Serial Communication

19/01/2025

Last year's Between Systems: In Practice with residency artists , and has a special place in our hearts. It was our first time running a digital arts residency and hopefully not our last!!

Sitting this year out for SAW 2025 to enjoy being a participant, and the energy and excitement is reminding us why we love doing what we do and being part of the creative community! ❣️🫰🏻

18/12/2024

Treasures of Angkor was an exciting project for us to work on!

We drew inspiration from UNESCO heritage site, Angkor Wat, one of the most culturally rich and complex sites in the world. Created for the Southeast Asian Arts Forum in collaboration with UOB and NAFA, we blended gamification and storytelling to create an immersive online journey filled with uncovering treasures and narratives within our virtual world.

You can still explore it on https://www.spatial.io/ — let us know what you think!🧐

15/12/2024

BIOS: Living NFTs – Bonsai Specimens presents a digital bonsai that grows over time, influenced by each block generated on the Ethereum blockchain. This interactive artwork allows viewers to witness the gradual evolution of a bonsai, growing with each new block that the Ethereum blockchain processes and verifies, triggering subtle changes in the bonsai’s branches.

Featured as part of ArtScience Museum's In the Ether — A Festival of Technology and Innovation in September 2024, this work is part of the BIOS Living NFTs series by SERIAL CO_'s cofounders Jake Tan and Ernest Wu. 🌱

14/12/2024

✨ River of Time is an immersive geolocation-based experience that took participants on a journey through Singapore's maritime history—from the sampan boats of the 1800s to the resilient bumboats and a futuristic flying bumboats of 2093.

We added simple gamified elements, like tapping to place boats in the river, allowing users to directly engage with their environment. By merging digital content with the real world, geolocation AR offers immersive, personalised experiences that invite users to explore and interact with their surroundings in meaningful ways.

This AR experience also received an Honorable Mention for Niantic's 8th Wall Lightship VPS for Web Challenge in 2023! 🏆

12/12/2024

In HEAL: Repair+, curated by Hans Tan (Hans Tan Studio), we were privileged to be one of eight artists and designers selected to contribute to this meaningful project.

Our focus was a kokedama—an ornamental Japanese moss-covered soil ball owned by Jie Yi that had lost its vitality but carried deep emotional meaning. Guided by her story, we created a dynamic NFT that evolves over time, reflecting cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Tied to real-world time, it mirrors life’s transformations with a day-to-night cycle. We hope this digital recreation preserves her story while giving it new life in the digital realm.

This exhibition was part of Singapore Design Week 2024 (DesignSingapore).

Images📸: Jonathan Levi, Jonathan Liu

11/12/2024

Injecting some fun into CIMB x ShopBack's pop-up booth with an anamorphic experience! We've got to say, we LOVE creating this type of immersive work. 😍

It’s an incredibly immersive way to deliver a small narrative that pulls you right in because it plays with perspective and depth to create a 3D illusion. For this activation, the illusion is heightened with an integrated built-in LED panel in the outermost corner of the booth!

https://serial.sg/works/cimb-x-shopback-anamorphic-display

09/12/2024

Mesh of Tree Roots is a collaboration between Serial Communication and Kihara Porcelain , created for SUPERMAMA's New Nanyang collection. This project has been particularly special for us, offering a meaningful fusion of analogue and digital techniques.

If you've been here for a while, you know that we often draw inspiration from nature.🌱 For this piece, we replicated the intricate tree root patterns using digital generative line art, which were then brought to life by the amazing craftsman at Kihara Porcelain in Arita, Japan.✨

Hopefully, you guys love this piece from us too, it's available for pre-order on SUPERMAMA's website☺️
https://supermamastore.com/collections/new-nanyang/products/mesh-of-tree-roots-serialco-x-kihara-porcelain?variant=45399094526144

18/11/2024

✨How do we dance collectively?

➡️ Earlier this year, we presented Dancing the Algorithm (DatA) (2024–ongoing) as part of NAC Singapore and Esplanade’s Performing Arts X Tech Lab 2023–2024. This ongoing project dives into how movement and technology intertwine, exploring how algorithmic processes can be embodied and expressed through choreography.

Prototype 1.0 concluded with a rudimentary proof of concept piece – a duet between computational fragments and the individually coded movement DNA based on dance artist Dapheny Chen captured through motion capture technology.

We’re proud of the work so far, and there’s so much more to come! 👀

25/07/2024

We've completed more than 60 projects in our three years of running SERIAL CO_ creating amazing art and tech experiences! It's been such fun running this creative technology studio and seeing the impact we've made across the years. Here's a showreel of some of our projects across the three years, showcasing what we do best...

Thank you to all of the support across the years, it means so much to us!

https://youtu.be/Q5Uq5g94FcI?feature=shared

We've completed more than 60 projects in our three years of running SERIAL CO_ creating amazing art and tech experiences! It's been such fun running this cre...

26/02/2024

Step into a world where beauty and technology blossom together at 4 Jiak Chuan Rd! 🌸✨

Dive into the Shiseido Interactive Flower Field, an immersive experience showcasing the enchanting Mogami Safflowers through the magic of Projection Mapping and AI Computer Vision. This installation merges entertaining education with cutting-edge technology, making learning about beauty a captivating adventure. From now till 29th Feb, don't miss this fusion of art and innovation that's sure to leave everyone in awe.

20/01/2024

On 26 January, join us for a panel session bringing together artists Kumari Nahappan, Valerie Ng, and Jeannie Ho as they discuss their personal artistic explorations and experiments with the digital. Moderated by Jonathan Liu the conversation will aim to share insights into how they have used digital mediums, tools, techniques, and processes to create new trajectories within their individual practices.

Free. For more information and registration - bit.ly/themigration-panel

✨Panel Session | Input/ Output
🗓️⏰26 January 2024, Friday, 7 - 8pm
📍 UltraSuperNew, 168 Tyrwhitt Road

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