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𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (@sonicofficer)

9 May 2026 (SAT) |  5:55–6:30pm | 📍 @squarestreetgallery

The system is the last process running. Join us for the final system check and deactivation of HEX STATE SERVER, conducted by Sonic Officer’s (@sonicofficer) Manager, Andio (@andiosound).

INTERFACE level: System reboot via CRT monitor, experimental sequencers, and glitchy synthesis.

CODE level: Repair surveying in searchlight mode. The Officer excavates the PHANTOM INDEX timeline via a superimposed cypher, live-coding visual variants of letters, symbols, and alternate histories.

Drawing on Leibniz’s binary systems, the I Ching, and computational histories, the performance moves between human interface and digital substrate.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (@sonicofficer)

9 May 2026 (SAT) |  5:55–6:30pm | 📍 @squarestreetgallery

The system is the last process running. Join us for the final system check and deactivation of HEX STATE SERVER, conducted by Sonic Officer’s (@sonicofficer) Manager, Andio (@andiosound).

INTERFACE level: System reboot via CRT monitor, experimental sequencers, and glitchy synthesis.

CODE level: Repair surveying in searchlight mode. The Officer excavates the PHANTOM INDEX timeline via a superimposed cypher, live-coding visual variants of letters, symbols, and alternate histories.

Drawing on Leibniz’s binary systems, the I Ching, and computational histories, the performance moves between human interface and digital substrate.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (@sonicofficer)

9 May 2026 (SAT) |  5:55–6:30pm | 📍 @squarestreetgallery

The system is the last process running. Join us for the final system check and deactivation of HEX STATE SERVER, conducted by Sonic Officer’s (@sonicofficer) Manager, Andio (@andiosound).

INTERFACE level: System reboot via CRT monitor, experimental sequencers, and glitchy synthesis.

CODE level: Repair surveying in searchlight mode. The Officer excavates the PHANTOM INDEX timeline via a superimposed cypher, live-coding visual variants of letters, symbols, and alternate histories.

Drawing on Leibniz’s binary systems, the I Ching, and computational histories, the performance moves between human interface and digital substrate.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (@sonicofficer)

9 May 2026 (SAT) |  5:55–6:30pm | 📍 @squarestreetgallery

The system is the last process running. Join us for the final system check and deactivation of HEX STATE SERVER, conducted by Sonic Officer’s (@sonicofficer) Manager, Andio (@andiosound).

INTERFACE level: System reboot via CRT monitor, experimental sequencers, and glitchy synthesis.

CODE level: Repair surveying in searchlight mode. The Officer excavates the PHANTOM INDEX timeline via a superimposed cypher, live-coding visual variants of letters, symbols, and alternate histories.

Drawing on Leibniz’s binary systems, the I Ching, and computational histories, the performance moves between human interface and digital substrate.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (@sonicofficer)

9 May 2026 (SAT) |  5:55–6:30pm | 📍 @squarestreetgallery

The system is the last process running. Join us for the final system check and deactivation of HEX STATE SERVER, conducted by Sonic Officer’s (@sonicofficer) Manager, Andio (@andiosound).

INTERFACE level: System reboot via CRT monitor, experimental sequencers, and glitchy synthesis.

CODE level: Repair surveying in searchlight mode. The Officer excavates the PHANTOM INDEX timeline via a superimposed cypher, live-coding visual variants of letters, symbols, and alternate histories.

Drawing on Leibniz’s binary systems, the I Ching, and computational histories, the performance moves between human interface and digital substrate.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗿 (@sonicofficer)

9 May 2026 (SAT) |  5:55–6:30pm | 📍 @squarestreetgallery

The system is the last process running. Join us for the final system check and deactivation of HEX STATE SERVER, conducted by Sonic Officer’s (@sonicofficer) Manager, Andio (@andiosound).

INTERFACE level: System reboot via CRT monitor, experimental sequencers, and glitchy synthesis.

CODE level: Repair surveying in searchlight mode. The Officer excavates the PHANTOM INDEX timeline via a superimposed cypher, live-coding visual variants of letters, symbols, and alternate histories.

