Benedict Yu, Blk 350 Anchorvale Road, Singapore (2026)

05/05/2026

🌸 Mother’s Day VR Floral Workshop 🌸
Details in bio link under “Mother’s Day VR Floral Workshop 9th May” & “Mother’s Day VR Floral Workshop 10th May”
🔗 https://luma.com/zjua3dy0 / https://luma.com/wychzz61

This Mother’s Day weekend, step into a shared creative experience where parent and child explore Virtual Reality (VR) as an artistic medium. Together, you’ll create a 3D digital floral bouquet inspired by artworks from Singapore’s national collections, including National Gallery Singapore.

Participants will begin with a guided exploration of floral motifs across Singapore and Southeast Asian art history, before translating these 2D references into immersive 3D forms using Open Brush in VR.

Workshop highlights:
• Introduction to VR as an artistic & cultural medium
• Guided exploration of museum collections (floral focus)
• Hands-on VR painting of individual flowers
• Composition of a 3D bouquet in virtual space
• Reflection and sharing session

A meaningful parent-child bonding experience that bridges heritage appreciation with emerging technology—reimagining traditional artworks into contemporary digital expressions.

💡 $100 per duo (single headset)

Feel free to DM me if you have any questions—happy to share more.

01/05/2026

OPEN CALL — ASEAN XR ARTISTS & RESEARCHERS

BENIOS invites artists, practitioners, and researchers across ASEAN to participate in a curated XR platform spanning exhibition, research, and cross-border collaboration.

This open call is part of an ongoing curatorial inquiry into XR as a medium of presence rather than representation, focusing on embodied experience, memory systems, and participatory archives.

The proposed group exhibition for Singapore Art Week 2027 explores:
• Visceral Reality — XR as embodied, affective, relational experience • XR Legacies — XR as memory, ancestry, and cultural continuity

We welcome works at all stages (existing, in-progress, new), including VRChat, Open Brush, Unity, Unreal, and beyond. Participatory and multiplayer works are encouraged.

Selected artists will be supported with: • Meta Quest 3 exhibition setup (10 devices) • XR production and curatorial support • Opportunities for future collaborations

This project is currently undergoing funding applications. Artist fees are not guaranteed at this stage, but any secured funding will prioritise artist support.
5 artists in this open call will be selected for a group exhibition.

Submission Deadline: 14 May 2026 (12PM SGT) Artist Notification: 15 July 2027
Apply: [email protected] (Indicate: SAW Open Call / XR Network / or Both)

Submission Terms: Artists retain full ownership. Materials are used solely for confidential curatorial review and will not be shared without consent. All submissions will be deleted after 15 July 2027. Selected artists will enter a separate agreement.

We welcome diverse cultural perspectives and experimental XR practices across ASEAN.
🔗 Full details in bio link

30/03/2026

It is my deepest honour to present my 2026 XR artwork “Mothers Body Remembers” and ‘s 2025 XR project, “Echoes of the Bay,” part of and ‘s Singapore Design Week with two live XR painting performances as part of “Noesis Converse Nation 2” at the on 28th March, organised by the Poetry Festival Singapore.

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to and .valles1 for the invitation and for creating a platform that fosters meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration across Singapore’s creative community last Saturday. I want to thank my XR Arts Management students, whose dedication in facilitating audience engagement with the XR experiences made the presentation a success. Special thanks to Hong Wee Seng and Jennifer for collaborating with me on the two live XR poetry performances, bringing a renewed dimension to their poetries.

During the programme, I performed a live VR painting in response to Hong Wee Seng’s “幻觉之林 | The Forest of Illusion,” translating the poem into a dynamic landscape of data-like trees and expanding distortions, an evolving visual system that reflects the poem’s internal implosions and collapses.

For Jennifer Leong’s “After Georgette Chen: Compositions with Fruits,” I reinterpreted poetic metaphors through layered fruit forms and generative compositions, exploring themes of origin, transformation, and perception of egg and chicken theory.

