art by cde

Exploring Creative Boundaries

Does this combination come as a surprise to you?

Think: Virtual Reality games, 3D printers, Crystal Universe in Art Science Museum, or even the Kinetic Rain sculpture in Changi Airport Terminal 1. With rapid advancements in technology and shifting demands of both artists and consumers, the integration of these two domains have resulted in innovative works.

Check out how our community leverages on this synergistic relationship to develop exciting creations!

Activities

CDE Artist-in-Residence Programme

The CDE Artist-in-Residence Programme brings together artists and the CDE community to collaboratively conceptualise and develop artwork for our 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.

Public Art @ CDE

Check out the various artworks around the campus, ranging from those created by our community and those in collaboration with other artists.

CDE Artist-in-Residence Programme

Meet the artists we are working with

Jason

Jason Ong
3D Designer

Jason spent six years in Kay Ngee Tan Architects in Singapore and London before attaining his Master's Degree in Design (with Distinction) from Domus Academy in Milan in 2002.

His accolades include winning the Grand Prix Award at the Nagoya International Design Competition in 2000 for the "Chair for Daydreamers" and being the selected artist for the President's Young Talent Exhibition in 2005.

Jason Ong 3D Designer
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Jason collaborated with A/Prof Aaron Chia from the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM) in the Public Art Initiative.

Check out their artwork inspired by Systems Thinking in the EA Building Q1 2023!

Tan Seow Wei

Tan Seow Wei
Ink Painting Artist
https://www.tanseowwei.com/

Seow Wei graduated from LASALLE College of the Arts with Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Painting in 2008. She loves to dabble in printmaking, ink painting, drawing and inadvertently produces works that are often mixed media in nature.

She has won a number of awards including the Siaw-Tao Outstanding Art Award in 2014, Winston Oh Travelog Award in 2007, Georgette Chen Scholarship in 2006, Dr Tan Tsze Chor Art Award - Distinction in 2003.

Tan Seow Wei Ink Painting Artist
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Seow Wei collaborated with Dr Bina Rai from Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Public Art Initative.

Check out their artwork inspired by X-Ray Crystallography in the E7 Building Q4 2022!

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Debbie Ding
Visual Artist and Technologist
https://dbbd.sg/

Debbie is a Singapore-based artist whose interest range from historical research to urban geography to visions of the future. Using interactive computer simulations, rapid prototyping, and other visual technologies, she creates works about subjects such as map traps, lost islands (Pulau Saigon), World War II histories, soil, bomb shelters, and public housing void decks.

Her work was shortlisted for the President's Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020 and is collected by the Australian War Memorial.

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Debbie explored many cool projects in CDE, including Bumblebee, FSAE, NUS Rover, Robomaster and the research in STAR Centre.

Check out her artwork in the EA Building Q4 2022!

Engaging the Community

In the collaboration between Artist Tan Seow Wei and Dr Bina Rai from Biomedical Engineering, the duo was inspired by X-Ray crystallography, a tool which allowed the creator to reveal the helical shape of the DNA molecule, now used to analyse the molecular structure of the COVID-19 protein.

40 BME students enrolled in BN3402 Bioanalytical Methods for Engineers (Sem 2, AY 21/22) therefore developed their own intaglio printed COVID-19 protein structures (above) in a community engagement workshop by Seow Wei, which will be included in the final artwork.

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Public Art @ CDE

EA Building

Striving

By: Sun Yu-Li

Space Frame

Developed by Prof Lee Seng Lip and Dr Thomas See
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The space frame supporting the overhead canopy uses innovative universal connectors developed by Dr Thomas See and the late Prof Lee Seng Lip from CDE, together with RAMCO Engineering in 1987. The multi-directional connectors allow up to twelve tubular members to be joined at any angle internally-threaded spherical node. Space frames of various geometries and multiple layers, including those with curved or irregular profiles, can be fabricated in this manner. Such connectors have since been used extensively in Asia and the Middle East.

Location: In front of EA Entrance

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Something in this Fog of Memory

By:
Nicolette Tan (Y5 English Literature and iDP Undergraduate)
Shi Zhansen (iDP Alumni)
Ong Suyi (iDP Alumni)
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A light-based installation depicting the journey into the mind of someone living with dementia.

Location: EA L2 Lobby 1

Developed for NUS Arts Festival 2022: Shades of Light(ness)

In Living Company

By: Hup Jing Si, Poon Si Ying Averil, Lim Yu Wei Jeremy, and Wong Jessie

CDE ECE Alumni, Class of 2022

E4 Corridor

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Murals

Be inspired by quotes from renowned personalities as you walk across the corridor along E4.

TechnoEdge

Verlyn Ku CDE proposal (1)

Campus Piano

The piano is painted in various shades of green to represent a dense forest, with a beam of sunlight piercing through it. This symbolises a brand new day and another chance at attempting the tasks you've always wanted to do.