Drawing on Leibniz’s binary systems, the I Ching, and computational histories, the performance moves between human interface and digital substrate.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Last LAST week to see Brandon Tay’s ‘HEX STATE SERVER’

Drop by for tours with the curator @niche.stitution :
TODAY Sat 2 May 13:30/ 16:30
Fri 8 May 18:00/ 19:00
Sat 9 May 14:30/ 16:30

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

Website design and build for @brozm artwork HEX STATE SERVER developed as part of his Virtual Residency at @kulturlandsgemeinde . HEX STATE SERVER:EXEGESIS is a websitethat operates as an oracular interface for generating micro-fictions called "hex-states". Each Hex State offers either an omen of a possible future oran echo of an alternate present. These 64 states are produced through a system derived fromI Ching divination, where six units (broken or unbroken lines) are arranged into hexagrams to yield divinatory readings, adapted for the contemporary context. Each hex-state unfolds through a composite of moving image, text, and sound as well as the behaviors of the two “daemon” avatars which serve as divinatory guardians for the server itself.

In the traditional I Ching system, each hexagram already carries a canonical meaning. A custom typeface designed for the work, however, shifts the focus to how meaning is formed in another register by morphing between two states—hexagrams (divinatory symbols) and letters (linguistic symbols). By hovering over the text, users reveal latent meanings embedded within the site. Modular blocks form the site's underlying structure, fluidly resizing and stacking as content reveals or conceals itself according to the current state and user interaction.

HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by @darius_ou
Web Build and design by@okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

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нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

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Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

×

Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

×

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

ιη ιтѕ тσтαℓιту: 𝘗𝘏𝘈𝘕𝘛𝘖𝘔 𝘐𝘕𝘋𝘌𝘟 LARP Activation last month designed and facilitated by Bea Xu @_fei__fei_ for Brandon Tay's @brozm HEX STATE SERVER exhibition at @squarestreetgallery

Documentation by Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl with bonus group shot with first session gang (swipe to end) 🪄

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Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero theory proposed that the I Ching’s 64 hexagrams contain a mathematical formula for calculating the end of time: a threshold singularity where everything changes.

Step inside Brandon Tay’s HEX STATE SERVER exhibition for 𝘐𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, an hour-long live-action roleplay where participants become computational agents navigating a speculative timeline. Using memory, speculation, and techniques from transpersonal psychotherapy, the agents collectively decode historical patterns, negotiate with infrastructural Daemons, and calibrate forecasts in the wake of a possible Contingency Event.

Designed and facilitated by Bea Xu, this LARP treats the exhibition as a site-specific domain for embodied meaning-making. Appeal to contingency or recursion. Consult the oracle. Conspire with fate.

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Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professional @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
March 19 – May 2, 2026

Key visuals by @okkazze

NOW ON VIEW: ‘Sangkalan’ by Brandon Tay makes its first iteration at Woodlands Regional Library in Singapore till 31 May.

‘Sangkalan’ unfolds as a fictional island imagined by the artist. Through sculptures, textiles, and texts, the exhibition presents fragments of a lost culture shaped by its close relationship with nature. The installation unfolds as a growing archive, introducing visitors to the island’s ecosystem through three organisms: a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, they form the basis of how the inhabitants of Sangkalan understand their world.

From April to October, ‘Brandon Tay: Sangkalan’ will travel to Singapore National Library Board locations in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, and Punggol. With each presentation, the archive grows, gradually revealing the imagined history of the lost culture of Sangkalan. Through this fictional archive, the exhibition invites us to think differently about how we gather and process information through digital technologies.

Woodlands Regional Library, 15 Apr - 31 May 2026
Tampines Regional Library, 3 Jun - 19 Jul 2026
Jurong Regional Library, 22 Jul - 6 Sep 2026
Punggol Regional Library, 9 Sep - 25 Oct 2026

Admission is free.

#BrandonTay #SingaporeArtMuseum #Sangkalan

Installation views, Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, Woodlands Regional Library, Singapore, 2026. Photo by Jonathan Tan.

NOW ON VIEW: ‘Sangkalan’ by Brandon Tay makes its first iteration at Woodlands Regional Library in Singapore till 31 May.

‘Sangkalan’ unfolds as a fictional island imagined by the artist. Through sculptures, textiles, and texts, the exhibition presents fragments of a lost culture shaped by its close relationship with nature. The installation unfolds as a growing archive, introducing visitors to the island’s ecosystem through three organisms: a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, they form the basis of how the inhabitants of Sangkalan understand their world.

From April to October, ‘Brandon Tay: Sangkalan’ will travel to Singapore National Library Board locations in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, and Punggol. With each presentation, the archive grows, gradually revealing the imagined history of the lost culture of Sangkalan. Through this fictional archive, the exhibition invites us to think differently about how we gather and process information through digital technologies.

