ASM ArtScience™ Prize 2020

Operasi Cassava is an epitome of art and science fusion in an experimental installation that visualizes a plant’s biological reactions presenting its inner vitality artistically and enable connection or possible interaction between humans and plants within an inter- networking of Internet of Things (IOT).

“While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a soundscape is worth a thousand pictures"- Bernie Krauss (2013).

27 Years of Lazarian Delights is the result of fantastical worldbuilding; artifacts from another solar system collected by an ambitious explorer who pursues a hedonistic thirst for novelty in a metaphorical journey of discovery, scientific observation, and ethnography.

This project is to propose to establish a training grounds towards an establishment of a photo-historical center that specifically geared towards the facilitation for the practise and research studies into the early photographic processes.

Corals depend on their symbiont zooxanthellae for nutrients while zooxanthellae depend on corals for protection.

My ArtScience project is about the use of Shale and Lateritic Rock as colorants on canvas. Existing industrial paint and colorants known to be carcinogens to human contact and environment(ref).

Viewing fractal images can induces positive physiological changes in the observer and have been proven to produce feel-good alpha brainwaves of a wakefully relaxed state.

The Arts and Sciences are supposed to be on two opposite ends of the spectrum: the Arts are subjective, open ended and emotional; the Sciences are rational, objective and dispassionate.

NOBAT is one of the Malay art heritage that has remained until now. In Malaysia, NOBAT is the music that played in the palace as Royal Malay performing arts. Among the states that still maintain Malay music NOBAT is Perak, Kedah and Terengganu. NOBAT music is a kind of Royal band played only in the palace and its musicians are made up of just a few people.

‘Wajah – wajah Malaysia’ is a project where we combine art, 3D-printed and lithophane technique in one artwork piece. By combining these three elements, we create an artwork that portraying social activities, culture, contemporary content as well as current issues that emerging in Malaysia.

This project aspires to inform that collaborative artwork between art and science play crucial role in order to bridge the gap between art and science field. This research is to actually meet the objective such as study the contextual analysis based on the idea of nature of science.

This research endeavour ruminates the possibility of an autonomous technology in being able to attain subjectivity through its algorithmic intelligence. The rapid acceleration of computing capabilities in recent years forged the creation of autonomous machines whereby instigating an enduring fascination with Artificial Intelligent (AI) and its benefit to human activities.

“Before Your Very Eyes” documents how bacterial communities interact between one another within a set of environments that are differentiated by water, in order to sustain life.

Digital-Tropical is a project that converges the analogue data and the digital flow into ‘reality analogical’ between the historical resonance of the past with the wave of current technology. In a sense, this project is shifting between factual data analysis into artistic representation, thus giving new artistic meanings to a scientific research.