JAKE TAN JUN KANG
JXKETAN@gmail.com / +65 9788 7070
Director, Co-Founder, Technology Lead at <SERIAL CO_>
New Media Artist
Creative Technologist
Art Tech Entrepreneur
Educator
Jake Tan (b.1994) is a New Media Artist, Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, and Co-Founder of SERIAL COMMUNICATION, a studio that focuses on Research & Development of proprietary digital assets in the fields of Creative Technology, Blockchain, and Extended Reality(XR).
Jake's artistic practice focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and society, where he has exhibited and was part of artistic residencies in Singapore, Austria, Germany, Japan & Istanbul. To create Jake's New Media Art, typically involves technological research & development in the following realms: physically through microcontroller and electronics programming, 3D printing, and scanning. Digitally through programming, AR/VR/MR production through game engines, and intangibly through projection mapping and XR-focused user interface and experience design.
His studio, SERIAL COMMUNICATION, was selected for incubation grants by Singapore Management University, and Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Media and Design, Singapore, where he also received his BFA degree in Interactive Media(2020), and MiniMasters™ in General Management(2021) in Nanyang Business School.