Woodlands Regional Library, 15 Apr - 31 May 2026
Tampines Regional Library, 3 Jun - 19 Jul 2026
Jurong Regional Library, 22 Jul - 6 Sep 2026
Punggol Regional Library, 9 Sep - 25 Oct 2026

Admission is free.

#BrandonTay #SingaporeArtMuseum #Sangkalan

Installation views, Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, Woodlands Regional Library, Singapore, 2026. Photo by Jonathan Tan.

NOW ON VIEW: ‘Sangkalan’ by Brandon Tay makes its first iteration at Woodlands Regional Library in Singapore till 31 May.

‘Sangkalan’ unfolds as a fictional island imagined by the artist. Through sculptures, textiles, and texts, the exhibition presents fragments of a lost culture shaped by its close relationship with nature. The installation unfolds as a growing archive, introducing visitors to the island’s ecosystem through three organisms: a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, they form the basis of how the inhabitants of Sangkalan understand their world.

From April to October, ‘Brandon Tay: Sangkalan’ will travel to Singapore National Library Board locations in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, and Punggol. With each presentation, the archive grows, gradually revealing the imagined history of the lost culture of Sangkalan. Through this fictional archive, the exhibition invites us to think differently about how we gather and process information through digital technologies.

Woodlands Regional Library, 15 Apr - 31 May 2026
Tampines Regional Library, 3 Jun - 19 Jul 2026
Jurong Regional Library, 22 Jul - 6 Sep 2026
Punggol Regional Library, 9 Sep - 25 Oct 2026

Admission is free.

#BrandonTay #SingaporeArtMuseum #Sangkalan

Installation views, Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, Woodlands Regional Library, Singapore, 2026. Photo by Jonathan Tan.

NOW ON VIEW: ‘Sangkalan’ by Brandon Tay makes its first iteration at Woodlands Regional Library in Singapore till 31 May.

‘Sangkalan’ unfolds as a fictional island imagined by the artist. Through sculptures, textiles, and texts, the exhibition presents fragments of a lost culture shaped by its close relationship with nature. The installation unfolds as a growing archive, introducing visitors to the island’s ecosystem through three organisms: a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, they form the basis of how the inhabitants of Sangkalan understand their world.

From April to October, ‘Brandon Tay: Sangkalan’ will travel to Singapore National Library Board locations in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, and Punggol. With each presentation, the archive grows, gradually revealing the imagined history of the lost culture of Sangkalan. Through this fictional archive, the exhibition invites us to think differently about how we gather and process information through digital technologies.

Woodlands Regional Library, 15 Apr - 31 May 2026
Tampines Regional Library, 3 Jun - 19 Jul 2026
Jurong Regional Library, 22 Jul - 6 Sep 2026
Punggol Regional Library, 9 Sep - 25 Oct 2026

Admission is free.

#BrandonTay #SingaporeArtMuseum #Sangkalan

Installation views, Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, Woodlands Regional Library, Singapore, 2026. Photo by Jonathan Tan.

NOW ON VIEW: ‘Sangkalan’ by Brandon Tay makes its first iteration at Woodlands Regional Library in Singapore till 31 May.

‘Sangkalan’ unfolds as a fictional island imagined by the artist. Through sculptures, textiles, and texts, the exhibition presents fragments of a lost culture shaped by its close relationship with nature. The installation unfolds as a growing archive, introducing visitors to the island’s ecosystem through three organisms: a fruit, an insect, and a bird. Together, they form the basis of how the inhabitants of Sangkalan understand their world.

From April to October, ‘Brandon Tay: Sangkalan’ will travel to Singapore National Library Board locations in Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, and Punggol. With each presentation, the archive grows, gradually revealing the imagined history of the lost culture of Sangkalan. Through this fictional archive, the exhibition invites us to think differently about how we gather and process information through digital technologies.

Woodlands Regional Library, 15 Apr - 31 May 2026
Tampines Regional Library, 3 Jun - 19 Jul 2026
Jurong Regional Library, 22 Jul - 6 Sep 2026
Punggol Regional Library, 9 Sep - 25 Oct 2026

Admission is free.

#BrandonTay #SingaporeArtMuseum #Sangkalan

Installation views, Brandon Tay: Sangkalan, Woodlands Regional Library, Singapore, 2026. Photo by Jonathan Tan.

