Singapore Songlines
Client: Independent Project | Manipal , 2025 | Generative Art and Technology
Role
Media Artist, Creative Coder, Visual Storyteller
Tools
TouchDesigner, GLSL, Particle Systems, Python
How do communities blur the lines between reinvention and personal identity?
Singapore Songlines is a generative video art installation that examines the relationship between national reinvention and personal identity. Inspired by Rem Koolhas' essay of the same name, it was created using TouchDesigner, combining feedback systems, blurring, and particle dispersion shaders to manipulate imagery of the Singapore Orchid.
The piece is my attempt to highlight the tension between cultural progress and historical erasure, using visual repetition to reflect on how communities navigate change while holding onto identity.
Design Prompts:
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Can code and art express grief for what contemporary urban design forgets?
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What does it mean to belong to a place that is always becoming?
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How do self-aspiration and memory co-author identity?