Participating Artists: Callista Jo Saputra, Chen Xinyue, Ke Zhixuan, Ko Jiin, Li Quanyi, Liu Zheng Leo, Nair Julia Ann Ehlert, Ranade Rudradutt Soumitra, Sari Filip, Tothova Michaela, Wang Zilin, Yang Yanmeng, Zhang Jiamin, Zhao Honglin, Zhuo Lianyao, Ariel Willy Saragi, Baey Sin Ee-Giselle, Chuah Chun Ying, Hoe Jian Wei, Kimberly Rose Balutcopo Bristol, Lim Sin Xuan, Metzger Noah, Ngoh Ye Xin, Jayne, Pang Madison, Rachel Sau Ching Hui, Shahma Abdulla, Sng Xi Yu Felicia, Syakirah Nasha Binte Hamzah, Tan Yu Yan Cheerie.

The ocean connects everything, yet for most of us it remains distant, abstract, or invisible. The Liquid Commons brings together new works by students of NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media, developed across two courses exploring artificial intelligence as a creative medium: the undergraduate DM2012 Explorations of AI Generative Art and the postgraduate AP7055 Art in the Age of Creative Machine.

Working with images and video, the students drew inspiration from ocean science and from the ocean exploration work of OceanX — its imagery, its writings, and the underwater technologies (submersibles, ROVs, and research instruments) that extend human perception into the deep. Ideas such as environmental DNA, deep-sea ecologies, and the life of a research vessel ran through the studio conversations.

The students were invited to work not as illustrators of science, but as artists translating it. Rather than explaining data or depicting the sea realistically, each work reaches toward how the ocean might feel, move, accumulate time, or exist beyond human perception. The pieces engage with flow, emergence, scale, invisibility, uncertainty, and the slippage between machine and sense.

The screening unfolds in conjunction with the CDSA (City Digital Skin Art) Festival and a Connecting Classes exchange with the Universität der Künste Berlin, where students will present and discuss their work with peers internationally over the coming months. The Liquid Commons is a prelude to that longer conversation — the first public surfacing of an ongoing inquiry into how AI tools, ocean imaginaries, and largeThe ocean connects everything, yet for most of us it remains distant, abstract, or invisible. The Liquid Commons brings together new works by students of NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media, developed across two courses exploring artificial intelligence as a creative medium: the undergraduate DM2012 Explorations of AI Generative Art and the postgraduate AP7055 Art in the Age of Creative Machine.

Working with images and video, the students drew inspiration from ocean science and from the ocean exploration work of OceanX — its imagery, its writings, and the underwater technologies (submersibles, ROVs, and research instruments) that extend human perception into the deep. Ideas such as environmental DNA, deep-sea ecologies, and the life of a research vessel ran through the studio conversations.

The students were invited to work not as illustrators of science, but as artists translating it. Rather than explaining data or depicting the sea realistically, each work reaches toward how the ocean might feel, move, accumulate time, or exist beyond human perception. The pieces engage with flow, emergence, scale, invisibility, uncertainty, and the slippage between machine and sense.

The screening unfolds in conjunction with the CDSA (City Digital Skin Art) Festival and a Connecting Classes exchange with the Universität der Künste Berlin, where students will present and discuss their work with peers internationally over the coming months. The Liquid Commons is a prelude to that longer conversation — the first public surfacing of an ongoing inquiry into how AI tools, ocean imaginaries, and large-scale public screens might be brought into dialogue.