The ArtsScience Museum in Singapore

 

The ArtScience Museum in Singapore's iconic lotus-inspired building at Marina Bay Sands, is a space where art and science converge, a haven for creativity, cutting-edge innovation and the bold ideas that emerge out of unexpected connections. Since opening in 2011, the galleries have been a home for the world’s most radical thinkers, makers and shapers of the future, a multidisciplinary space that celebrates cosmology, couture, environmental justice, animation and everything in-between. The perfect port of call on a rainy day in Singapore. 

The largest private museum in Singapore, it focuses on the connections between art and science through hi-tech exhibits that push disciplinary boundaries, such as Levon Biss, widely regarded as the leading macro photographer of his generation. Working primarily with a custom-built camera system designed for extreme macro photography, Biss focuses on natural history, creating images that reveal aspects of the natural world normally invisible to the naked eye, exemplified by his extraordinary exhibition 'Insects: Microsculptures Magnified'.

Another exhibition 'TeamLab FutureWorld' is a world of art, science, magic and metaphor as seen through a collection of interactive art installations organized into two sections: City in Nature and Exploring New Frontiers. Both sections used cutting-edge science and technology to create ever-changing, evolving environments, was an invitation to have fun, to play and explore, but also to reflect on our own position relative to the natural world — a place where art, science and technology meet, realizing Leonardo da Vinci's famous maxim, "everything connects". The whole experience felt like stepping into a digital dream where art, science, and imagination collide. 

There was also 'Walk Through the Crystal Universe', a monumental, immersive and interactive artwork by teamLab, that uses points of light to create three-dimensional images in space, where we can immerse ourselves in a kaleidoscopic and multi-sensory space of colours and lights that constantly change based on individual and collective actions. Absolutely captivating and great fun indeed.

Levon Biss is widely regarded as the leading macro photographer of his generation

Levon Biss conducts his micro-photography work primarily from his dedicated studio 
in the Wiltshire countryside

The stunning Tortoise Beetle found in China has the most extraordinary body armour 

worthy of the finest Knight or Shogun, was created from over 8,000 individual photographs 

using a bespoke camera system and microscope

The spectacular metallic colours of this 'Iridescent Bark Mantis' from Malaysia

The Treehopper from Brazil can display an extraordinary diversity of shapes and forms

and can resemble a plant thorn, leaf or even an ant

The Orchid Cuckoo Bee from Brazil is the most spectacular of all bees in terms of 

size, colour and micro sculpture

My husband standing in the the immersive TeamLab art installation 

'City in Nature' where flowers bloom all around reminding us of the interconnectedness of all things

When a visitor moves in the space a ‘flow’ is born, and that flow creates an influence that extends far and wide - every other visitor will likewise create a flow, all coming together to create a vortex

This installation features a digitally rendered, aquatic world of underwater animals

Aerial Climbing is an interactive artwork created from horizontal bars of varying colours, 

projection, coloured light and sound. 

The Crystal Universe with its mirror floor was perfect for a taking a crazy portrait

A galaxy of hanging LEDs forms the world of teamLab’s immersive installaition Crystal Universe.

By installing LEDs in three-dimensional space, it's possible to create 

a real-time interactive, moving 3-D artwork

With mirrors on the floor and walls, the space becomes 3-dimensional

with very odd realities, such as two husbands in the same room

 

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