【Online Artist Talk】
Surfing | Every Single Iris on the Internet (the first 100,000 images)
Date | Thursday,  May 21, 2026 · 20:00–21:30 PM (UTC+8)
Venue | Online

Speaker |  Anna RIDLER
Panelist | Clara Che Wei PEH
Moderator | Emily Hsiang-Yun HUANG
90min + Q&A"

Registration｜Please register on the Vanishing Acts exhibition page.
*​​​All the events will be conducted in English and Mandarin.

Introduction
Artists Anna RIDLER and Clara Che Wei PEH will connect live to surf together Every Single Iris on the Internet (the first 100,000 images) (2025).
Through this commented tour, they’ll discuss their overlapping creative practices, research methodologies, and how the work reflects their mutual investigations into data as a form of modern mythology, the speculative reimagining of historical and ecological futures, and the entangled systems of control that shape both human and nonhuman worlds.

Speaker |  Anna RIDLER
Anna RIDLER is an artist and researcher who works with systems of knowledge and how technologies are created in order to better understand the world. She is particularly interested in the natural world. Her process often involves working with collections of information or data, particularly data sets, to create new and unusual narratives. Her work has been exhibited widely at cultural institutions worldwide including Times Square, the Barbican Centre, Centre Pompidou, HeK Basel, The Photographers’ Gallery, the ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was listed as one of the nine “pioneering artists” exploring Al’s creative potential by Artnet and received an honorary mention in the 2019 Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for the category Al & Life Art.

Panelist | Clara Che Wei PEH
Clara Che Wei PEH is a curator and arts writer from Singapore. She is the founder of Common Protocol, dedicated to new media practices from Southeast Asia, and the initiator of Monday Chatroom, an itinerant discussion series on issues surrounding art and technology. Her curatorial projects have been realised with organisations such as The Institutum, ArtScience Museum, and DECK.
Previously, she was Public Programmes Curator at Asymmetry, Asia Collection Fellow at KADIST, Curator of Art Dubai Digital, and Adjunct Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts. She has contributed research and writing to platforms including the Asian Art Biennial Reader, ArtAsiaPacific, The Brooklyn Rail, Art and Market, among others. She currently serves on the International Selectors Committee for The Lumen Prize, and has been a nominator for the LG Guggenheim Award and an external reviewer for SIGGRAPH Asia.
You can find her on Instagram at @claralikesart.

Moderator | Emily Hsiang-Yun HUANG
Hsiang-Yun Huang is a researcher and visual artist from Taiwan. Her research interests focus on the relationship between body and technology from the perspective of postcolonialism, cyberfeminism, digital materialism and critical AI. Projects she has curated include Net.Open public program and www.counterarchive.commons at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, IMPAKT Festival-Our Terms, Our Conditions, Taipei Digital Art Festival-Fake It Real, and Embodied Interface. Her dance films often derived from her poetry on the vulnerability of (non-)human existence, with a focus on collective mourning and digital intimacy. She is supported by the Mondriaan Artist Start Grant(NL) and National Culture and Arts Foundation(TW). Her works have been exhibited at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinedance Festival at Eye Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Ars Electronica, Kikk Festival, and panke.gallery.  
https://linktr.ee/flyun

｜Other Notes｜The online link will be emailed to registrants on May 19.