We are pleased to present an online screening of Lawrence Lek’s CGI film Geomancer, 2017. The film is now available to stream until Wednesday 08 April 2020. A week-long screening of Lek’s feature-length film AIDOL, 2019 – the sequel to Geomancer – will follow from 09 – 16 April 2020. 

On the eve of Singapore’s 2065 Centennial, an adolescent satellite AI escapes its imminent demise by coming down to Earth, hoping to fulfil its dream of becoming the first AI artist. Faced with a world that limits its freedom, Geomancer must come to terms with its militarised origins, a search that begins with a mysterious syndicate known as the Sinofuturists…

As the geopolitical axis tilts further to the East, and as once-dominant technological models are cast into doubt, Geomancer alights on a longstanding tension between the place of the human and the role of the machine, sharpened by contemporary hopes and anxieties around the rise of East Asia, and by speculations that new forms of artificial intelligence, already outperforming mere mortals in matters of automation, will challenge us in more creative skills as well.

Featuring video game animation, a neural network-generated dream sequence, and a synthesised vocal soundtrack, Geomancer explores the aesthetics of post-human consciousness.

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31 January - 29 February 2020
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14 November - 20 December 2019
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19 September - 2 November 2019

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06 October 2019 - 02 February 2020

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12 January - 23 February 2019

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16 November 2018 - 26 January 2019

1 November - 15 December 2018

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13 September - 10 November 2018
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8 June - 18 August 2018

9 June - 24 August 2018

Sleep

18 April - 26 May 2018

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18 April - 26 May 2018

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692 productions 

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22 February - 7 April 2018

Ze & Per

22 February - 7 April 2018

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23 November 2017 - 10 February 2018

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13 January - 29 March 2018

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692 productions 

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Heimlich Manoeuvre

23 November 2017 - 10 February 2018

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Projects 106: Martine Syms is a new exhibition using video and performance to examine representations of blackness and its relationship to narrative, vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Explore the exhibition with the artist herself in this "How to See" tour.

© The Museum of Modern Art, 2017

American artist Martine Syms talks about her first UK institutional solo exhibition Fact & Trouble. The exhibition compiles original and found photography alongside images taken by her father, weaving together familial, cultural, and historical legacies. Fact & Trouble demonstrates Syms’s multifarious artistic practice which includes video, performance and writing as well as publishing through her imprint Dominica.

© Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2016

© Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016

Culture Now: Uri Aran
2 September 2016

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UK at the Venice Biennale, 2015
Filmed at the British Pavilion.

Commissioned by the British Council and produced by Julian Simmons.