 Hi, I'm Eugene. I'm an artist in Singapore. I'm 28 years old this year. Let's start with some of my early works, which flashed just now. This was a photographic work that I did in 2010. This actually changed my life completely. I was going to be a game designer, working to be a game designer programmer in a big company or some sort like that. And then I made this picture to leave photography behind because I was looking through my portfolio. Some of my friends knew that I did photography. And then they were like, hey, show me one of your best works. Then I flipped through my photography stuff and I realized that I do not have one picture that I want to show people. So I did this work and I left it there, 2010. And I went on to do programming. I was really proud of this, but two years, nobody cared about it. It was on the internet, nobody cared about it. Then suddenly one day, it just went viral on Facebook. So I woke up and then I saw 2,000 shares on my Facebook. What is going on? Then later that day, it became a bigger number. Then suddenly, galleries were contacting me saying, hey, we want to see more. But the thing is that was the only one. So then the galleries were like, okay, never mind. Let's just show this one. And then after that, it has been two years and I've made two solo shows and more works have come. And this year, I had my second solo show at the beginning of this year. And there was a company who I've known for a while. They saw me at my first show. They decided, hey, let's feature you in my company calendar. And I'll buy one of each of your works. And this is the calendar. So back then, when I was doing art, I was an art student. I went to various museums. And then there was one particular one where I went to London. And it was called A New Perspective Show. And I went there really excited. Let's go and see a new perspective. So I went in. I was a little bit disappointed. But there were good works to be shown. Really bizarre works. But it wasn't what I perceived as a new perspective. So being a coder, artist, I decided to do my own version of what I felt was a new perspective. So I made a pair of goggles. I bought them from a shop. It is one of those remote control first person view where you can fly an airplane. And then you put a camera on top. And then you put on these goggles. And you can see from that airplane. So I bought one of those. And I decided to use them to change people's perspective. So there were three ways I manipulated those goggles. The first one was to let people see from a CCTV point of view. So it's like a third person. This was what they saw. And this installation was at Singapore Art Museum last year. It's been exhibited a few times before. But I think the most elaborate one was for a Singapore Art Museum. I have a video of what people went through. So you can see this is what they saw. I had five cameras. It would switch every five minutes. It was at first like switching every one minute, but people were too confused. So five minutes would be better. So this is a quick version. Then there was a second method where I changed people's perspective. But this time it involved two friends where both of them I swapped their vision. It sounds very simple. Just swapping their vision. I see what you see and you see what. But it is actually very disorienting. Because you turn your head but you realize that it doesn't affect what you see. But it messes up the other guy. So in the end you have to really cooperate with one another. And I wasn't there. But one of the gallery sitters told me, because this was there for three months. I'm surprised my equipment survived. But this was there for three months. And people were telling me there were quarrels. Husband and wife were like pissed off with each other after. So I'm really sorry for that. But hey, and then there was the last one. And this one I call the lizard vision. Because you know VR, right? The stereoscopic VR you have different cameras. Two cameras that look straight to mimic what you see. But I did something different where I have the goggles. The goggles actually show the same image on both sides. But I decided that was not cool enough. I wanted to make them have two different images so that I can mimic the VR-ness. So I bought two and combined them into one. I just opened it up and decided that hey, it's actually pretty easy to solder together. So I soldered it up and taped it up like this. It looks like a mess now. So I put them at the front to mimic VR. Then when people put it on they thought hey, this is like a digital real life. Then that was just to test whether it worked. So it worked as a VR goggle for real life. Then my intention was to split the cameras apart so that they look in both directions. Like how lizards see. So you can see in this thing that I'm holding the camera. One of them is facing here, the other one is facing that side. So this was to mimic what animals with this type of vision see. I put this on. I thought it was going to be really disorienting. Yes, it was. But after half an hour, I was okay with it already. So I adapted to this kind of vision. So do.sg, that's my website. See more of my works at this website. Funny story