Lim Kok Yoong on Being (T) Here: Existential Media in Post-virtual Geophilia

What is the meaning of existence? How do we come to doubt it? As our contemporary life is dispersed between the physical and virtual world, how can media technology offer us new modes of perception of our existence, with respect to a global, local or corporeal frame of reference? What are the aesthetic possibilities offered by these media technology? What kind of expression or statement can be made by the artists employing these media technologies?

By using ‘Locativeness’ as a vector in directing thoughts, systems and experiences, Lim Kok Yoong is researching the complexity of self-consciousness in time. In this forum, he will talk about his projects which he sees as metaphysical experiments he used to speculate his own existence and to reason about how we become conscious of ourselves in a world that is further complicated by a parallel virtual counterpart. The aim of his research and creative endeavours is to examine the role of media and technologies in assisting (if not augmenting) the faculties with which human beings can perceive his own existence, to gain a reflexive sense of being. This approach will open up new possibilities for the mind-body problem and the opportunity to probe the existential attitude in 21st century.