Talks at ArtScience Museum

Connect with ArtScience Museum's dedicated programming track for talks at the museum and online. Join us as we hear from leading local and international speakers from diverse backgrounds who discuss ideas and share insights on topics such as futures thinking, environmental sustainability, diversity and inclusion, art and technology, and more.

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    Art/Science Symposium 2022

    16 Nov, 11am – 6pm
     

    A symposium hosted by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, in partnership with ArtScience Museum and NUS Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk.

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    Conversations: Headspace

    3 Sep, 2pm – 5.10pm
     

    Organised as the opening event of MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing, Conversations: Headspace brings together researchers, artists and curators of the exhibition to discuss a range of perspectives on mental health and wellbeing through their practices, advocacy work and lived experiences.

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    Conversations: In the Company of Trees

    28 May, 2pm – 6.25pm
     

    Delve into the art and science of trees in this mini-symposium organised on the occasion of the launch of We Live in an Ocean of Air at ArtScience Museum.

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Hope from Chaos Talks

Three years into the pandemic, artists and scientists contemplate isolation and innovation in this companion talk series of Hope from Chaos exhibition.
  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Professor Lam Yeng Ming

    Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Professor Lam Yeng Ming

     

    Professor Lam Yeng Ming (Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at NTU Singapore) shares strategies in nanotechnology that can be repurposed to act against COVID-19, as well as sustainability-driven innovation in materials science that draws on the research of NTU scientists.

     

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  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Luke Jerram

    Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Luke Jerram
     

    Luke Jerram shares how his Glass Microbiology artworks question the global impact of deadly diseases, challenging observers to reconsider their view of viruses and pathogens.

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  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Cao Fei

    Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Cao Fei
     

    Chinese contemporary artist Cao Fei discusses how her work, Isle of Instability, responds at a personal level to her time living under pandemic lockdown with her family.

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  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Professor Lam Yeng Ming
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  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Cao Fei
  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Professor Lam Yeng Ming
  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Luke Jerram
  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Cao Fei
  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Professor Lam Yeng Ming
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  • Hope from Chaos: In Conversation with Cao Fei

Radical Curiosity Talks

Accompanying Radical Curiosity: In the Orbit of Buckminster Fuller is a series of online talks that considers the profoundly relevant legacy of one of the greatest minds of our times, Richard Buckminster Fuller.
  • Radical Curiosity: Curators in Dialogue with Rosa Pera and José Luis de Vicente
    Radical Curiosity: Curators in Dialogue with Rosa Pera and José Luis de Vicente

    Presented by Rosa Pera and José Luis de Vicente (guest curators of Radical Curiosity), the inaugural lecture takes us through the universe of the unclassifiable investigator and visionary who, throughout the 20th century, foresaw the major crises of the 21st century.
     
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  • The Future is Always First an Idea – Charu Kokate

    The Future is Always First an Idea – Charu Kokate

    Charu Kokate (Partner at Safdie Architects and Director of the Singapore office), who led on and oversaw the construction of iconic and complex structures including Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Jewel Changi Airport and Sky Habitat Residential Towers, headlines the second session in an online talks series accompanying Radical Curiosity: In the Orbit of Buckminster Fuller.

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  • Remembering Fuller with Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat

    Remembering Fuller with Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat

    Pioneer architect Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat unfolds the regional story of Buckminster Fuller through the more than decade-long friendship which they shared.

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  • The Future is Always First an Idea – Charu Kokate
  • Remembering Fuller with Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat
  • Radical Curiosity: Curators in Dialogue with Rosa Pera and José Luis de Vicente
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  • Remembering Fuller with Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat
  • Radical Curiosity: Curators in Dialogue with Rosa Pera and José Luis de Vicente
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Orchestral Manoeuvres Talks

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres: Curators in Dialogue with Adrian George and Amita Kirpalani
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    6 Oct, 4pm

    Orchestral Manoeuvres: Curators in Dialogue with Adrian George and Amita Kirpalani

    Join the curators of Orchestral Manoeuvres: See Sound. Feel Sound. Be Sound for an in-depth look at the themes and ideas explored in this exhibition that expands how we think about, experience and understand sound.

