Citizens Comfort
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Exhibited as part of 'MAAP in Singapore', Singapore Art Museum.
Inspired by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in the late 90’s when “he hailed the air-conditioner as one of mankind’s greatest inventions”, this project is thematically based on air-conditioning as an allegorical and metaphoric object in narrating Singapore and its citizens. As with prior executions of this work in the form of Augmented Reality (AR) and mechanical installations (2004), the artist revisits the theme with new technical variations in AR technology. The artist hopes to immerse the audience in a visual and interactive exploration of ideas of conditioning / comfort / living in the city state of Singapore by surrounding you in text of the Singapore pledge being blown out of the airconditioning system. This work is done in technical collaboration with the IERC, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is sponsored by National Arts Council, Singapore.
Biography
Teacher, art maker and Georgette Chen scholarship recipient, Paul Lincoln received an MFA (Painting) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia in 2004 and is currently lecturing Digital Media at Visual and Performing Arts, National Institute of Education. Singapore. Primarily interested in thematic investigations of social division and discourses in mass media, Paul implements formalistic and comparative language in his work. Notable exhibitions include, Nokia Singapore Art – Cyberarts exhibition, Singapore Art Museum. Singapore (2001), Festival Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica Centre Future Lab. Austria (2002), Future Cinema, ZKM. Germany (2002), Graphite 2003, Span Gallery. Australia (2003), Demoskene.katastro.fi, Kiasma Museum.
Helsinki (2003), ‘GRAVITY’, MAAP. Singapore Art Museum (2004).
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