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

A technology is any system that reliably stores and transmits information. By that definition, the Zauran bird is a technology. By that definition, so is the forest.

ZAURAN (thin call/quiet loop), 2026 — the aerial stratum of the Sangkalan ecological triad. The bird's flight paths repeat across generations. Its songs mutate in response to what the island is doing. The inheritance is the protocol; the loop is the record; the species is the ledger.
Sangkalan proposes that the architectures we now associate with distributed computation — consensus, replication, immutability through repetition — were never ours to invent. Ecosystems have been running them all along. Our machines are the latecomers, imitating a logic that was already in the air and in the trees.

On view at National Library Board libraries across Singapore — Woodlands, Tampines, Jurong, Punggol — April to October 2026.

Photography by @jonathantyl
Graphic Design by @punkturedfunktion
Illustration by @iguser_1097473449
Exhibition Design by @nojsta
Fabrication by @red_orchid_99
Curated by @duncanny_valley
Commissioned by @singaporeartmuseum

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

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[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

Custom variable font, visual identity and graphics designed for @brozm 's artwork HEX STATE SERVER. The typeface recasts the Yijing (I Ching) as a proto-computational system. Here, Chinese divination, specifically the hexagram system, operates as a proto-digital logic: a binary combinatoric structure (six broken - ‎- or unbroken — lines) that translates the world’s indeterminacy into readable, actionable states. This logic is inserted into the history of computation through the Unicode Standard, an encoding system that digitises the world’s writing systems by systematising linguistic indeterminacy into discrete units.

As a result, each glyph is derived through numerical affinities between the Yijing’s hexagram index (King Wen sequence, the oldest index) and the Unicode hexadecimal encodings of Latin characters (C0 + Basic Latin block)—constructed using the same binary units.

- ‎- —
[3] A circular King Wen Sequence index linked to Unicode's Basic Latin block: hexagrams to hexadecimals

[4] 'K' and 'Z' are the only letters in the Basic Latin block that coincide at Hexagram 15: ‘K’ = U+004B and ‘Z’ = U+005A, which reduce to (4+11) and (5+10) respectively. Notably, the King Wen sequence (文王卦序) that underpins this numerological mapping is attributed to King Wen ( 周文王) of the Zhou dynasty. The coincidence can be read as 'K'ing of 'Z'hou occupying the same register when interpreted in the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation.

[5] Vinyl application at the gallery, where letters are placed over their hexagram counterparts.

[10-13] UV-light activated vinyl texts in the space

Curated by @niche.stitution x @rafiabdullah.apt
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
Exhibition design: @amirulnbm
20 March – 2 May 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl
#graphicdesign #variablefont #iching

An ancient grammar of 64 states once compressed the world into tendencies: advancing, retreating, blocked, open. The same logic runs in every system that classifies before it acts. Name a state often enough and the state begins to behave. The reading becomes the environment.

Closes 2 May. Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong.

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Is putting something in a museum the same as keeping it alive?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ What parallelities are there to Nusantara – Noirantaras, Nooantaras, nonantaras and et ceteras?

kædæluwær§æk§§æk (A Xenographer’s Index) are 25 digitally woven forms, a digital painting and a legend within the fire-exit of Malay Heritage Center, Singapore.

Conceived with and alongside @brozm , Anonymous Network Unit, (fontype by) Runtuhh with architectural support and conversations with Aqil Akmal, the work proposes new forms that outgrew from the traditional, non-traditional and speculative Malay (non-malay, to its proximities and vernacular) architectural visual languages.

Deepest gratitude to @multikromatix and @tyshakhan for trusting us in the process, listening and allowing space for conversations, propositions and speculations on potential parallelities.

@malayheritage will be open on 25th April 2026, alongside many brilliant artists, works and artefacts.

Produced by cinotiUHD
Print and installation by Thomas, Lin, Tom and Xiaochun
Music by @cave_sex

𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑴 𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑿

A vinyl timeline mapping the I Ching as the world’s first binary modelling environment — a compressed abstraction of everything from state policy to personal fate, built on broken and unbroken lines. Six phases. Seven terminal conditions. Hidden captions, only legible under UV torches provided in the space, reframe each node in system language. The argument runs: we have always been inside a computational system. The hardware has simply been upgraded. The 64 world-states in the room are what happens when you run the archive live.

