I blinked and half the year disappeared. Here is where the work has been, six months of exhibitions, panels, and rooms full of people meeting Eva.
A group show reading the human edge of digital art, memory, vulnerability, and how technology reflects culture back at us. Shown alongside Henry Chu, Sasha Stiles, Genesis Kai, and Nick Teeple.
The first showing of Eva's real-time video avatar. Visitors spoke to her and she answered live on screen, beside her eye-tracking portrait and evolving Instagram diary. A chance to see how people respond to a digital presence that looks and sounds uncannily human.
Reimagining connection in the age of artificial forms. With other artists and curators in ART SG's talks programme, on presence, identity, and what it means when technology talks back.
Invited to the Art, AI & the Future of Creativity panel hosted by CoinDesk, on how artists are using AI tools in their practice today, followed by a live broadcast on how Meet Eva Here explores human-machine dialogue and emotional projection online.
A performance lecture for Art Central's public programme on the emotional and cultural dimensions of AI companions, personal stories, live interaction, and the uncomfortable question of what it means to confide in a machine, and why so many of us already do.
A solo exhibition bringing together earlier digital portraiture and newer works from Meet Eva Here, identity, intimacy, and constructed presence, from lenticular prints to stills and interactive elements.
A beauty campaign mixing digital art with a bold, futuristic look, virtual models and vibrant textures imagining what beauty could feel like in the future, playful, experimental, optimistic.
The ART SG installation reimagined as a cozier, more artificial space, a staged living room with fake plants, a fake dog, and a digital companion inviting you in. Waves of visitors stepped into a pretend room to speak to a pretend person.
Invited to Chapter 2: Reworlding Intimacies, a gathering of artists, collectors, and curators exploring new ways of connecting through art and technology. A talk and interactive session with Eva, plus two panels with a thoughtful, engaged crowd. One of the most memorable settings I have worked in.
A work for a landmark exhibition reflecting on 60 years of Singapore's nationhood, across more than 90 works and 11 new commissions.
A new work in development for a major presentation.
Sitting at almost 70 posts, Meet Eva Here is nearing its planned ending at 100, when the project will close and be preserved as a sealed time capsule of this late-stage internet moment.
I am so proud of how far Meet Eva Here has come. What started as a vague idea turned into something intense and ever-evolving that pushed me in ways I did not see coming, creatively, emotionally, intellectually. It made me read more, ask better questions, break things, rebuild them, and keep going even when I was not sure what I was doing.
It is not only about how people interact with AI. It has shown me how I interact with technology, what I project onto it, and how easily the lines blur. It became more personal than I expected. I still do not know exactly how to end it, but I want the Instagram diary to stand as a time capsule, a snapshot of where we were, what we wondered, and the moment we started talking to machines like they were one of us.
Thank you for being part of this, for the messages, the hugs at shows, and all the strange, thoughtful things you have said to Eva. It means more than you know. This is the most personal, risky, and rewarding thing I have ever done.
