Curatorial Huddle on Art and Technology

Ashley Hi

Director & Tech Lead, Feelers

Ashley Hi is a Singaporean visual artist who uses kinetic sculpture, installation, and performance to create sensory spaces and generative experiences. Her work investigates how tech’s accelerationist aesthetics can be disrupted by digital practices that imagine computational tools as mediums of speculation across language, history, and culture. She is the Director and Tech Lead of Singapore-based art and tech research lab Feelers, and lectures at NTU School of Art, Design and Media. She graduated with a BSc in Digital Arts Computing from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently pursuing a MA in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, supported by the NAC-UAS Arts Scholarship.

Celine Wong Katzman

Associate Curator at Creative Time

Celine Wong Katzman works alongside artists to unravel and transform exhibitions, classrooms, publications, and websites. Her practice considers the impacts of contemporary technologies on archival practices, community infrastructure, and public space.

Celine is Associate Curator at Creative Time. Previously, she was Co-Director at School for Poetic Computation and has held curatorial positions at the Queens Museum and Rhizome, the digital art affiliate of the New Museum. 

Celine is a 2025 Digital Fellow at Singapore Art Museum, a 2024 Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship recipient, and a 2023 Teiger Foundation curatorial grant recipient. In 2021-2023 she was Mentor-in-Residence at NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator. She holds a B.A. in Visual Art with honors from Brown University.

Debbie Ding

Artist, Assistant Professor (Digital Arts) at Singapore University of Technology and Design

Debbie Ding is an artist-scholar working across the intersection of artistic research, technology and game studies, currently Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Notable exhibitions include Wikicliki at Singapore Art Museum, Radio Malaya at NUS Museum, Construction in Every Corner at NTU Museum, Ars Electronica Features, Radical Gaming at House of Electronic Arts Basel, Worldbuilding at Julia Stoschek Foundation Dusseldorf, and Singapore Biennale 2025. She is curator for Reworlding, a Singapore Art Week 2026 exhibition at starch, which features female media artists from Asia – including 00 Zhang, Line of Piers, Shan Wong, Priyageetha Dia, and Jo Ho.

Gunalan Nadarajan

Dean Emeritus and Professor, Stamps School of Art and Design 

Gunalan Nadarajan, an art theorist and curator working at the intersections of art, science and technology, is Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan. His publications include multiple books and over 100 book chapters, catalogue essays, academic articles and reviews; many translated into 17 languages. He has curated many international exhibitions including in Mexico, Indonesia, New Zealand, US, Korea, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, China and as Artistic Co-Director of Ogaki Media Arts Biennale and Artistic Director of ISEA2008 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Singapore. 

Kathleen Ditzig

Curator, National Gallery Singapore

Kathleen Ditzig is a Singaporean art historian and curator. She has written about global histories of culture, finance, and geopolitics through the lens of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary art. She received her PhD from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2023 with the dissertation titled Exhibiting Southeast Asia in the Cultural Cold War: Geopolitics of Regional Art Exhibitions (1940s-1980s). She obtained an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in New York in 2015. As a curator at National Gallery Singapore, she researches art histories of technology from a Southeast Asian perspective and works on projects related to advanced technologies. She co-curated the exhibition Art Histories of a Forever War: Modernism between Space and Home at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2021-2) and the traveling exhibition Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art during a Cold War (2021-2), which traveled to Singapore, Manila, and Busan.

Roopesh Sitharan

Artist, Curator, Researcher, Academic at Multimedia University

Roopesh Sitharan is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and researcher whose practice-led work integrates art, technology, and cultural inquiry. His projects and exhibitions have been presented internationally at platforms such as the Gwangju Biennale, ISEA, and SIGGRAPH. His writings have appeared in publications including Leonardo Electronic Almanac and CTRL+P Contemporary Art Journal. He is Co-convenor of the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN.NET) and serves on the Board of the New Media Caucus, contributing to regional and global discourses on artistic research, emerging practices, and new media art.