Media Art Nexus (MAN)

Media Art Nexus or MAN is is an urban media platform for curating and promoting media art content by the NTU community as well as emerging and established local and international artists.

Integrated with the curriculum of the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), MAN has become a pedagogical tool used within and beyond the classroom and a learning ‘playground’ for experimentation and prototyping where students can be creative. MAN is part of an educational effort to develop awareness for urban media art, strengthen the convergence of public art and communities in Singapore, and exchange created content with international public art institutions and research institutes.

MAN enhances students' learning experience and vibrancy on campus, by promoting interdisciplinary collaborations in art, design, science, medicine and engineering technologies. ADM has collaborated with many international academic institutions, media laboratories, and cultural enterprises such as Ars Electronica Centre and Festival Linz, UCLA Art|Sci Lab, the Urban Screens Production Australia just to name a few.

Conceived in 2016, MAN was formally launched in 2018 as part of the Campus Art Trail.

Description adapted from mediartnexus.com

A glimpse of some past exhibitions on MAN. See the full list of exhibitions at mediaartnexus.com

Waves (2022)

WAVES is an annual digital art event, with an exhibition showcasing student artwork at the University of Kent, in collaboration with Nanyang Technological University, the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, and Ceruleum | School of Visual Arts.

WAVES Digital Art Exhibition is a bridge between students from four different universities internationally. The event is curated in collaboration with the University of Kent (UKC) in the UK, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Reims Conservatoire in France, and Ceruleum School of Visual Arts in Switzerland.

WAVES 2022 was themed Horizons, ecology, climate and wonders. The exhibition showcased student works on MAN as well as the Jarman Plaza at UKC.

Learn more at wavesart.org

Full video of student works on WAVES 2022 youtube:

Singapore: Inside Out | Tokyo (2017)

MAN was one of 13 Singaporean and Japanese leading contemporary creative talents from the performing and visual arts industry that took part in Singapore: Inside Out Tokyo from 25-27 August 2017. Themed "HyperCity", the showcase focused on the coming together of creatives from Singapore and Japan in joint exploration of the cultural trends arising from the shifts towards a digital urban age. 

MAN collaborated with the Singaporean fashion designer Josiah Chua and his 2018 capsule collection, titled “光”, which is “light” in Japanese, creating an interactive projection across large screen of dazzling stars and light that moved with the viewer called Crepuscular Rays of the Moon. The piece translates the idea of time in hyperspace and transformation as depicted in the anime magical girl series of Sailor Moon and is inspired by myriad abstract dreamlike animated fantasies.

Learn more in the press release or at mediaartnexus.com.

The MAN installation is part of NTU Museum's public art initiatives, built in collaboration with ADM Associate Professor Ina Conradi and new media artist Mark Chavez. Artistic duo Conradi and Chavez are based in Singapore and Los Angeles, and have collaborated on numerous art and new media projects for the last 20 years. 

Artist bio adapted from mediaartnexus.com

In its first year of operation, MAN featured more than 400 works by the NTU community, students, local and international artists. On average, it plays 3,640 hours of original content per year. 

Learn more about MAN at mediaartnexus.com