Navigating and Building the Metaverse

Synopsis: The seminar questions what the metaverse is and how merging of the physical and digital realms could become a reality for all of us in the future. But is this the way to go? It will feature a talk with a representative from Serial Co, a Singapore based, inter-media, polymorphous creative art studio. The seminar shares creative tech experiences in navigating and building virtual spaces commercially while discussing what it all could mean for us moving forward.

Speakers: 

• Ernest Wu is the Creative Director & Co-founder of Serial Co, a creative technology studio. He is a visual artist who uses photography and moving images to explore socio-spatial relationships across physical and virtual realities. His recent work include BIOSNFT (2022), Superposition (2021-ongoing) and Loading loading (2021-ongoing). Ernest also serves as a founding member of a non-profit arts collective NFT Asia;
• Jonathan Liu is a Visual Artist & Educator working with photography within his practice. He is also a founding member of NFT Asia - an artist-led non-profit digital collective aimed at uplifting Asian and Asia-based artists. He graduated from London College of Communication with a BA in Photography and currently lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

Seminar Series: Deep Dive into Emerging Tech consists of 4 events aiming to explore such emerging technologies as blockchain, NFT and Metaverse to discuss and expose how they challenge, transform and innovate the contemporary arts ecosystem. The series is curated by Jonathan Yixin Liu, Co-founder of NFT Asia and also feature experts from Singapore and abroad. If you are interested to demystify such buzzwords as NFT and Metaverse and understand better these phenomena, please book your space and bring with you questions you always wanted to ask!