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  • Adrian George (Director, Exhibitions and Museum Services at ArtScience Museum)

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    (Director, Exhibitions and Museum Services at ArtScience Museum)

  • Amita Kirpalani (Curator at ArtScience Museum)

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  • Adrian George (Director, Exhibitions and Museum Services at ArtScience Museum)
  • Amita Kirpalani (Curator at ArtScience Museum)

Special Event: Gameplay

  • Games as a Medium for Artistic Expression

    6 Sep, 10am
    Games as a Medium for Artistic Expression

    Hear from Kevin Prior, Senior Lecturer in Game Software Design and Production, as he shares about how art and science can create immersive and emotional forms of storytelling. His talk will cover the history of games as expressive media, the main components that make games a unique and interesting medium, and some challenges and opportunities those who wish to pursue this medium may face.

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  • Panel Discussion with DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore Alumni

    7 Sep, 8pm – 9.15pm
    Panel Discussion with DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore Alumni

    Hear from DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore alumni as they discuss easy and accessible ways to approach game development.

    In this panel discussion, they will share stories and challenges faced in their personal journey and how everyone can be a game designer!

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  • ABCs of Healthy Video Gaming

    10 Sep
    ABCs of Healthy Video Gaming

    Learn about the benefits of video gaming while debunking common misconceptions with Elyna, and Pauline from SOOS OIO!

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  • Games as a Medium for Expressing Cultural Values

    13 Sep, 10am
    Games as a Medium for Expressing Cultural Values

    Cultural values and socio-political implications of games are important topics of discussions for the fields of humanities and social sciences. As educators at DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore, Ms Shanthina and Dr. Sim Jiaying encourage students to make games that consider social issues and increase cultural awareness. 

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  • Future Gaming Conference

    14 & 15 Sep, 3pm – 5pm
    Future Gaming Conference

    Join us to explore how videogames are changing the world right now and discuss transformative ideas that are shaping the future of one of the most exciting media.

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  • Games as a Medium for Artistic Expression
  • Panel Discussion with DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore Alumni
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  • Games as a Medium for Artistic Expression
  • Panel Discussion with DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore Alumni
  • ABCs of Healthy Video Gaming
  • Games as a Medium for Expressing Cultural Values
  • Future Gaming Conference
  • Games as a Medium for Artistic Expression
  • Panel Discussion with DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore Alumni
  • ABCs of Healthy Video Gaming
  • Games as a Medium for Expressing Cultural Values
  • Future Gaming Conference

Expanded Realities Conversations

  • Expanded Realities Conversations with Daniel Birnbaum and Honor Harger

    27 Jul, 8pm

    Expanded Realities Conversations with Daniel Birnbaum and Honor Harger

    Join us to imagine the future possibilities of contemporary art and technology as we explore how extended reality is transforming museums in inexplicable ways.

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    13 Jul, 8pm

    Expanded Realities Conversations with Robin McNicholas and Sarah Ellis

    Discover how creative directors and producers are working in blended reality spaces and creating new paradigms for how immersive storytelling can be experienced.

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  • Expanded Realities Conversations with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Patrick Moran

    17 Jun, 8pm

    Expanded Realities Conversations with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Patrick Moran

    Join us to explore how videogames are evolving beyond the screen and introducing new encounters that connect virtual and physical worlds in extraordinary ways.

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  • Expanded Realities Conversations with Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Patrick Moran
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Climate Conversations

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    10 Mar, 8pm - 9pm

    Join us in the concluding Climate Conversations talk featuring prominent ecologist and President of Nature Society (Singapore), Dr Shawn Kaihekulani Yamauchi Lum. He will share about the efforts by Nature Society focused on marine conservation and coastal clean-up, and how we can play a role in protecting our marine environments and biodiversity.