These visual translations are made possible through XR as a medium where scale, temporality, and embodiment allow poetry to unfold beyond static representation into lived, spatial experiences.

This marks my first presentation at the National Gallery Singapore, and I look forward to contributing further to the 2026 Poetry Festival in July with special thanks to DBS Bank for supporting this programme. And final big thanks to for these amazing photos and .nzo my XR Production Lead! Also happy to improvise with the talented .meur

10/02/2026

Osmanthus - a letter to my parents, 2025

Using the traditional phonetic system zhuyin, which is unique to Taiwan, I spent 80 hours writing a heartfelt letter to my parents, reflecting on gratitude, devotion, and the tender care of aging bodies.

At the center blooms the osmanthus flower, drawn from my mother’s Chinese name 桂花, the origin of my life. From this core, gentle ripples expand like the unfolding of the universe, in connection to my father’s name 金星, Venus, a planet that anchors the celestial zhuyin pattern into constellation of the artist’s world.

26/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited my XR exhibition, Mother’s Body Remembers, over the past two weekends. My home studio has been deeply blessed by the presence of over 120 visitors, neighbours, friends, and fellow practitioners.

The final Saturday opening will take place on 31 January, 3–6 PM, I hope to have many of you there.

I am currently away in Taichung National Theater attending LAB × Interdisciplinary Platform until 6 February, so I’ll miss meeting some of you in person. Sending my gratitude and presence across distance ✨

22/01/2026

2026 Singapore Art Week “Mother’s Body Remembers” XR exhibition

Chorale: O Magnum Mysterium

18/01/2026

The opening of my XR exhibition Mother’s Body Remembers has been deeply encouraging. Thank you to everyone who visited, supported the work, and shared conversations over the weekend 🤍 Beyond the turnout, what stayed with me most were the signs of how Singapore’s art landscape is quietly evolving.

Some reflections from this experience:
1. Art within neighbourhoods
This exhibition took place in my home art studio within a residential neighbourhood, rather than the city centre. Neighbours from my own block and nearby buildings came by, sharing how meaningful it felt to encounter thoughtful, high quality art close to home. Opening a private home for art visitation is still rare in Singapore, but this experience suggests its growing relevance.

2. Supporting ground up initiatives
The exhibition was ticketed at SGD 10 and all slots were fully booked, with only two days left available. This affirmed that audiences are willing to support independent creative work through a modest contribution. Some visitors even chose to donate more to support XR art growing within neighbourhoods. The ability to redeem tickets via SG Culture Pass and Singapore Airlines Pelago also helped invite wider participation.

3. From virtual reality to visceral reality
The works paired physical paintings with XR experiences. While some visitors were initially hesitant about VR, many left deeply moved. This reflects a shift from virtual reality as a tool towards what I call visceral reality, where the body, emotions, and inner states become central to the experience.
This practice is now guiding me towards Visceral Quantum Reality, where XR becomes a space for meditation, breath work, and energy self regeneration. The focus is not spectacle, but grounding, healing, and embodied presence through technology.

I hope to continue developing this work into a Singapore led XR legacy practice rooted in care, memory, and community. 24th Sat I will be around so come and visit!

31/12/2025

Thank you 2025, 2026: walking into my proposed Viseral Quantum Reality ✨ the best experience of 2025: hug your loved ones more :)

謝謝2025, 2026邁入我提倡的量子內化現象學。2025的回顧: 多抱你所愛的人 :)

What I will be doing:
*spend more time in monasteries than in museums
*make sacred gematrical inscription in visceral quantum realities rather than painting for the desired flesh
*embrace vision from the heart, soul, and mind
*a hard no is the best yes ha!

24/12/2025

Grateful to the 6th ANCER Arts & Culture Research Network and the inaugural Culture Futures Lab for the platform to present The Future of Virtual Materiality & Digital Heritage with Dr. Rulin Chen at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 12 December 2025.

