kālacakra (a clock for progress)
17 Jan–6 Feb 2025
Fri–Sun, 5.30–11pm | Mon–Thu, 5.30–7pm
National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing, Level 3, UOB Southeast Asia Gallery, Rotunda Library & Archive
Free
kālacakra (a clock for progress) engages audiences through an interactive experience that blends personal reflection with collective memory. Visitors participate in a quiz that generates unique artworks drawn from National Gallery Singapore’s archives. These generated artworks are then added to theprojection on the ceiling of the Gallery’s Rotunda Library & Archive. The act of contributing their individual stories to a shared tapestry mirrors the festival’s theme, “Do You See Me?”, by encouraging visitors to see themselves within the broader context of Singapore’s past, present and future, while also celebrating visibility, identity and community.
Kapilan Naidu is a media artist, designer and creative technologist with a keen interest in exploring the effects of rapid mechanisation and computational ubiquity in modern society. Using interactivity and real-time data as mediums, his works span across generative images, animations, sound, mixed-reality experiences, screen-based installations and computer programs. Naidu’s most recent work, Synthetic Visions for a Future Past (Jurong Dreaming), which was produced for SAM, involved the use of resident contributed text and images with AI implementation to create data based generative art.
