Old is gold: nestled amongst the new skyscrapers mushrooming in our skyline, our familiar and beloved shophouses have now taken on an iconic status, reminding us of our heritage and providing a glimpse of life in pre-independent Singapore. Epigram Books’ latest addition to its colouring books series celebrates these nostalgic terrace houses with 20 illustrated images of Singapore’s favourite shophouses from Ann Siang Hill to Joo Chiat Road. Printed on high quality paper, the pages of this book can be individually removed and framed.

As digital technology has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other, there is a need to also change the way in which advertising communicates with its audience. Thus, a good advertising campaign should be one that lever­ ages on digital communication and co­creation to enable active engagement, participation and reaction from the Audience. It is about creating a participatory environment for the target audience to co­create successful advertising with the Creative in order to increase its effectiveness.

The experimental music scene in Singapore emerged in 1990s and grew out of the underground rock music scene of the 1980s. In this sense, the experimental scene has a shared history with the development of popular music in Singapore that occurred concurrently with Western popular music movements. Over the past 20 years, the scene has gained momentum and developed into a small, yet vibrant community.

The Movement of Things project is an exploration into the qualities and properties of movement. Through a range of exercises these movements are captured and translated by custom-built software and the use of an autonomous, tiny and wireless motion sensor. A series of Motion Sensing Extensions suggest different approaches of how to use a motion sensor within various physical environments to capture movement to better understand the materialization of movement and new forms of interactions through movement.    

A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed and developed in relation to interactive performances that draw upon or encapsulate primary themes from the distinct but interrelated disciplines of cybernetics and Existentialist philosophy. Ideas from both fields are identified as converging in classic works across the history of interactive performance including by Kaprow, Beuys, Klüver, Abramović, and Galloway and Rabinowitz.

Over the past ten years, the profession of arts therapy has come a long way in South East Asia. As the first and truly only international professional association in the Asia-Pacific region, the Australian and New Zealand Arts Therapy Association (ANZATA) is now firmly positioned as a professional community which contributes effectively towards the development of the arts therapies. In all countries where arts therapy has evolved, there have been significant challenges inherent in establishing and developing a credible professional identity.

This chapter analyses a theatre performance of The Kite Runner performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2014. Borrowing Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘aura’ interpreted as a way of ‘getting closer to things’, I propose that Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel establishes a ‘genuineness’ to an Afghan culture. In Spangler’s attempt to avoid being culturally offensive, his stage adaptation remained ‘truthful’ to the novel, a form of fidelity to the source.

This paper examines the reflection on artwork created by four educators, of two postgraduate art psychotherapy training programmes from two distinct cultural and geographic parts of the world, the UK and Singapore, during an overseas student trip. This trip was part of a partnership activity between institutions to develop an intercultural experience between staff and students of both places.

Uncanny' works by a number of contemporary artists are analysed in relation to the themes and insights of both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy. This reveals that central ideas from these largely neglected fields remain current and potent within innovative art practices. Artists employ cybernetic systems to provoke aesthetic sensations of the uncanny, while simultaneously encapsulating existentialist concerns. Pierre Huyghe's mysterious installation responds to the life-breath of visitors to mutate human cancer cells.

This paper addresses the current challenges of using KPIs to measure the impacts of the arts, against a framework of what it means to do ‘performance measurement’ for arts organisations.