about when I purchased this domain. This was about three years ago. When I got this, I was so surprised that it existed for my purchase. I was like what? Nobody else bought it. So within the next week, I bought 56 other one-word.sg domains. And engineers.sg, I missed that one now. I bought all these domains so they all belong to me. And what I did with them was I put them on webart.sg to let anybody adopt them for free and do whatever they want. Because I didn't want to be just squatting on them and doing nothing. So at the end of the 2013, I had 20 websites of people's creativity and I wanted to show them some place. So I had some connections in the art world since I already stepped into the art world and people are showing me already. I went around galleries. Hey, do you want to show my project? And then they were like, this is great, but nobody would buy it. And they need to pay rent, right? The physical gallery. So in the end, me being, I know coding. So I decided, hey, I have all this virtual space, right? And I decided to make a multiplayer gallery where people can log in. And I have gallery.sg. So I decided to adopt it myself. And I made a gallery where people came in and they adopt a male-female character and they walk around and look at the art from the websites that were made from the domains that I bought. So this was from the opening. The most viewer was at the opening. After that, I was pretty much dead already. And after this project, this was 2013 already, I went on to further gallery.sg. to a second oak before that. I have, in relation to VR, for that particular show, I had VR enabled. So it worked with the Oculus Rift and anybody could go in with the option. It was really fun to see my creation in virtual reality. But nobody came in with the VR option. So I guess it's not there yet because nobody has the equipment. So the next project I made, I just excluded it because it was additional. It was on the web. It was on the web. People needed to download the game. So I just excluded the feature altogether so that I can have less megabytes for people to download. And for the next show, I worked with a curator, Steven. He's there. I've known him for a long time. A funny story is that I met him about nine years ago. And then he was going around selling this software, game making software. And back then, I wasn't into gaming yet, into programming yet. So he was selling this software and I was just helping him do the illustration. I was into art. Then nine years later, I decided to... he became a curator and I decided to work together with him again. So this show is ongoing. So if you go to the gallery, this is the show that you'll be seeing. These projects, if you are wondering, these are all black hole projects because I put in money, I put in effort. There's no money gained for me. It's just like really I'm just doing it for the fun of it and I'm really lucky that I do not have to worry about finances, I'm good there. Because with my photography, with my art, just money comes in from various places. So I'm really lucky to be able to do that and do stuff that I want to do. So after all these projects, suddenly I got a call from the Supreme Court. It's like, oh, all this radical stuff that I'm doing is finally catching up to me. I'm like, hey, Eugene, is this Eugene we're calling from the Supreme Court? They were really serious. So I was like, oh, shit. Is it my downloaded movies or something? I confessed everything. But hey, no, actually we want to work with you to do a virtual gallery. You know the old Supreme Court building, right? It's going to be the new National Gallery. They wanted to preserve that as the old Supreme Court, like historically, but they couldn't do that in a physical space so they wanted to engage somebody with the skills to do that. So they called me. They was like, oh, okay. So I went down to the Supreme Court for a meeting and I've been going down there every other month. So they wanted a project that was on the Apple iPhone and Android. And at that point, I've never done an Apple or Android app. So on the phone, I was like, so you want an Apple and Android app? So I thought for a while and I told them, okay, because I knew theoretically how to do it but I've never actually done it. But today it's already on the Android and Apple Store if you know what to look for. Oh, Supreme Court. It's still in the beta phase. And this is screenshots of the inside switch. Although I am a 3D modeler, I recognize that there are other people who are better than me and since I quoted them a huge budget, I had to hire other people who were better. So 3D modeling, I hired someone else. And also for sound, my sound guy is here, Jeremy. He is the go-to guy for sound for games. So if you want to talk to him, he's here. So after getting... it was really funny to be paid for something like that because I've always been doing projects like this and just expecting nothing. I just do it for the fun of it. And so far they have paid me 60% of everything I asked for and I've been rolling in money already. So it comes to another point in my life where suddenly my family decides, hey, actually, you're getting some money, right? Why don't