Graphic Design by Darius Ou @darius_ou

PHANTOM INDEX
2026
Vinyl wall installation
Dimensions variable

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl

𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑴 𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑿

A vinyl timeline mapping the I Ching as the world’s first binary modelling environment — a compressed abstraction of everything from state policy to personal fate, built on broken and unbroken lines. Six phases. Seven terminal conditions. Hidden captions, only legible under UV torches provided in the space, reframe each node in system language. The argument runs: we have always been inside a computational system. The hardware has simply been upgraded. The 64 world-states in the room are what happens when you run the archive live.

Graphic Design by Darius Ou @darius_ou

PHANTOM INDEX
2026
Vinyl wall installation
Dimensions variable

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl

𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑴 𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑿

A vinyl timeline mapping the I Ching as the world’s first binary modelling environment — a compressed abstraction of everything from state policy to personal fate, built on broken and unbroken lines. Six phases. Seven terminal conditions. Hidden captions, only legible under UV torches provided in the space, reframe each node in system language. The argument runs: we have always been inside a computational system. The hardware has simply been upgraded. The 64 world-states in the room are what happens when you run the archive live.

Graphic Design by Darius Ou @darius_ou

PHANTOM INDEX
2026
Vinyl wall installation
Dimensions variable

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl

𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑴 𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑿

A vinyl timeline mapping the I Ching as the world’s first binary modelling environment — a compressed abstraction of everything from state policy to personal fate, built on broken and unbroken lines. Six phases. Seven terminal conditions. Hidden captions, only legible under UV torches provided in the space, reframe each node in system language. The argument runs: we have always been inside a computational system. The hardware has simply been upgraded. The 64 world-states in the room are what happens when you run the archive live.

Graphic Design by Darius Ou @darius_ou

PHANTOM INDEX
2026
Vinyl wall installation
Dimensions variable

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl

𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑴 𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑿

A vinyl timeline mapping the I Ching as the world’s first binary modelling environment — a compressed abstraction of everything from state policy to personal fate, built on broken and unbroken lines. Six phases. Seven terminal conditions. Hidden captions, only legible under UV torches provided in the space, reframe each node in system language. The argument runs: we have always been inside a computational system. The hardware has simply been upgraded. The 64 world-states in the room are what happens when you run the archive live.

Graphic Design by Darius Ou @darius_ou

PHANTOM INDEX
2026
Vinyl wall installation
Dimensions variable

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl

𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑴 𝑰𝑵𝑫𝑬𝑿

A vinyl timeline mapping the I Ching as the world’s first binary modelling environment — a compressed abstraction of everything from state policy to personal fate, built on broken and unbroken lines. Six phases. Seven terminal conditions. Hidden captions, only legible under UV torches provided in the space, reframe each node in system language. The argument runs: we have always been inside a computational system. The hardware has simply been upgraded. The 64 world-states in the room are what happens when you run the archive live.

Graphic Design by Darius Ou @darius_ou

PHANTOM INDEX
2026
Vinyl wall installation
Dimensions variable

нєχ ѕтαтє ѕєяνєя
Brandon Tay @brozm
Curated by Institution of Niche & Rafi Abdullah @niche.stitution @rafiabdullah.apt
Exhibition design by Amirul Nazree @maatchaagreenteaa
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Music by YS @y_systems @l_professionel @born_slip_e
Presented by Square Street Gallery, in collaboration with Yeo Workshop @squarestreetgallery @yeoworkshop
20 March – 2 May, 2026

Photo credit: Jonathan Tan @jonathantyl

LAUNCHING: HEX STATE SERVER by Brandon Tay!

🌀🔮
Entdecke die erste Arbeit unserer Virtuellen Residenz 2026!
Das Online-Kunstwerk «Hex State Server» von Brandon Tay verbindet KI, Webdesign, Wahrsagung und jahrtausendealte Kosmologie. Ausgehend vom antiken chinesischen Orakelhandbuch Yìjīng und seinen 64 Hexagrammen generiert Tay 64 «Hex-States»: Mikro-Fiktionen, die sich in Video, Ton und Text entfalten und tagraumartige Zustände erzählen. So wie Gesellschaften seit Jahrtausenden das Yìjīng zur Deutung ihrer Lebenslagen nutzen, sind auch wir eingeladen, in dieser algorithmischen Reaktualisierung einer antiken Rechenlogik nach Sinn für unsere Gegenwart zu suchen.

