Mind Ink Painting Machine

YEO SHIH YUN
MIND INK PAINTING MACHINE (MIPM)

2020
Interactive digital media / Video And Mixed Media Installation

Developed for Otherworlds - as part of Singapore Art Week 2021

CONTROLS

Click and drag your cursor along the inkscapes to influence them.

DESCRIPTION

Yeo has been intrigued by the brain, the most mysterious and powerful organ of the human body. The work explores the possibilities of human minds and the new realm of ink art. Yeo’s brain-wave data will be pre-recorded into interactive Inkscape, juxtaposing the traditional ink medium in forms of physical paintings with neurotechnology.

The work was conceptualised during the circuit breaker period when she could not travel to her studio to create paintings. During this time she reflects on the role of technology, and the importance, especially during the pandemic. In an attempt to calm her mind amidst the current situation, she explores alternative ways to meditate, such as by using an app device to track her brain activities.

Her interest to utilise mind energy and her passion to create a new form of ink works result in the collaboration with MAKESTUDIOS, in which human brainwaves are translated into digital ink paintings in real-time through a computer program.

ABOUT ARTIST

Yeo Shih Yun graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1998 with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration. She then joined LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts and completed a Diploma in Communication Design in 2001, prior to her pursuit of the Post Baccalaureate Programme in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. Yeo is known to reinterpret the medium of ink painting with striking results. Her experimentations with the fusion of the traditional form and contemporary mediums, such as new media or performance art, have garnered much acclaim, including a commission by the Singapore Art Museum, the Sovereign Asian Art Prize People’s Choice Award 2012 and the UOB Painting of the Year 2007. Yeo has held solo exhibitions in Singapore, Japan, and Germany, and participated in various other group exhibitions internationally.