SAW Art&Tech Artists Panel

00 Zhang

Artist

00 Zhang is a London-based artist who is gaining a reputation with her innovative explorations of a sensibility she terms ‘a double-sided exile’ – entwined feelings of dislocation and connection. Thematically her practice investigates the potential of a new form of collective imagination to transcend the borders of national identity, gender, and religion. Her multifaceted practice which includes numerous collaborators, spans sculpture, installation, CGI animation, and interactive digital game environments. Zhang blends embodiment with complex cybernetic concepts, depicting the integration of agents and their environments through elaborate narratives. Exploring the integration of the real world and the virtual, Zhang constructs imaginary worlds that occupy real space – immersive environments that engage viewers and transport them between corporeality and the virtual realm.

Akai Chew

Artist

With architecture as a stepping off point, Akai Chew works in photography, maps, and installation art. Connecting such diverse projects are the common threads of urban memories, stratum of histories, and contested geographies. He has a background in urban planning, and architecture heritage. Overseas, he had exhibited in Perth, New Delhi, Bandung, Hobart and Launceston. Highlights of his career include showing work at Dark MOFO 2018 in Hobart and a commission for Light to Night 2022. He studied architecture at the University of Tasmania. His practice is engaged in a site specific, observation and research based methodology.

By revealing hidden multiplicity of place and the veneer of identity, the artist nudges us towards unexpected encounters with history.

bani haykal

Art Worker

bani haykal experiments with text + music.

As an artist and musician, his work revolves around human-machine relationships / intimacies, examining and reflecting on how tools and technologies have shaped and continue to shape our experiences from commuting to communicating, navigating places and people.

Manifestations of his research culminate into works of various forms including site-responsive installations, poetry and performance. In his capacity as a collaborator and a soloist, bani has participated in festivals including Busan Biennale, Thailand Biennale 2025 (Phuket), Other Futures (Netherlands), MeCA Festival (Japan), Media/Art Kitchen (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Japan) and Liquid Architecture (Australia / Singapore) among others.

Shan Wong (Flyingpig)

Artist, Curator, Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, SATA (Society Art Technology Asia) 

Shan Wong (Flyingpig) is an artist-researcher and Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Academy of Visual Arts, where she explores human-urban dynamics and capitalist transformations across physical. Her artist duo group Foreseen Agency developed their project Hello World Home (examining digital capitalism in Korea) during a 2024 residency at the National Asia Culture Centre in Gwangju, which continues during their current artist residency at Diriyah Art Futures in Saudi Arabia, and have received support from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Arts Council England, and various grants, with co-authored papers published in outlets such as Leonardo, MIT Press, SIGGRAPH, ISEA International, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS). The duo co-founded SATA (Society Art Technology Asia), an artist-led platform, to explore art-technology narratives in the region.

Tisya Wong

Artist

Tisya Wong is interested in an assemblage of things. With a practice rooted in overthinking & overanalysing, she deconstructs human–object relationships, often utilising the mundane & inanimate to reflect on our own humanness in today's world.

Yang Jie

Sculptor, Artist, Maker

Yang Jie is a sculptor who draws inspiration from the intricate world of objects. From familiar household knick-knacks to industrial machinery, he is fascinated by how things are made and used, excavating stories and ideas from found objects and machines through the traces of use. Using his background in electronics engineering and sculpture, he reinterprets the human experience through mechanical movements and electronics, transforming repaired and found objects into kinetic objects that perform.

He has exhibited internationally, most recently creating The House Between the Winds (2025), a kinetic installation activated by a performance commissioned for Singapore International Festival for Arts at the Empress Lawn, Traces of Time (2024), a series of kinetic sensory sculptures at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,  …all the king’s men (2023),  a public art sculpture/bench installed along the Singapore River, The Waiting Machine (2020), a solo exhibition of immersive kinetic installation at Comma Space.

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.