you pay the bills? And then they'll say, hey, you're the one who is staying at home all the time because I don't have a full-time job. I just do this. I just do me full-time. And then at home. So I'm like, okay, okay, why not? And then I saw the bills. It was crazy. It was a crazy amount. So I told them, okay, now nobody use ACON. And then they just laughed at me like it was the funniest thing and continued turning on the ACON. And then I decided, this is not cool because when I have to pay for something, I decide that I want to reduce it because I'm a very minimalist guy even when people come to my room at home, right? They think, oh, you have such a huge room but it's actually because I get rid of everything I don't need. So I'll just like throw easily throw away anything like gifts from people that I don't use and sitting there for two years, gone. That kind of thing. And I'm very organized. So my code, when I code my games, it's also very organized. So I decided that I want to solve this problem where we're paying so much for electricity bills. This comes my next project which I want to, which I'm very interested in because suddenly I have to pay for bills. Solar power. Because the place that I stay, actually in Singapore, the rest of Singapore is like full of sun. And whenever I get to my car, it's so hot, right? Someone needs to harness their energy. Why not my, why not me to reduce my power bill? So I've been talking to several solar power people getting to know how it works. And I have a habit of jumping different genres like photography, then suddenly doing games and so on. Now this is the next one that I'm going to jump to. So in October, I will be going to, going to a factory in China to work with some solar panel people and let's see what we can come up with because so far solar panels has been, it's very expensive to install and you only see like the returns after like four years of paying bills. So that is not my idea of saving. So I want to go there and see how it works and then do something inexpensive so that we can empower people like me and you to reduce your power bills. And this is really like the source to, I mean reduce the overall, overall cost of living. And the cost of living is really crazy these days. Like I have a story, I was in New York early this month and then I was driving from Washington to Boston but I got tired so I decided to rest in New York. I've been to New York before so I didn't really want to get out that night but when I was going to New York I was stopped by the police because in every state, right, you can turn right on rate except New York City and I did not know that. So I turned right on rate, I just happily turned right on rate and then there was a police car right behind me and then he's like, oh, give me a break. I told him, come on, give me a break. I'm new here but nope, he just gave me a ticket. So 200, I think it was 200 US dollars. So I was in the hotel, I was furious like, what? I decided to, and I was early in New York so I decided to okay, I must get my money's worth. I looked around on Meetup and then I saw this Meetup where it was gallery hopping. I was like, okay, gallery hopping, let's go to that to at least get some inspiration in return for giving the police 200 dollars, right? So I went to the meetup and apparently it was a gallery opening night for several galleries and gallery opening night means free wine. I was knocking it back like a champion and then we were hopping several galleries and at the fourth gallery I was already so wasted and then there was this group of guys who were hitting on me and then I was like, I'm straight but I'm really okay with gay people. I am LGBT supporter and then they were hitting, they were, at first they were okay. They were like, hey, the friendly gestures then after that they were touching my backside trying to kiss me and then, oh man, this is getting too weird and I was super wasted already so I decided, cannot, I run away and then being super wasted and running is not a good idea so I ran around the block, it was all cool I was like, okay, they don't know where I am already and then the moment I stopped I was like, oh, I need to sit down because I'm tired, sit down and then I was vomiting all over the place already and then people walking by were like, oh, shit and then I think almost immediately there was this couple who I didn't see because my eyes were closed came to my aid, like, hey, are you okay? and then after a while they said, okay, we need to call him an ambulance, then I was protesting I was like, no, no, no but I think they just heard rubbish from me because I was vomiting and everything then the ambulance came and I woke up in the hospital the next day and I took this picture so, yeah, it was like a regular night people get drunk, it's normal so I got out, I wasn't even in a ward I was in the corridor on one of those pushable beds then I went, they said, okay, please go to the counter before you leave, you can leave now but please go to the counter and then they asked for a bill this was the amount crazy, right? For an ambulance, right? so I truly believe that energy would lower the cost of living so, thank you very much