Karin G. Oen

Karin G. Oen is an art historian and curator based in Singapore where she is Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Head of Art History at NTU's School of Humanities. 

She is most interested in transdisciplinary and transnational art practices that resist classification, and in examining modes of writing about, displaying, and collecting art in diverse cultural contexts. Her work is characterized by attention to historiographies and genealogies, institutional power structures, and a broader project of balancing the global, the local while making space for non-canonical art histories, Recently, she was co-editor with Ute Meta Bauer and Tan Boon Hui of the 2022 book SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia. She previously served as a curator of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco where her exhibition projects included teamLab: Continuity (2021), Haroon Mirza: The Night Journey (2018), and Koki Tanaka: Potters and Poets (2016). She received her BA from Stanford, MA from Christie's New York, and PhD in the history, theory, and criticism of art and architecture from MIT.  

Teru Miyake

Teru Miyake is an associate professor in the philosophy program at NTU's School of Humanities. His research focuses on trying to understand the growth of scientific knowledge in the wake of criticisms raised against traditional notions of scientific progress by such philosophers as Thomas Kuhn, mainly through studying the history of sciences such as seismology, celestial mechanics, and physics. Miyake has a BS in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology, MA in Philosophy from Tufts University, and a PhD in philosophy from Standford University, He has received a Singapore Academic Research Fund Tier 1 grant for his research on the history of seismology. he has also published numerous articles in such journals as Philosophy of Science and Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 

Vaishnavi Chandramouli

Vaishnavi Chandramouli is a Research Associate at NTU's Lee Kong Chian School of Medecine. 

She has been using molecular methods such as PCR for a range of applications including wildlife forensics (field based), rapid infectious disease diagnostics for low resource settings (lab based) and zebrafish transgenesis for neuro-microbiome studies. She is passionate about making science enjoyable and accessible to the general public. In 2023, she initiated a project to bring molecular biology and microbiology tools to a variety of lay audiences in Singapore, and was a recipient of the NISTH INnovation and TRansfornation for Outstanding ECRs (INTRO-ECR) Grant for that project.