Journal & Book Publications

Urging readers to "fill the tiny / unmade bed of the search box," these alluring poems build on radically changing communication technologies to explore a new sexuality that does (and does not) dare to tweet its name. Here, finally, is the language of digital love.

Citation:
Whetter, Darryl. Search Box Bed. Palimpsest Press, 2017.

In the same way, this paper examines changing attitudes in Thailand towards photography's artistic status and presumed indexicality as paradigmatic examples of a transformation from the modern to the contemporary. Photography's crucial role in this shift is located in key alterations to the medium's functions and perceptions of its artistic legitimacy. On the one hand, the acceptance of photography as an art form reflects developments in imbricated networks of legitimation, occurring with the rise of international education and exhibition opportunities in the post-Cold War period. On the other hand, the conditions of photography itself, or rather its ontology, produce a conceptualisation of the contemporary as manifested in a desire for proximity with difference. In examining works by a number of contemporary Thai artists, I argue that photography's visualisation of the 'optical unconscious' allows one to fulfil this desire for contemporaneity, while also pointing to the limits of representation as a means of asserting coevality.
Citation:
Veal, Clare Elisabeth. "The Photographic Conditions of Contemporary Thai Art." Journal of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, vol. 34, no. 11, 2017.

The model addresses multiple art forms simultaneously through practices that are tailored for a heterogeneous educational setting yet encompasses a unified perspective. New knowledge is created with students from a heterogeneous setting when they share creative theories from within their own arts discipline. Responding to the common core of the program from various backgrounds provides an opportunity for collaborative, crossdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary work. This new knowledge is shared knowledge, and is created as the students continue to move the boundaries of their scholarly study to include theory and practice from other arts disciplines. Case examples from the program at LASALLE College of the Arts as well examples from the field of arts education in Singapore will be presented to show how both commonalities as well as differences in pedagogical practice are used in the model to foster collaboration, cross-arts communication, and to create new methodology within research and practice.

Citation:
Watkins, Kie. "Heterogeneous Pedagogy: A Model for Tertiary Teaching and Learning across Arts Disciplines." Journal of Beijing Dance Academy, vol. 26, no. 03, 2017, pp. 111-115.

Printed on high quality paper, the pages of this book can be individually removed and framed.

Citation:
Ang, Qing Sheng. Picturesque Shophouses. Singapore, Epigram, 2016. 

Comprising texts that reflect diverse writing styles and modes of expression—from personal narrative to theoretical texts to manifestos—this book is an essential resource for students, researchers and art lovers alike.        

Citation:
Say, Jeffrey, and Seng Yu Jin, editors. Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art. Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, 2016.

Singapore with a world-class transport, public housing, financial, and industrial systems also boasts a world-class educational system placing it at pole position above most developed economies in the Western world for its quality education and high literacy rate amongst its citizens.  This chapter demonstrates the critical link between arts higher education and economic output and how Singapore's renowned and established arts schools - Lasalle College of the Arts (1984) and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (1938) - remain central to the creative economy as producers of art, artists, and designers, even as local universities and polytechnics jump into the fray to supply much needed manpower to fuel the creative economy. This chapter first maps the development of the creative economy through key cultural policies and locates the place of arts higher education in Singapore. It demonstrates that the weighted hand of cultural policy, whilst critical to the establishment of a creative economy, is largely passive on the place of artist education within the world-class conventional educational system.
Citation:
Purushothaman, Venka. "Cultural Policy, Creative Economy and Arts Higher Education in Renaissance Singapore." Higher Education and the Creative Economy: Beyond the Campus. Edited by Roberta Comunian and Abigail Gilmore. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 201-220.

A series of Motion Sensing Extensions suggest different approaches of how to use a motion sensor within various physical environments to capture movement to better understand the materialization of movement and new forms of interactions through movement.    

Citation:
Schlegel, Andreas, and Cedric Honnet. “Movement of Things Exploring Inertial Motion Sensing When Autonomous, Tiny and Wireless.” MOCU16 proceding of the 3rd international symposium on Movement and computing, no. 47, 2016, doi: 10.1145/2948910.2948916.

Similar underground experimental music scenes have also emerged throughout South-East Asia, e.g., in Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Yogyakarta, Jakarta and other major centers, which has led to an increase in experimental musical activity in the region.

Citation: 
Moore, Daren. “2016 Experimental music in Singapore.” Journal of Sonic Studies, vol. 12, 2016.