where Art Takes Shape returns to Marina Bay Sands for Singapore Art Week 2026, transforming the integrated resort into a dynamic stage for creativity. Guests can discover bold exhibitions at ArtScience Museum, captivating performances and culinary innovations created and curated through art. Celebrating imagination and community, Where Art Takes Shape redefines perspectives and offers fresh encounters with art, culture and hospitality.
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NOX by Lawrence Lek
Step into the future at ArtScience Museum with NOX, a site-specific solo exhibition by visionary artist Lawrence Lek. Blending architecture, gaming, music, and film, NOX imagines a smart city where an AI conglomerate trains sentient self-driving cars. Making its Southeast Asia debut, the exhibition explores the ethical and emotional complexities of artificial intelligence in an age of automation.
Another World is Possible
In contrast to the dystopian tone common in Western popular culture, Singapore treats the future as something to be designed, debated, and actively constructed. This sensibility is woven through the exhibition's architecture, design, and art - from WOHA's biodiverse vertical cities to Pomeroy Studio's floating farms.
Mother's Body Remembers
Mother’s Body Remembers presents an intimate XR family portraiture where the artist traces his aging parents’ bodies with a VR device, preserving conversations that carry both tenderness and grief.
Reworlding
Reworlding brings together seven Asian female media artists who treat virtuality, technology, and digital systems not as glossy, seamless futures, but as worlds that must be continually rebuilt, patched, mourned, or misused.
Your View Matter
Your View Matter is a virtual-reality artwork by Olafur Eliasson guiding visitors through six immersive spaces; five Platonic solids and a sphere, accompanied by a minimalist soundtrack.
Ground Loops
This exhibition and accompanying series of experimental workshops features Singapore and New York-based artists and teachers critically engaged with language, archives, and contemporary technologies.
