Winner, NUS Museum Book Prize, Fresh Take, Art and Market, Singapore. Digital Spaces: Entry Points Into the Southeast Asian Net Culture and Rave Scenes, article for Art & Market, Singapore [Winning Entry of Fresh Take Competition]

Amanda’s Digital Spaces: Entry Points Into the Southeast Asian Net Culture and Rave Scenes won the third edition of ‘Fresh Take’ writing contest by Art & Market. Here, Amanda reflects on her interest during the pandemic, which brought her to the multifaceted virtual art and music landscape.

“Strangely, my curiosities did not channel myself towards any commercial gallery online viewing rooms, but rather towards virtual gigs that presented an outlook of the region’s underground music landscape. This journey was paralleled by co-creation of an interactive 3D space for born-digital art, which encapsulated the energy of an internet subculture within the young Southeast Asians — infused with spirits of experimentality and freedom. Taking these online experiences as points of departure, the following review offers an overview of new possibilities, emerging from internet-based initiatives.” 

– Excerpt from Digital Spaces: Entry Points Into the Southeast Asian Net Culture and Rave Scenes by Amanda Ariawan, 2022.

Read the full text on Art & Market: artandmarket.net/analysis/2022/8/2/digital-spaces-entry-points-into-the-southeast-asian-net-culture-and-rave-scenes

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