NOX: Confessions of a Machine

Step into the future with NOX, a site-specific solo exhibition by visionary artist Lawrence Lek.

ArtScience Museum is presenting a solo exhibition by Lawrence Lek, one of the world’s leading contemporary artists working at the intersection of science and technology. Lek, a London-based artist, filmmaker, and musician, integrates diverse practices—architecture, gaming, video, music, and fiction—into a continuously evolving cinematic universe.

This expansive and immersive exhibition features the site-specific adaptation of Lek’s existing work, NOX (short for ‘Nonhuman Excellence’), which brings together all facets of his multidisciplinary practice on an architectural scale. Featuring interactive game stations, locative sounds, videos and specially designed scenography, you are invited to explore an anonymous smart city where the fictional AI conglomerate, Farsight Corporation, tests and trains its fleet of sentient self-driving cars.

Delving into the advanced integration of AI entities in urban life, NOX explores the problems and promises of artificial intelligence in an age of automation. It prompts reflection on questions of agency, ethics, and empathy between humans and the machines we create.

Originally commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and presented in collaboration with Farsight, NOX makes its Southeast Asian debut at ArtScience Museum. This new adaptation marks Lek’s first solo exhibition in the region and is one of ArtScience Museum’s key programme for Singapore Art Week.

© Lawrence Lek. Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London.

Originally commissioned by LAS Art Foundation, Berlin