thusspoke.baby (2026-2027)
In collaboration with Federico Ruberto
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Generative Public Installation
OUE Link Outer Facade, next to OUE Tower
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The Everyday Museum: Momentary Pulses, Singapore Art Museum
30 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
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thusspoke.baby is conceived as a living entity that resides in the space of the digital. It is a reflection on consciousness and intimacy, in the age of Large Language Models. Evolving over time, the virtual character learns and grows as it receives a constant stream of information and influences from the digital world. Throughout the day, it responds to real-time data such as news, weather and even social media content from around the world, through projecting fragments of text and performing polymorphous gestures — semiotic/somatic mutations. It is infantile and oracular, a semiotic creature that grows for 730 days.
The daily generation is an unfolding performance, a long-duration writing/acting machine. It explores how text and gestures behave when liberated from discrete authorship and allowed to operate as a temporal, semi-autonomous field. It is a living archive, a refusal of editorial finitude, a torrential thought where quantity becomes a philosophical tool of reflection.
*text by Singapore Art Museum
*image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum and Taryn Ng