🔮🌀
Discover the first work of our 2026 Virtual Residency!
The online artwork "Hex State Server" by Brandon Tay brings together AI, web design, divination, and millennia-old cosmology. Drawing on the ancient Chinese oracle manual Yìjīng and its 64 hexagrams, Tay generates 64 "hex-states": micro-fictions that unfold through video, sound, and text, narrating dreamlike states. Just as societies have used the Yìjīng for millennia to interpret their life circumstances, we too are invited to seek meaning for our present within this algorithmic reactualisation of an ancient computational logic.

🔗 Link in Bio!

🌀🌀
HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Web Development by OkOk Services @okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e
developed as part of the Virtual Residency of Kulturlandsgemeinde

#kulturlandsgemeinde #brandontay #virtuelleresidenz #virtualresidency

LAUNCHING: HEX STATE SERVER by Brandon Tay!

🌀🔮
Entdecke die erste Arbeit unserer Virtuellen Residenz 2026!
Das Online-Kunstwerk «Hex State Server» von Brandon Tay verbindet KI, Webdesign, Wahrsagung und jahrtausendealte Kosmologie. Ausgehend vom antiken chinesischen Orakelhandbuch Yìjīng und seinen 64 Hexagrammen generiert Tay 64 «Hex-States»: Mikro-Fiktionen, die sich in Video, Ton und Text entfalten und tagraumartige Zustände erzählen. So wie Gesellschaften seit Jahrtausenden das Yìjīng zur Deutung ihrer Lebenslagen nutzen, sind auch wir eingeladen, in dieser algorithmischen Reaktualisierung einer antiken Rechenlogik nach Sinn für unsere Gegenwart zu suchen.

🔮🌀
Discover the first work of our 2026 Virtual Residency!
The online artwork "Hex State Server" by Brandon Tay brings together AI, web design, divination, and millennia-old cosmology. Drawing on the ancient Chinese oracle manual Yìjīng and its 64 hexagrams, Tay generates 64 "hex-states": micro-fictions that unfold through video, sound, and text, narrating dreamlike states. Just as societies have used the Yìjīng for millennia to interpret their life circumstances, we too are invited to seek meaning for our present within this algorithmic reactualisation of an ancient computational logic.

🔗 Link in Bio!

🌀🌀
HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Web Development by OkOk Services @okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e
developed as part of the Virtual Residency of Kulturlandsgemeinde

#kulturlandsgemeinde #brandontay #virtuelleresidenz #virtualresidency

LAUNCHING: HEX STATE SERVER by Brandon Tay!

🌀🔮
Entdecke die erste Arbeit unserer Virtuellen Residenz 2026!
Das Online-Kunstwerk «Hex State Server» von Brandon Tay verbindet KI, Webdesign, Wahrsagung und jahrtausendealte Kosmologie. Ausgehend vom antiken chinesischen Orakelhandbuch Yìjīng und seinen 64 Hexagrammen generiert Tay 64 «Hex-States»: Mikro-Fiktionen, die sich in Video, Ton und Text entfalten und tagraumartige Zustände erzählen. So wie Gesellschaften seit Jahrtausenden das Yìjīng zur Deutung ihrer Lebenslagen nutzen, sind auch wir eingeladen, in dieser algorithmischen Reaktualisierung einer antiken Rechenlogik nach Sinn für unsere Gegenwart zu suchen.

🔮🌀
Discover the first work of our 2026 Virtual Residency!
The online artwork "Hex State Server" by Brandon Tay brings together AI, web design, divination, and millennia-old cosmology. Drawing on the ancient Chinese oracle manual Yìjīng and its 64 hexagrams, Tay generates 64 "hex-states": micro-fictions that unfold through video, sound, and text, narrating dreamlike states. Just as societies have used the Yìjīng for millennia to interpret their life circumstances, we too are invited to seek meaning for our present within this algorithmic reactualisation of an ancient computational logic.

🔗 Link in Bio!

🌀🌀
HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Web Development by OkOk Services @okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e
developed as part of the Virtual Residency of Kulturlandsgemeinde

#kulturlandsgemeinde #brandontay #virtuelleresidenz #virtualresidency

LAUNCHING: HEX STATE SERVER by Brandon Tay!