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  • Cynthia Doumbia

    6 Oct, 8.30pm

    The series launched with a talk by Cynthia Doumbia (Director, International Exhibitions at National Geographic Society), who spoke about how this multi-year initiative harnesses storytelling to tackle the global plastic waste crisis and effect meaningful change.

     

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  • Intan Suci Nurhati

    20 Oct, 5pm

    Intan Suci Nurhati (senior researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences’ Research Center for Oceanography and National Geographic Explorer) highlighted issues in plastics management and her recent research work on the rising tide of pandemic-driven plastic waste.

     

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  • Mandy Barker

    26 Nov, 5pm

    Mandy Barker (photographer and National Geographic Explorer), whose work involving marine plastic debris has received global recognition, shared how she has been working alongside marine scientists to transform data on ocean plastics into arresting collages of pollution.

     

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  • Lian Pin Koh

    26 Jan, 5pm

    Renowned conservation scientist Lian Pin Koh (Director of the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions at National University of Singapore) joins us in the penultimate talk to speak about how a better understanding of the potential and limits of nature-based climate solutions is needed to help inform our climate policy and investment decisions.

     

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Feeling the Future Talks

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    4 Aug

    Feeling the Future Talk with Tong Yee

    Tong Yee (Co-Founder of The Thought Collective) reflects on emotional resilience and personal leadership in this season of crisis – how it tells us about who we are as societies and states, and reveals powerful wisdom if we care to look. Following his talk, Tong Yee will also be participating in a Q&A moderated by Honor Harger (Executive Director, ArtScience Museum).

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    21 Jul

    Feeing the Future Talk with Richard Hassell

    Titled Strange Times, WOHA’s proposal for Singapore for the year 2050 is presented in the form of a highly realistic newspaper from the future at 2219: Futures Imagined. Richard will talk about the emotions and humour this provocative piece of speculative realism was designed to elicit. Following his talk, Richard will also be participating in a Q&A moderated by Nina Ernst (Associate Director, Programmes).

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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller

    7 Jul

    Feeling the Future Talk with Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller

    Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller speak about how exhibitions support the civic role of museums in bringing what is ‘felt’ into public conversation through a process of ‘cultural contagion’. They will also be joined by Nina Ernst (Associate Director, Programmes) in a livestream moderated conversation on 9 Jul (Thursday), 4pm.

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  • Feeling the Future Talk by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern of Superflux

    23 Jun

    Feeling the Future Talk by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern of Superflux

    Listen in as Superflux founders Anab Jain and Jon Ardern talk about how they use narrative and speculation to explore complex problems that are often discussed in terms of data and abstract projections, and why hope often works best alongside tools for proactively tackling future challenges.

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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Cheryl Chung

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    Feeling the Future Talk with Cheryl Chung

    Join Cheryl Chung (Co-Director of Executive Education and Head of Strategic Planning at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) as she discusses how to democratise tools for hope and impart them to youth so they can design the future. She will also be joined by Honor Harger (Executive Director, ArtScience Museum) in a livestream moderated conversation on 26 May (Tuesday), 5pm.

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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Scott Smith

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    Feeling the Future Talk with Scott Smith

    Scott Smith (Founder and Managing Partner of Changeist) shares practical tools for mapping out possible futures in a crisis, which might help us think about and unpack orders of impact of significant change.  He will also be joined by Honor Harger (Executive Director, ArtScience Museum) in a live moderated conversation on 12 May at 5pm.

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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Ariel Muller

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    Feeling the Future Talk with Ariel Muller

    Join Ariel Muller as she shares how we might better equip ourselves to prepare for future shocks, given what we are learning from people's responses to COVID-19.