Co-organised by the CUHK MA in Cultural Management and the Centre for Cultural Studies, the conference brought together scholars, cultural leaders, and institutions to examine the evolving relationship between culture, technology, and the Commons. Special thanks to (Singapore) and the Cleveland Museum of Art for granting access to high-resolution 3D-scanned artefacts, including works not yet publicly available, enabling rare experimental engagement.

This project introduces an immersive VR framework where participants study museum-grade digital artefacts before entering a process of “second creation” using Open Brush, painting directly onto virtual heritage objects. The approach shifts audiences from passive viewers to active co-authors, fostering personal connection, cross-cultural dialogue, and collective meaning-making. Participants leave with digital outputs that extend engagement and authorship beyond the session.

The findings position immersive VR within critical heritage studies and VR ethnography, reframing heritage as relational, processual, and performative rather than static. VR becomes an ethnographic site where knowledge is produced through embodied, time-based participation—challenging distinctions between original and reproduction, curator and audience.

We welcome conversations with organisations interested in collaboration, pilot programmes, or institutional adaptation.

20/12/2025

*look at the center water droplet of my painting, the nature murmuration will be unveiled onto you. See what patterns will emerge in your consciousness (meditate with caution).

“Visceral Reality to unveil the Light, Mandala/Mandorla to ground back to the Origin of water that nourishes my Light.” Thank you collector Amber in Taiwan to collect the first series of my ㄅㄆㄇㄈ (Zhuyin) mandala, the rebirth of my new form of Light Tracing.

A Drop of Blessing, 2025
60 cm diameter
Mixed media on canvas

“Water is the first breath of existence, the primordial source from which life, joy, and endurance quietly arise. It moves through the earth as nourishment and through the human body as memory, shaping both land and flesh in unseen but essential ways.

This work is a contemplative offering to that sacred origin. From its centre, a spiral of blessing and gratitude emerges, turning gently upon itself before expanding outward, echoing the ripples of a single drop upon still water. The gesture becomes a quiet prayer, an invocation of continuity, renewal, and the unseen grace that sustains all living beings.”

Tomorrow 21st December is the new cycle of a 80-year Light Spectrum. As we accelerate our consciousness through quantum computing and AI, remember to hug the trees and give thanks to the flowers that bring us joy.

16/12/2025

Volunteer Opportunity: Art-Tech Facilitator for Singapore Art Week 2026

We are seeking dedicated volunteers for the exhibition “Mother’s Body Remembers,” a key highlighted exhibition during the Singapore Art Week 2026. Volunteers will gain frontline and backend experience in the intersection of contemporary art and immersive technology at the artist’s studio.

Role: Exhibition Facilitator & VR Guide Exhibition Location: Blk 448B Punggol Way (822448)
 Dates:
1. Exhibition Opening: January 16 Friday (6-9pm) 3 pax volunteers
2. 1 pax from 3-6pm for the rest of the dates: Jan 17, 18, 24, 25, 31 & February 1, 2026. (Sat & Sun)
 Schedule: 3-hours gallery sit + 30 mins preparation/closing of VR devices. One volunteer per day; multiple days are welcome and encouraged.

Key Responsibilities & Learning Outcomes: • Technical Skills: Operate VR headsets and learn the basics of VR/XR file management. • Audience Engagement: Facilitate and guide visitors in using VR tools to create artworks that integrate into the exhibition. • Visitor Insight: Collect data and feedback, contributing directly to the improvement of future art-tech projects. • Curatorial Insight: Gain an understanding of the considerations behind exhibiting within an artist’s studio environment.

Ideal Candidate: Interested in art, technology, and audience interaction. No prior VR experience required, training will be provided.

How to Apply:
Directly message to this account with your preferred date/dates. 
Let’s shape immersive art experiences together!

Benedict Yu

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