Artist Statement

SPOKEN, a virtual exhibition curated by Eugene Soh and Stephen Black, features an eclectic mix of twenty artists and twenty writers, including Stelarc, Vincent Leow, Yasumasa Morimura, Xu Xi, Sjon, Richard E. Elliot, Rui Ho An and Jamie Grefe. Also featured are a homage to Jeff Koons and a vasesmashing game based upon an artwork by Ai Wei Wei.
SPOKEN refers to the fact that the curators have spoken to the artists in the exhibition, a simple yet profound commonality. The venue for the exhibition is gallery.sg , the creation of Eugene Soh. Built with a game engine and featuring an inspiring international collection of creatives whose works exist in various forms, SPOKEN inspires, amuses and disrupts.
Images and blog posts about SPOKEN can be found at blacksteps.tv

• Stephen Black, Augmented Reality producer, consultant, researcher, writer and artist. Very experienced with VR, photography and video. [source Linked-in] blacksteps.tv
• Eugene Soh (SG) Eugene Soh a.k.a. DUDE (b. 1987) is a tech artist. He is the founder of Dude Studios (dude.sg), a creative tech studio focusing on Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality, and Mind Palace (mindpalacevr.org), a social enterprise that uses VR to help dementia patients and nursing home residents revisit fond places and explore the world from the comfort and safety of their chairs, keeping their minds active and slowing the effects of dementia. He grew up as a self-taught computer programmer, tinkering with the latest fun technology when he accidentally became an artist after his photographic piece, contextualizing Da Vinci’s Last Supper in a local hawker centre setting, went viral on social media in 2012. That discovery, with its tongue-in-cheek commentary on contemporary life in Singapore, catapulted him into the art world. Many awards and exhibitions later, he hasn’t stopped creating and tinkering. [Source: dude.sg] Video: The dude who became an accidental artist: Eugene Soh, TEDxSingapore