🌀🔮
Entdecke die erste Arbeit unserer Virtuellen Residenz 2026!
Das Online-Kunstwerk «Hex State Server» von Brandon Tay verbindet KI, Webdesign, Wahrsagung und jahrtausendealte Kosmologie. Ausgehend vom antiken chinesischen Orakelhandbuch Yìjīng und seinen 64 Hexagrammen generiert Tay 64 «Hex-States»: Mikro-Fiktionen, die sich in Video, Ton und Text entfalten und tagraumartige Zustände erzählen. So wie Gesellschaften seit Jahrtausenden das Yìjīng zur Deutung ihrer Lebenslagen nutzen, sind auch wir eingeladen, in dieser algorithmischen Reaktualisierung einer antiken Rechenlogik nach Sinn für unsere Gegenwart zu suchen.

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Discover the first work of our 2026 Virtual Residency!
The online artwork "Hex State Server" by Brandon Tay brings together AI, web design, divination, and millennia-old cosmology. Drawing on the ancient Chinese oracle manual Yìjīng and its 64 hexagrams, Tay generates 64 "hex-states": micro-fictions that unfold through video, sound, and text, narrating dreamlike states. Just as societies have used the Yìjīng for millennia to interpret their life circumstances, we too are invited to seek meaning for our present within this algorithmic reactualisation of an ancient computational logic.

🔗 Link in Bio!

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HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Web Development by OkOk Services @okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e
developed as part of the Virtual Residency of Kulturlandsgemeinde

#kulturlandsgemeinde #brandontay #virtuelleresidenz #virtualresidency

LAUNCHING: HEX STATE SERVER by Brandon Tay!

🌀🔮
Entdecke die erste Arbeit unserer Virtuellen Residenz 2026!
Das Online-Kunstwerk «Hex State Server» von Brandon Tay verbindet KI, Webdesign, Wahrsagung und jahrtausendealte Kosmologie. Ausgehend vom antiken chinesischen Orakelhandbuch Yìjīng und seinen 64 Hexagrammen generiert Tay 64 «Hex-States»: Mikro-Fiktionen, die sich in Video, Ton und Text entfalten und tagraumartige Zustände erzählen. So wie Gesellschaften seit Jahrtausenden das Yìjīng zur Deutung ihrer Lebenslagen nutzen, sind auch wir eingeladen, in dieser algorithmischen Reaktualisierung einer antiken Rechenlogik nach Sinn für unsere Gegenwart zu suchen.

🔮🌀
Discover the first work of our 2026 Virtual Residency!
The online artwork "Hex State Server" by Brandon Tay brings together AI, web design, divination, and millennia-old cosmology. Drawing on the ancient Chinese oracle manual Yìjīng and its 64 hexagrams, Tay generates 64 "hex-states": micro-fictions that unfold through video, sound, and text, narrating dreamlike states. Just as societies have used the Yìjīng for millennia to interpret their life circumstances, we too are invited to seek meaning for our present within this algorithmic reactualisation of an ancient computational logic.

🔗 Link in Bio!

🌀🌀
HEX STATE SERVER: EXEGESIS
By Brandon Tay @brozm
Graphic design by Darius Ou @darius_ou
Web Development by OkOk Services @okok.services
Music by YS @y_systems
@l_professionel @born_slip_e
developed as part of the Virtual Residency of Kulturlandsgemeinde

#kulturlandsgemeinde #brandontay #virtuelleresidenz #virtualresidency

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.

Experts say we’re living in a Chinese (or Asian) century. Due to growth in China, India, and ASEAN countries, Asian nations are set to dominate global politics, economics, and culture.

It’s tempting to agree, especially as someone who lives in Asia. But speak to young people here worried about narrowing opportunities or economic precarity, and you might find their anxieties about the future are similar to their Western counterparts.

Ironically, the idea that we’re living in the “Asian century” is (and was) most often touted by Westerners. D.C. think-tank types and journalists at The Economist often championed the idea in the 2010s, but read any cyberpunk text or the most popular philosophers in Silicon Valley, and the future we imagine is always “Asian.”

But at a post-internet art party in Hong Kong, some artists are questioning this narrative.

I spent some of art week hanging out with artist @brozm and curators @rafiabdulla.apt and @angelaliuuu (of the @niche.stitution), talking about accelerationism, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Land, and ideas of time in Daoist tradition. All of this comes together in “HEX STATE SERVER,” available to view at @squarestreetgallery until May 2nd.

There are widespread projections that the future is pre-determined—that one day, we will arrive at a global collapse, the Protestant Rapture, an AI singularity, or even a future where Asia reigns supreme. But for Brandon, Rafi, and Angela the future is never fixed, and what matters most is the world we want to create.