Jake Tan
New Media Artist/
Creative Technologist


SELECTED
Archive of Digital Plants
Analogue Is Dead
Latent Space
In Hot Waters
The Divine Forest
We are and or have been
ADAM
4th DIMENSION (2nd Edition) (1st Edition)
State Of The Arch

CHRONOLOGICAL ALL WORKS
2022
  1. AR Tango︎︎︎ Art Reimagined
  2. VR Latent Space Pluritopia
  3. In Hot Waters
  4. VR INSTINCT D’Art Festival Metaverse︎︎︎
  5. Terrarium︎︎︎ Night Festival
  6. BIOS: Digital Nature Night Festival
  7. BIOS: A Conversation with the Wind
  8. AR/VR SUPERMAMA World︎︎︎ Milan Design Week
  9. XR MPL Season 3 Extended Reality Set︎︎︎
  10. VR ADM Metaverse︎︎︎
  11. BIOS 01 SG Art Week
  12. Networked Machines︎︎︎ SG Art Week

2021
  1. Archive of Digital Plants
  2. Golden Hour︎︎︎ SG Countdown
  3. XR MPL Season 2 Extended Reality Set︎︎︎
  4. AR NDP Experience︎︎︎ SG Day 
  5. AR Secret Garden: Lloyd’s Inn X SERIAL︎︎︎ 
  6. AR Hidden Garden: Lloyd’s Inn X UNIQLO︎︎︎
  7. AR ADM Grad Show 2021︎︎︎
  8. Interconnected Machines SG Art Week

2020
  1. AR Lucinda Law’s Botanical Art Experience Exhibition︎︎︎
  2. The Divine Forest 
  3. AR Jason Yu EP Experience︎︎︎
  4. In Vivo: Within the Living
  5. AR ADM Grad Show 2020︎︎︎
  6. Creating Smart Textiles
  7. AR Creators Climate Action AR Campaign︎︎︎ 

2019
  1. AR Singapore Sports Hub: Season Of Giving
  2. AR BBC Earth: Botanical Art World
  3. AR Trip.com: Take That Trip!
  4. AR The Bubble Tea Factory: Bobabae
  5. VR AISTRONAUT NOISE FESTIVAL
  6. AR THE SHŌNEN SERIES
  7. 4th DIMENSION (2nd Edition) (1st Edition)
  8. State Of The Arch
  9. Share Share Application

2018
  1. Me & My Shiny Teeth Application
  2. ADAM
  3. ONE
  4. TV?
  5. BUDJAM
  6. SOUNDFLOWER︎︎︎
  7. AR VoyagAR︎︎︎
  8. Shy Shy Venus︎︎︎
  9. VR Voice of The Morning Star︎︎︎
  10. PHASE︎︎︎
  11. AR TamaGO!︎︎︎
  12. ROGUE Magazine︎︎︎

2017
  1. NOMADIC︎︎︎
  2. VR Train To Bishan︎︎︎
  3. BLXCK Website︎︎︎
  4. 36-100-01︎︎︎
  5. MEMBRAIN Industries︎︎︎
  6. VR 360 Tour of Prambanan︎︎︎
  7. To Us︎︎︎
  8. The Novena Dream︎︎︎
  9. I AM A FICTIONAL HERO︎︎︎
  10. 兄 Blood︎︎︎

2016
  1. LAZARUS XII︎︎︎
  2. The Red Giant︎︎︎

2014
  1. You’re My Type︎︎︎


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Mark

5. AISTRONAUT (1st Edition)




PROJECT AISTRONAUT
(1st Edition) 
NOISE Metaverse, Exhibition by National Arts Council Singapore & iMMERSIVELY
February - March 2019, Singapore



void loop()
{

        Have you wondered what happens to machines when they are turned off? Perhaps like us, they dream.

        if this was a possibility
        {     maybe I can teach one to dream a dream I’ve always dreamed?
              to be purely data running through a loop but desire to reach the
              vastness of space
        }

        Aistronaut wants to show humanity what it’s like to put on a helmet and go somewhere else, far far away.

        Like a dream, or like space.

        Put the Aistronaut Helmet on and speak to it.
}



AISTRONAUT, into the Metaverse, is an art piece birthed from the curiosity of artist, Jake Tan, and his aspirations to one day be an astronaut, a dream since he was a child. 

    “I wonder if machines dream as I do when they are shut off? If they do, I wonder if they dream of space as I do?” 


Jake parallels metaphors between humanity and machinery by allowing participants to engage with the AISTRONAUT System through participatory interaction as the shell of an old Phillips PC CRT Monitor rigged with modern day sensors and technology.

Within the shell, participants get to explore a Virtual Reality world with an artificial intelligence waiting to greet them. The artificial intelligence bears similar looks to the classic Windows BIOS Terminal System. Participants will be prompted to speak to the system to engage and await the text response from my artificial intelligence to understand more about the narrative.



AISTRONAUT’s underlying narrative draws parallels that humans and machines are not that different; we are set up in a certain way and run in a loop until we die. The project questions as humans, who are essentially free willed, we choose to live life in a comfortable, safe loop. This choice, however, is not given for machines. Through word play and computer language, AISTRONAUT engages with users in a familiar but different tone that we assosciate with computers. 

The 3 narratives that can be engaged from the user’s input are INSTALLATION, LOOP, DREAMS. Each speaks of the parallels between humanity and machinery. 



Tools:
Unity 2018.3
Phillips PC CRT Monitor
RGB LEDs
XiaoMi Powerbank
Stereo Speakers(Deshelled)
Sponge
Leather



Mark