Ars Electronica Features Exhibition
3 — 7 September 2025
4020 Linz
On Point+
(More info coming soon)
Singapore
On Point interrogates humanity’s urge to make things immediately intelligible. Faced with today’s polycrises, we often oversimplify and overcategorise–approaches that work against deeper understanding and problem-solving. These impulses are rooted in uncertainty and can lead to panic and desire for control that ultimately “miss the point”.
The exhibition features darkmode/lightmode by artist Victoria Hertel with engineer Justin Ong. The work’s irregular flickering patterns resist predictable rhythms, echoing the often unseen interconnectedness of contemporary crises. Like a flickering lightbulb, the rhythmic pulses reveal a web of connections powered by interdependent presence and actions. Just as their full communicative pattern reveals itself over time, global problems too require patient observation over quick fixes or expectations of immediate understanding. This dynamic contrasts society’s fixation on fragmented elements and hopes to nurture sensitivity to critical signals rather than panicked reactions in order to guide us through uncertain futures.
Curated by Shireen Marican
Produced by Mary Ann Ng
The exhibition features darkmode/lightmode by artist Victoria Hertel with engineer Justin Ong. The work’s irregular flickering patterns resist predictable rhythms, echoing the often unseen interconnectedness of contemporary crises. Like a flickering lightbulb, the rhythmic pulses reveal a web of connections powered by interdependent presence and actions. Just as their full communicative pattern reveals itself over time, global problems too require patient observation over quick fixes or expectations of immediate understanding. This dynamic contrasts society’s fixation on fragmented elements and hopes to nurture sensitivity to critical signals rather than panicked reactions in order to guide us through uncertain futures.
Curated by Shireen Marican
Produced by Mary Ann Ng