Expanding Frequencies is a half-day gathering organised by Common Protocol and co-presented with arebyte Digital Art Centre, bringing together artists, curators, and organisers to reflect on the evolving digital art landscape. The programme combines a panel discussion on infrastructures of support, a series of presentations by invited practitioners, and an open-format for exchange and networking.
This programme is supported by the National Arts Council Singapore and Singapore Global Network (SGN).
Schedule
3.00PM Introduction by Clara Che Wei Peh, Curator, Common Protocol
3.05PM Infrastructures of Support
This panel discussion brings together curators and organisers working across contexts in Singapore and London to consider how structures of support for digital art and innovation are being built and sustained.
Pita Arreola, Head of Programmes, arebyte Digital Art Centre
Tao-Tao Chang, Director, Digital Innovation in the Arts, British Council
Clara Che Wei Peh, Curator and Foundation, Common Protocol
Dr Linda Rocco, Curator (Arts & Technology), Somerset House Studios, and Tutor (Research), Royal College of Art
Tsige Tafesse, Producer, Arts Technologies, Serpentine
4.00PM Practicing Today
This session brings together a series of short presentations by four invited practitioners. Each offers insight into how an artist is broadening the digital art landscape from within their own work. The session is co-convened with Sean Cham, artist and researcher based in London.
Ibiye Camp, Artist, Designer and Educator
Adam Cole, Artist / Researcher, Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London
Kim Ying, Artist-technologist
Studio Playfool, Artist / Designer
5.00PM Open Fields
The programme concludes with an Unconference, designed to encourage dialogue and connection among participants for peer-to-peer exchange and provide ground for future collaborations.
Facilitators:
Abigail Miller, Curator, Writer and Cultural strategist
Stephanie Yeap, Programme & Communications Manager, Bagri Foundation, and independent arts journalist
Designs by Ninaad Kothawade
Speakers
Pita Arreola
Pita Arreola is Head of Programmes at arebyte Digital Art Centre, leading the organisation’s artistic programme. Based in London, she is also the Co-Founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform supporting new media talent. Since 2017, Pita has collaborated with over 200 artists from across the globe, and from 2021 to 2024 she served as Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s–Now (V&A, Thames & Hudson, 2024), a book tracing the histories and evolution of digital arts.
Ibiye Camp
Ibiye Camp is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, designer, and educator based in London. Camp’s research-led practice explores postcolonial conditions, technology, trade, and the built environment within the African Diaspora. Her work highlights the conflicts, biases, and digital glitches that exist between modern technological systems and lived, physical landscapes.
Dr Sean Cham
Sean Cham is an artist and historian working across photography, performance, installation, and site specific intervention. Through a research-led practice, he examines the construction of power and historical narratives. He is a Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art, teaching on the MA Curating Contemporary Art and MA Photography programmes. He holds a PhD in History of Art from Birkbeck, University of London, undertaken in collaboration with London’s National Gallery.
Tao-Tao Chang
Tao-Tao Chang is Director of Digital Innovation in the Arts at the British Council, responsible for a programme that seeks to position artists as critical drivers of technological innovation. Prior to this she was Associate Director of Infrastructure and Major Programmes at the Arts and Humanities Research Council, where – over a period of six years – she built and led the team that secured upwards of £400 million of new funding for creative national capability. She has worked in the cultural and creative sector of more than 15 years.
Adam Cole
Adam Cole challenges the normative fantasies embedded in AI networks, seeking more diverse, poetic and sensual alternatives. His work has been presented internationally, including at SXSW, Tate Britain and Ars Electronica. He is a winner of the SXSW XR Audience Award, a Lumen Prize finalist and an Onassis ONX AiR Fellow.Abigail Miller is a curator, cultural producer and writer working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Her work is driven by the belief that arts-led innovation is critical to building more diverse technologies and a more sustainable creative future. Her work spans public programming, research, curation, production, and cross-sector partnerships. She has collaborated with artist studios and built programs that connect cultures, widen audiences, and reimagine institutional structures and funding. She currently leads Avant Arte’s digital art department alongside independent projects.
Abigail Miller
Abigail Miller is a curator, cultural producer and writer working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Her work is driven by the belief that arts-led innovation is critical to building more diverse technologies and a more sustainable creative future. Her work spans public programming, research, curation, production, and cross-sector partnerships. She has collaborated with artist studios and built programs that connect cultures, widen audiences, and reimagine institutional structures and funding. She currently leads Avant Arte’s digital art department alongside independent projects.
Speakers
Clara Che Wei Peh
Clara Che Wei Peh is a curator and arts writer from Singapore. She is the founder of Common Protocol, and the initiator of Monday Chatroom, an itinerant discussion series on issues surrounding art and technology. Previously, she was Public Programmes Curator at Asymmetry, Asia Collection Fellow at KADIST, Curator of Art Dubai Digital, and Adjunct Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts.
Studio Playfool
Playfool is an artist / designer duo by Daniel Coppen and Saki Maruyama. Through experimental games and interactive installations, they use play to intervene in and reimagine the relationship between human agency and technology, inviting critical dialogue with our technosocial reality.Linda Rocco, PhD, is a curator and researcher. She is Tutor (Research) at the RCA and Curator (Arts & Technology) at Somerset House Studios, where she leads n-Space, an art/tech fellowship and experimental research network. Her practice-based research positions the curatorial as a site of infrastructural experimentation, examining how advanced technologies reconfigure economic, social and institutional paradigms within the arts and society more broadly. Through programming, exhibitions and cross-sector projects, she mobilises curatorial practice beyond its established institutions to prototype new collaborative models, intervene critically in public interest contexts and foster engagement with emerging technosocial conditions.
Dr Linda Rocco
Linda Rocco, PhD, is a curator and researcher. She is Tutor (Research) at the RCA and Curator (Arts & Technology) at Somerset House Studios, where she leads n-Space, an art/tech fellowship and experimental research network. Her practice-based research positions the curatorial as a site of infrastructural experimentation, examining how advanced technologies reconfigure economic, social and institutional paradigms within the arts and society more broadly. Through programming, exhibitions and cross-sector projects, she mobilises curatorial practice beyond its established institutions to prototype new collaborative models, intervene critically in public interest contexts and foster engagement with emerging technosocial conditions.
Tsige Tafesse
Tsige Tafesse is an art worker working across contemporary art, critical technology and cultural infrastructure. She is Arts Technologies R&D Producer at Serpentine Galleries, where she leads the Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship. Her previous institutional roles span Processing Foundation, The Kitchen and the New Museum. She has held fellowships and residencies with Eyebeam, the Ford Foundation’s New Media Leaders programme, NYU Scholar in Residence, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Leadership Praxis and NEW INC Art & Code YR 10. Her work, research and conversations have been presented at transmediale, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Art Basel Hong Kong, Princeton, MOCA LA and Creative Time. Her collaborative practice also includes co-founding collective BUFU.
Stephanie Yeap
Stephanie Yeap is Programme & Communications Manager at the Bagri Foundation. Her background spans arts journalism, editorial, communications and lecturing. Her areas of focus are modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art.
Kim Ying
Kim Ying [METAL_UPA] is a Singapore-born, London-based artist working in sound, light and kinetic machines. Rooted in electronic club culture, dance and game worlds, her work translates immaterial bodies into fleeting encounters, where data and archives become spatial choreography. She has exhibited at Ars Electronica, Copeland Gallery and Gaffe.