Trained exclusively on web-parsed sambal recipes, a custom LLM reframes AI's probabilistic nature as an analogue to agak-agak—the intuitive logic of Southeast Asian cooking. Printing endless variations via a receipt printer, the work critically contrasts industrial standardization with the tacit entropy of heritage practices. Created in Entangled Agencies, a showcase as part of Singapore Art Week 2026
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developed/performed for Ars Electronica 2025 Flood the Zone with Courage Manifesto (thrown before every performance from 4.9.25 18:00 onwards): https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eNmUgrLc2uvDkgplrAWCEGAtYAgC7Ms/view
Digital Meditations (2024)
Projection on figurine, with web camera feed of figurine on monitor Created by Jian Wei and Zeng Ziqi Made with TouchDesigner
Orpheus (2023)
5 min, Music Video Made with Stable Diffusion
Voicemails (2023)
5 mins, Short Film Mental Health Film Festival 2023 - Best Impact Award (Open Category) Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2023 - Official Selection
GIRLS (2020)
15 mins, Short Film National Youth Film Awards 2021 - Best Actress, Best Editing Producer, Cinematography, Music - Jian Wei Director, Writer, Art Direction - Tamara Tan Editor, Production Manager - Jacob Tan
About
Jian Wei is a media artist from Singapore. His practice surrounds the philosophy of 'hyperreality' and seeks to create a reality that is even more realistic than it is.
