Imagining Worlds, Worlding Imaginaries

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.

ong kian peng

Artist, Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University

Working across a broad range of mediums, including film, sound, VR, and electronics, ong kian-peng situates his practice at the intersection of art, technology and ecology. His work explores ecological thinking through immersive media enviroments and installations that address environmental crises, climate change, and the expanding field of human-technology interactions.

Delving into the complex relationship between culture, nature, and technology, he creates visionary scenarios and raises existential questions about our role in shaping the future of a vulnerable planet.  His work has been featured in international exhibitions and festivals such as, most recently, *Ars Electronica* (Linz, Austria, 2024) and Singapore Biennale (2022). In 2017, he co-founded *Supernormal.space*, an independent art space focusing on emerging and experimental art practices. He was awarded the President's Young Talents Grand Prize in 2015, and shortlisted for awards such as the Re:humanism award, and Lumen Prize.  He is currently an assistant professor at the NTU School of Art, Design and Media.

Priyageetha Dia

Artist

Priyageetha Dia works with time-based media and installation. Her practice braid themes of Southeast Asian labour histories, speculation of the tropics, and ancestral memory meeting machine logics. Through archival and field research, she explores nonlinearity and practices of refusal against dominant narratives.

Her recent exhibitions include Loop Barcelona (2025); Aichi Triennale (2025); Munch Triennale (2025); 4th Bangkok Art Biennale (2024); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); 60th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2024); Arts House, Melbourne (2024); Diriyah Biennale, Saudi (2024). She was an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2022 and the SEA AiR—Studio Residencies at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands in 2023.

Joshua Lau

Assistant Curator at ArtScience Museum

Joshua Lau is a curator and independent artist based in Singapore. Trained in theatre direction, filmmaking, and scriptwriting, he later earned his BA in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins. He is currently an Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at ArtScience Museum.

Joshua has curated and produced major exhibitions including Another World Is Possible (2025-2026), Laid Bare: Frida’s Inner World (2024) and Mars: The Red Mirror (2023-2024). He also spearheaded the inaugural ArtScience Residency (2023-2024), which culminated in a series of public programmes and exhibitions.

Alongside his curatorial work, Joshua maintains an artistic practice in creative-non-fiction writing, drawing inspiration from his multidisciplinary background. He self-publishes under a pseudonym, working at the intersection of language, lived experience, and memory. Treating the self as a site of inquiry into shame and vulnerability, his practice culminates in lyric autofiction.