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

29/06/2026

Take a 5D4N break (28 Oct–1 Nov) and explore South Korea with an arts tech artist (me) and art manager extraordinaire Chrispy Chong. 🇰🇷✨

Together, we’ll journey through the 16th Gwangju Biennale, You Must Change Your Life, and the 13th Busan Biennale, Dissident Chorus, discovering some of the most exciting contemporary art, technology, and cultural practices shaping Asia today.

Only a few seats remain! Join us while they’re still available. 🌿

Early bird pricing is still open, inclusive of hotels, intercity transport, and Biennale admission tickets! Link at the bio :)

28/05/2026

XR LEGACY
Workshop 1: XR Visual Translation & Storytelling

6 June 2026 (Sat)
6:30pm – 9:30pm
Arts x Tech Lab
28 Aliwal St, #02-05
Aliwal Arts Centre, Singapore 199918

Why XR LEGACY?

How do we preserve memories, gestures, emotions, and presence within increasingly immersive digital worlds?

Supported by the National Arts Council Arts x Tech Lab, XR LEGACY positions Extended Reality (XR) not as entertainment, but as a critical artistic medium for exploring memory, embodiment, spatial storytelling, and digital culture.

As images evolve into environments and immersive realities, this workshop asks:

What happens when reality becomes immersive?
What is lost when experiences become endlessly reproducible?
How do we preserve presence within accelerated technological systems?

In this workshop, participants will explore how existing visual works can/cannot be translated into immersive XR environments using Open Brush and spatial composition methodologies.

Together, we will investigate:
• XR as translation rather than replication
• Spatial painting as embodied image-making
• Scale, depth, perspective, and environmental composition
• XR as a living archive for memory and affective experience
• Digital craftsmanship and materiality
• Presence, immersion, and spectatorship in XR

Participants will create early-stage XR prototypes that transform existing artworks into immersive spatial experiences.

Open to:
Visual artists, designers, interdisciplinary practitioners, and anyone curious about immersive storytelling beyond commercial and entertainment frameworks.

Requirements:
Please submit an existing artwork (painting, photography, video, illustration, etc.) to reinterpret during the workshop.

No prior XR experience required.
Sign up via link in bio.

This programme is supported by National Arts Council Arts x Tech Lab.

Project managed by & .park
KV .g.h.design
Technical Lead

21/05/2026

Introducing Arts x Tech Lab: XR Legacy — a three-month, practice-led and mentorship-driven prototyping programme supporting artists in experimenting with and translating interdisciplinary artistic practices into XR formats. At the end of the workshops, selected participants will be given an opportunity to showcase their work through a curated public exhibition.

Centred on artistic intent, conceptual clarity, and sustainable production workflows, the programme is designed to equip participants with transferable XR capabilities that can meaningfully extend their practices beyond the programme itself.

Bridging visual art, performance and creative technology, XR Legacy programmes welcomes artists and even the general public that has deep interest in arts and tech.

Programme Calendar

Artist-Led XR Workshops
6 June (Saturday), 6:30pm – 9:30pm
XR Visual Translation & Storytelling led by Benedict Yu

7 June (Sunday), 2pm – 5pm
Weaving Memory: Objects, Memory, Worlds led by Kai Ting Koh

11 June (Thursday), 3pm – 6pm
Embodied Intelligence: Motion Capture for Movement Artists led by Christopher Chew, Avventura

12 June (Friday), 2pm – 5pm
Lazy Worldbuilding Workshop: Survival Economies and Tactics led by Debbie Ding .sg

Mentorship
2 participants from each workshop will be selected by the mentors to undergo close mentorship and knowledge transfer throughout July, and be considered for the August public exhibition.

Public Exhibition
15-21 August 2026

🔗 Sign up here: https://forms.gle/NBchWMEa4tRMWg618
📍 Link also in bio
⚠️ Sign ups will close 7 days before each workshops and the selected 15 participants will be announced 5 days before the workshop.
This programme is supported by the National Arts Council’s Arts x Tech Lab initiative.

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!

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