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Ashley Hi is a visual artist who utilises kinetic sculpture and installation to explore medium, material, and movement. Her works blend art, technology, and data to create sensory spaces and generative experiences through algorithm and design. She holds a degree in Digital Arts Computing from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Instagram: @ashleyzhiqi

Chok Si Xuan is an artist that works with installations. Interested in cybernetics, specifically the feedback systems that occur between humans, living organisms and machines. She is curious about how post-human cultures and industrial materials shape the way contemporary society understands itself. Interested in the cybernetics and the feminine, she constructs and readapts systems within installations in hopes of challenging our own subjectivities of our environment, bodies and other organisms, organic or manufactured. Using predominantly found electronic objects, her choice of materials, and systems become a way to tap into the relationships we already have, expressing our shared likeness in them.

Within her practice, her current focus explores the concept of emergence within natural environments and man made systems. Pursuing the points of tensions between the material, immaterial, human, organic and mechanic, constructing installations out of found objects and systems that exist in our everyday lives, and using such systems and technologies to expand our physical reality.

She currently resides and practices in Singapore, and has worked with institutions such as Singapore Art Museum, Esplanade, National Library Singapore, ArtScience Museum and Centre For Contemporary Art (Nanyang Technological University), to independent and commercial art spaces such as starch, on various public commissions and exhibitions. With a keen interest in interdisciplinary work, she has been involved in various projects ranging from performance arts, fashion and technology, providing creative and conceptual guidance as well as technical fabrication from 3D printing, microcontroller electronics and coding.

Instagram: @sixuannn