Teow Yue Han & Federico Ruberto
30 January 2026–31 December 2027
OUE Link Outer Facade, next to OUE Tower
Public outdoor work. Accessible at all times.
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thusspoke.baby is conceived as a living entity that resides in the space of the digital. It is a reflection on consciousness and intimacy, in the age of Large Language Models. Evolving over time, the virtual character learns and grows as it receives a constant stream of information and influences from the digital world. Throughout the day, it responds to real-time data such as news, weather and even social media content from around the world, through projecting fragments of text and performing polymorphous gestures — semiotic/somatic mutations. It is infantile and oracular, a semiotic creature that grows for 730 days.
The daily generation is an unfolding performance, a long-duration writing/acting machine. It explores how text and gestures behave when liberated from discrete authorship and allowed to operate as a temporal, semi-autonomous field. It is a living archive, a refusal of editorial finitude, a torrential thought where quantity becomes a philosophical tool of reflection.
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About the Artist
Teow Yue Han is an interdisciplinary Singaporean artist whose practice explores the interface between performance and technology. He creates situations in which gestures and social interactions can be examined, rehearsed and reimagined. Yue Han is a core member of INTER–MISSION, an art collective focused on technology in art, and Hothouse, a project space dedicated to long-form critical practices. He has presented works internationally, including: Geometria Situ, Hothouse, Singapore Art Week 2024; Trace2, Singapore Art Museum, 2022; Alice, Bob & Eve, SOTA Gallery, 2019; and Interfaces, Barbican Centre, London, 2015. He has also participated in major international platforms, such as the 14th Istanbul Biennale and the Singapore International Festival of Arts.
Federico Ruberto is an Italian writer, designer and artist based in Singapore, working between philosophy, design and media. He is Programme Director of the BA Architecture programme at the National University of Singapore and co-founder of formAxioms, a laboratory exploring alternative urban processes and the impact of virtual and augmented modes on presence, agency and space. Federico’s projects often intersect digital and physical space, scrutinising computational paradigms, planetary urbanism and artificial ecologies. Recent works include: Synthetic Natures: Gestures to Sample and Hold, Tokyo, 2024; Geometria Situ, Hothouse, Singapore Art Week, 2024; and ÖK(a)B, with Singapore Art Museum, 2024. He co-curated Negentropic Fields at National Gallery Singapore in 2020, and has exhibited at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Venice Biennale and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale.
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