Henry Tan

Henry, member of FREAK Lab Thailand, metaPhorest Japan, and research fellow at CGSB, NYUAD, Henry explores the boundaries between life and simulation. He investigates how emerging technologies like synthetic biology, mixed reality, brain stimulation, and artificial intelligence blur the lines between the real and the simulated. His work delves into how life adapts and negotiates with a constantly changing environment, shaped by factors like climate change, geopolitics, and geoeconomics. Henry uses sleep as a prism to understand and investigate life, society, culture, and technology. He creates installations, performances, songs, and architecture for people to rest and reimagine their perceptions through sleep and dreams.
His past projects include: 24hr Sleep Experiment: Hibernation into the mycelium world 2023, The Lantern 2023, Artist residency at The Sociability of Sleeps 2021-2023, Semi-conductor Dream 2023, Young Eel 2019.
His upcoming projects include: 1. Pillars of Creation, 2. Sleep Is A Little Rest, Death Is A Little Growth, 3. How to Explain Sleep to a Robot Cock?

Source: Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong