"Microcosm” is a virtual world on VRChat exploring scale, perspective and environments within engineering. The inner workings of engineering research are often hidden from the human eye, and this work invites spectators to explore the different scales of terrains that are a fundamental aspect of engineering.
Incorporated are terrains from various projects from Innovation and Design Programme (iDP) and the Satellite Technology and Research (STAR) Centre. These projects include Team Bumblebee, Formula SAE (FSAE), Robomaster, Mars Rover, and STAR research centre.
This public art commission is derived from National University of SIngapore's College of Design and Engineering (CDE) Artist-in-Residence Programme, which seeks to bring together artists and the CDE community to collaboratively conceptualise and develop artworks. By making a space for new media art on campus, it seeks to inspire the CDE community of new perspectives and ways of thinking about the problems and solutions of our society through art.
Debbie Ding is an artist working across the intersection of artistic research, technology and game studies, exploring psychogeography in virtual worlds. Her work was shortlisted for the President’s Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020 and is collected by the Australian War Memorial and Singapore Art Museum. Notable exhibitions include Ars Electronica, “Radical Gaming” at HeK Basel, “Worldbuilding” at Julia Stoschek Foundation Dusseldorf, “Wikicliki” at Singapore Art Museum, “Radio Malaya” at NUS Museum, Kochi Biennale, and the Singapore Biennale.
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