Gad Tan

Blog

What I've been up to lately. Occasionally, I also write.


Opening up an old HDD

Earlier this year my Macbook Air finally decided to roll over and die (multiple major failures, logicboard, SSD etc.). As these things go, one might decide to take ...

An Introduction to Interactive Media

It's hard to imagine how insightful sitting in front of a class talking and typing code can get. But teaching at NAFA has been incredibly refreshing both for ...

GIFFEST at Gillman Barracks

I'll be exhibiting my work at Block 7 Gillman Barracks from the 5th to the 11th of October 2017. I've selected 2 geometric pieces from my body of animated art to ...

Light to Night Festival 2017

As part of the 2017 Light to Night Festival, our friends from Sydney, S1T2 and Amigo & Amigo got in touch with the Pettycache boys and I to ...

TDS Workshop 4: UX Matters

If you’re here, you were probably at my workshop held in collaboration with the National Arts Council, NOISE Singapore, and The Design Society on User Experience (UX). Th...

An Inconvenient Question

Update: This article was originally published on 23 September 2015 and updated on 5 May 2017. As of 16 January 2017, it turns out that the "AI" portion of thegrid isn't really &...

Interview with HAYSTAKT

A couple of months ago Joel Leong from HAYSTAKT interviewed me about the conceptual, design, and philosophical ideas that drove the development of the State of Buildings project. ...

Syinc.org FORK4

I presented the State of Buildings, one of my side projects, at Syinc.org's FORK session—a sharing of neat side-projects; particularly ones that make our world a li...

Orita Sinclair Skills Assembly 2

You're probably here because you were at Orita Sinclair's Skills Assembly 2 - Designing For The Web workshop. Thank you to everyone who attended the session, the turnout was ...