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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller
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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller
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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Scott Smith
  • Feeling the Future Talk with Ariel Muller
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  • Feeling the Future Talk with Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller
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Learning from Home Roundtable

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    28 Sep, 4pm

    Parents, educators and practitioners come together in Learning from Home Roundtable to share their experiences of at-home learning during COVID-19 lockdown. Join us as we discuss how this period of disruption is presenting opportunities to respond to new perspectives on parenting, teaching and learning beyond the pandemic.

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    Sanveen Kang (Principal Clinical Psychologist at Psych Connect)

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    Bob Lee (Photographer, founder of The Fat Farmer and autism advocate)

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    Cherie Lim Tseng (editor with The Birthday Collective)

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    Victor Lim Fei (Assistant Professor at National Institute of Education)

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    Elaine Ng (co-founder of The Learning Connections)

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Artists' Talks

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    15 Sep, 5pm

    Artist Talk: Sara Wookey

    How do our bodies navigate the many invisible rules of the public space sometimes without us even noticing? Join us as dance artist and researcher Sara Wookey considers how our bodies relate to space around us and if the new safe distancing choreography of the public space might have changed the way we move forever. 

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    23 Jul

    Artist Talk: Blast Theory

    UK-based Blast Theory creates interactive art that reveals the interconnectedness of cultural, scientific, and political issues. Join us as two of the artists from Blast Theory, Matt Adams and Nick Tandavanitj, discuss recent works relating to the flu epidemic in 1918 and SARS in 2003 that have renewed resonance in today’s pandemic world. 

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Special Event: Building a more Accessible Circuit

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    9 June:

    Livestream session at 4pm

    As Singapore eases out of isolation, join us in a livestream roundtable with industry panellists as they reflect on how the circuit breaker is offering a pivotal moment to reframe conversations around access and inclusion.

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    Paul Adams, Learning & Engagement Manager, Singapore Repertory Theatre

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    Serene Goh, Senior Programme Executive, Creative Services, Singapore Association for Mental Health

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    Grace Lee Khoo, Founder and Creative Development Director of Access Path Productions

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    Jean Loo, Co-Founder of Superhero Me

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Take 5

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    28 July

    Take 5 with Clara Chow

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  • Take 5 with Wayne Rée

    14 Jul

    Take 5 with Wayne Rée

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  • Take 5 with Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

    16 Jun

    Take 5 with Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

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  • Take 5 with Daryl Yam

    2 Jun

    Take 5 with Daryl Yam

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  • Ep 3 – Take 5 with Meihan Boey, author of The Messiah Virus

    19 May 

    Take 5 with Meihan Boey, author of The Messiah Virus

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  • Ep 2 – Take 5 with Steven Williams (Senior Officer, Programmes, ArtScience Museum) on DAWG and Accessibility)

    4 May

    Take 5 with Steven Williams

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  • Ep 1 – Take 5 with Zhang Baoxin in the Library of Necessary Books

    21 Apr

    Take 5 with Zhang Baoxin

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  • Ep 3 – Take 5 with Meihan Boey, author of The Messiah Virus
  • Ep 2 – Take 5 with Steven Williams (Senior Officer, Programmes, ArtScience Museum) on DAWG and Accessibility)
  • Ep 1 – Take 5 with Zhang Baoxin in the Library of Necessary Books
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  • Take 5 with Wayne Rée
  • Take 5 with Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
  • Take 5 with Daryl Yam
  • Ep 3 – Take 5 with Meihan Boey, author of The Messiah Virus
  • Ep 2 – Take 5 with Steven Williams (Senior Officer, Programmes, ArtScience Museum) on DAWG and Accessibility)
  • Ep 1 – Take 5 with Zhang Baoxin in the Library of Necessary Books
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  • Take 5 with Wayne Rée
  • Take 5 with Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
  • Take 5 with Daryl Yam
  • Ep 3 – Take 5 with Meihan Boey, author of The Messiah Virus
  • Ep 2 – Take 5 with Steven Williams (Senior Officer, Programmes, ArtScience Museum) on DAWG and Accessibility)
  • Ep 1 – Take 5 with Zhang Baoxin in the Library of Necessary Books

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