The Story of History

In this exhibition within an exhibition, it creates an exhibition within an exhibition named The Story of History: Imagine Bras Basah Bugis in Time. Mimicking a general museum-like exhibition where new technology and new media art are created and used to enhance the user experience and understanding, this exhibition deployed the following methods to make the audience believe that “everything is real”.

This exhibition deployed generative art making in all assets production. Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. It is a representation of the philosophical idea of “rhizome” where knowledge is like a nonlinear network that “connects any point to any other point”. It is like the process of collecting evidence, clues are intertwined to help us puzzle out the past.

Virtual Reality (VR) is used to create a stimulating environment where things are hyper-realistic. A simulating environment of the tropical landscape of Bras Basah Bugis terrain is covered with plants. It is a simulation of the environment before the arrival of civilisation in Singapore.