Ground Loops
January 22, 2026
I curated Ground Loops, an exhibition and series of experimental workshops gathering Singapore- and New York-based artists and teachers imagining possibilities beyond prevailing digital and social codes.
Featuring artworks by bani haykal, Charmaine Poh, Melanie Hoff, ong kian peng, and Zainab Aliyu, alongside a newly commissioned publication by Neta Bomani and Shrub, Ground Loops intertwines software and soil, surveillance and laughter, movement and mark-making. Across the exhibition, artists critically transform archives—personal, historical, and computational—using approaches such as language, artificial intelligence, and ritual assemblage. Alongside the exhibition, learners are invited to play close to the metal of the machine in three workshops facilitated by Melanie Hoff and Tommy Martinez from School for Poetic Computation and Ashley Hi from Feelers. Together, the exhibited works and workshops propose alternative ways of being with technology, foregrounding embodiment, play, and mutual exchange.
Ground loops, electrical phenomena, occur when multiple points connected to the same circuit are intended to have the same ground reference potential, but instead have a different potential between them. The result is unintended interference in audio, video, and computer systems. Like circuits, exhibitions, classrooms, and communities are sites of common connection and dissonance. In these spaces of encounter, noise is vital.
Ground Loops is co-presented by School for Poetic Computation and Feelers at SCAPE for Singapore Art Week. The exhibition is on view January 22 - January 31, 2026.
