Artists Bio
Benedict Yu
Benedict Yu is a Visceral Reality Artist, mixed reality educator, and affective reality researcher working at the intersection of art, technology, and spirituality. Based between Singapore, Taiwan, and the EU, he creates virtual sanctuaries and immersive spaces designed to foster communal healing and self-reflection, particularly for unseen and marginalized communities worldwide. His practice explores the transformative potential of digital environments as spaces for spiritual introspection, collective storytelling, and emotional restoration. Through his transdisciplinary research, Yu continues to push the boundaries of mixed reality as a medium for healing, cultural preservation, and human connection.
Yu’s work has been exhibited internationally in cities including New York, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Seoul. His works are held in major collections such as Mapletree Investments Singapore, Mediacorp Singapore, the Courtois Collection (Paris), GAW Capital (Hong Kong), and Panxing Construction Development (Taiwan). His projects have been presented at renowned institutions and venues, including the New Arts Museum Singapore, Asian Civilisation Museum, SomoS Berlin, Zwölf Apostel Kirche Berlin, the Courtois Collection Paris, Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay, the National Museum of Singapore, the National Design Centre, Gillman Barracks, Gajah Gallery, and Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti.
Notable projects include his invitation to exhibit at 29Rooms with VICE Media (alongside Billie Eilish and other major brands), Singapore’s largest indoor 29-meter mural commissioned by GR.iD Shopping Mall, the Rebirth installation with Pelago by Singapore Airlines, XR project with the New Art Museum Singapore to transform Yayoi Kusama’s works into mixed reality experience, and contributions to major cultural events such as Singapore Art Week, Berlin Art Week, Singapore Design Week, the Berlin Temple of the Body Rave Music Festival, and Passion Art Festival by People’s Association Singapore.
Yu’s contributions to the arts have been recognized with several awards, including the TCYH Millennium Trust by Mapletree Investments (2023) and the Berlin Kiez Film Festival Award (2024).
Jake Tan
Jake Tan (b.1994) is a New Media Artist, Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, and Co-Founder of SERIAL COMMUNICATION, a studio that focuses on Research & Development of proprietary digital assets in the fields of Creative Technology, Blockchain, and Extended Reality(XR).
Jake's artistic practice focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and society, where he has exhibited and was part of artistic residencies in Singapore, Austria, Germany, Japan & Istanbul. To create Jake's New Media Art, typically involves technological research & development in the following realms: physically through microcontroller and electronics programming, 3D printing, and scanning. Digitally through programming, AR/VR/MR production through game engines, and intangibly through projection mapping and XR-focused user interface and experience design.
His studio, SERIAL COMMUNICATION, was selected for incubation grants by Singapore Management University, and Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Media and Design, Singapore, where he also received his BFA degree in Interactive Media(2020), and MiniMasters™ in General Management(2021) in Nanyang Business School.
