Is it just a game?
TheSystemGlitch is a reality game designed for Singaporeans to step out of their comfort zone and be more self-expressive. Using a ‘game’ as a Façade, ‘dares’ as a medium, participants can engage themselves in series of assignments. In the process, players would unknowingly get conditioned to fear less and do more.
The “game” consists of 9 stages, the first one being a invitation, and the last one as a con- clusion of it all.
The game is constructed around TheSystemGlitch’s motto, which ultimately aims to helps in character building to be a more confident and a self-expressive individual.
People who receive the first ticket (titled: ‘The Invitation’) are invited to play the game and to be the ‘glitches of the system’. The ticket displays the website and the password required to carry on the journey.
The Password : "astepforward"
A protest against comfort is a documentary film on TheSystemGlitch. A documentary of the reality game – ‘TheSystemGlitch’, shows participants stumbling upon a curious adven- ture that might potentially change their ways of living in ways they’ve never imagine. Told from the players’ perspectives, the film unfolds itself, where participants discover new ways of ‘play’, while unknowingly expanding their comfort zones.
Although the system glitch is an ongoing project, this film is a wrap up from start till now, showing another the journey of a participant, and understanding this game better through their challenges, difficulties and interviews.
A set of exclusive tickets that contains different passwords to access the website. The first ticket marks the start of a journey of ‘TheSystemGlitch’. People who receive the first ticket (titled: ‘The Invitation’) are invited to play the game and to be the ‘glitches of the system’. The ticket displays the website and the pass- word required to carry on the journey.
This game is designed to be exclusive. Akin to password clubs, where only people who know the password can enter, it gives one a feeling of being included in something bigger than themselves. A community where they feel belonged to, making people with the invitations feel special, and the ones that doesn’t have the password longing for it.
The film gives a glimpse of what TheSystemGlitch is about. An introductory film that invites and welcome visitors of the website to join the community of ‘glitches’ and fight against the ‘system’. The film drops hints as to what the game content might be about, but reserves its mystery. The ambiguity of the video draws participants to the ‘game’ with curiosity, leaving them wanting to participate and find out more.
This website operates as a portal/checkpoint to the game. It is a medium to communicate across the creator to his participants. The website requires a password in order for people to access it. Participants have to either chance upon the first ticket from the streets or get it from an existing participant in order to acquire the first password.
Upon entering the website, an introductory film can be viewed, and the assignment will reveal itself upon entering. Upon completing a task, uploading on Instagram, and #thesystemglitch. Another password can be found in a participant’s Instagram Direct Mailer and one can use that to find the next ‘assignment’, which in turn, leads to a new password.
Übermensch Biology Institute create perfect beings who master the spectrum of human potential to live in the perfect environment; Utopia (an island located in southeast Asia). Übermensch Biology Institute believe in only perfection.
It developed advance biomedical technology for selective breeding and also to transform existing humans to perfection, creating a bridge to utopia. Übermensch Biology Institute offers the opportunity to achieve and master the full spectrum of human potential, To be a Perfect person. The year long transformation program includes advance biology modification of a person’s DNA, Utopia Conditioning courses, as well as the teaching of way of life of the Utopians. The program guarantee perfection in personality, the understanding of 'true happiness', and most importantly attain citizenship of Utopia.
A Self-Help Manual that uses placebo to tackle the problem; Mentality issues
“Enlarging your manhood” manual is designed to help man who think their penis are too small. Most of the cases, the genitals is not the real problem, it's all in the head, a perspective, a wrong mindset. Man are slaves to their ego, and because of this unhealthy mindset of many man , more problem arise such as depression, low self confidence, hazardous penis enlargement methods, and even suicide thoughts.
This is a manual which seemingly tackles the technical aspect of the problem, but subtlety correcting the mindset via placebo, perspective correction, reasoning and their attitude towards the “problem”. This manual will let users regain their confidence through a methods and exercise that make them feel better about themselves.
Seng Jueh + Christina
Feat. Busker Eddie Lee
Trying to find
a space where she
can make her place.
Horizontal doors,
Bed frames, voltage
boxes,letter stores.
She tried it all .
Then at last, she
found a wall, that
is quite too tall.
A little strange,
sitting on a wall,
A little too tall.
But not anymore,
with people & all.
A two week observatory project surrounding Read Bridge, Clarke Quay in Singapore.
This video concludes the idea of how people can find potential in things more than its original functionality.
People shouldn't get too hung up of the idea that seating is equipvelant to a chair for example,
sometimes a wall can make do better.
A girl tries out different places to find an ideal seating spot. However, she began to feel more awkward and disappointed with every spot she tries. Closing to the end, she climbs up a hot spot in Singapore, the clarke quay read bridge and finds herself liking the new found seating spot. At the later part of the video, it collates different activities that can be seen at this bridge in a light, humorous tone.
A SketchBook for observation documentation
Camera as a observation tool. Photographs + Video Footages
This is an Image Manipulation project, a project base on exploration of image making through physical manipulation of an existing portrait. "trust the process!", they said.
This piece of work is based on a in-depth research of mass-suicide, in specific cult mass-suicide, where hundreds of followers kill themselves in perception that they will end up in heaven/paradise.
This graphic/animation sent a message “There is no paradise.”, in hopes that it will be provocative to the audience to think and reflect on their purpose in life. Without the idea of afterlife, we as humans will not be looking forward to death and see it as an ultimate goal in life; Death = paradise (heaven/paradise) . People will naturally focus more on this current life and make the full use of it.
Not only does this theory eliminate cult mass-suicide problems, it also applies to all mankind, being able to cherish whatever we have now and do something good with it before it’s too late. As humans are not accessible to the ultimate truth. It’s better for us to focus on this life then to follow something we don’t know for sure.
I imagine an ideal world where there’s no religion and no one perceive death as a path to heaven. Like in john’s Lennon’s “imagine”, the lyrics goes “living for today”.
Seng Jueh + Christina
Time space compression is the compression of speed that has compressed the space between any two points on the globe. Time-space compression also refers to technologies that seem to accelerate or elide spatial and temporal distances.
With so much overloading data “downloaded” in the virtual world, will virtual reality slowly take over reality?
Data travels at the speed of light. However, our senses were not made to perceive something so rapid. People, therefore choose to believe representations of reality when there is too much to process that is not on a human level or scale.
In this project, we wish to challenge and bring forth the idea of extensive reality. If virtual reality could be so easily altered and represented as real,
What? Then, is real?
Perceived Reality;
All the information we receive, be it on virtual online platforms, or in physical forms are in real time. The reality and the representations of reality therefore, appears at the same time.
In result of the excessive and unfiltered information that we receive,
we perceive all data, including representations of reality as real. We cannot differientiate between the two as the speed of data is beyond what our senses were made to perceive.
A threat to real ?
Time space compression brings people closer, for the better or for the worst, in a global world, it is natural that everyone have to participate and be involved.
However, it causes us to give up reality for the things that represents reality.
In that sense, the compression of time and space becoming a threat to what is real?
Short Film:
This Film shows a short experiment demonstrates how easily one can alter reality through the various technological advancements. Just 1 - 3 images are more than enough for people to believe whatever that are posted up is real. There seem to be little to no doubt about what is the true reality.
Main aim :
To create an alternate reality - Appear to be in ΩMalacca. This experiment is created to observe if people choose to believe representations of reality rather than what is truely real.
