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Johann Yamin’s projects have taken shape as essays, moving image installations, and text-based videogames, alongside curatorial work and varied forms of support. His writing and research focus on emerging media, digital cultures, and histories of technology. He was previously Curatorial & Research Resident at the Singapore Art Museum in 2021, and a 2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow at Eyebeam, New York for co-organising the online project, Pulau Something.
Selected exhibitions and projects
2025 | | on paper, Singapore Art Week
2023 Another Space: Beta Test, Another Department, Singapore
2023 School of Alternate Internets (in collaboration with Feelers), Potato Productions, Singapore
2023 Open Systems Broadcasts, Singapore Art Museum
2021–22 Present Realms, Singapore Art Museum
2020–21 Viscous Fairy Grottoes: Arcades Project, soft/WALL/studs, Singapore
2020 Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future (with Pulau Something co-organisers), Eyebeam, New York
2019 EATEN: A Capsule Museum for Future Possible Past Beings, Art After Dark, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2019 A Weekend Affair, Fairy Point Chalet, Singapore
2019 Sim Lim Square Art Residency, Singapore Art Week
Selected writings
2023 Yamin, Johann and Alex Mitchell, “Excavating Amnesia: A Media Archaeology of Early Internet Art from Singapore,” Southeast of Now 7, no. 2 (October 2023): 47–78.
2023 Yamin, Johann and Samantha Yap, “Flesh Coded and Performed: An Interview with Margaret Tan,” in Hothouse’s Mindspace series
2022 “Several Branching Paths on a Little Server in Singapore” in Vulture Magazine, Issue 28: Fluid Futures
2022 “Introduction” in IN SUSPENSION (Singapore, Hothouse: 2022)
2021 “Animal Crossing While Sobbing on a Friday Night: Towards Infrastructures of Pleasure and Plight” in Singapore Art Museum Residencies e-Journal
2020 “Uncursing Cotton” with Jimmy Ong in Perspectives Magazine, National Gallery Singapore
2019 “Illusions Expanding: The Gaming Worlds of Lawrence Lek” in Vulture Magazine, Issue 24: Human
2019 “Gaming Systems: Several Looping Actions Around Sim Lim Square” in Sim Lim Square Art Residency Catalogue
2019 “Jimmy Ong × Han Chung” and “ila × Xiou Ann” for OH! PASSPORT
2017 “Trash Talk” in Altars for Four Silly Planet by Marcus Yee
Press
2023 “The Archive is a Series of Systems: 7 Questions with Johann Yamin & Morgan Sammut” in Palah 파랗 Light Lab Blog
2022 “INTER–MISSION: Sim Lim Square Art Residency” in The Singapore Mall Generation: History, Imagination, Community, ed. Liew Kai Khiun (Singapore, Marshall Cavendish: 2022)
2022 “Local Artist Johann Yamin Takes Inspiration from Video Games (他从打游戏打出艺术灵感？)” in NUYOU, March 2022 [English text]
2022 “Singapore Art Museum’s new exhibitions at Tanjong Pagar Distripark” in Plural Art Mag, 13 January 2022.
2021 “At Home with Art, Together” in Singapore Art Museum Blog
2021 “Pilot Programme for SAM Residencies” with Singapore Art Museum
2019 “Johann Yamin on Regional Media Histories, Mapping the Underbelly of Digital Landscapes and Questioning Systems of Power” in Object Lessons Space, Issue 09/2019
2019 “Proof of Work: Art in Sim Lim Square” by Adeline Setiawan in SO-FAR, 17 January 2019