WELCOME to the Cloud Cryptid Friendship Society! As a new member, you’re joining a small but growing group of devoted friends, working tirelessly to protect and befriend our local Cloud Cryptid population.

What is a Cloud Cryptid?
Our skies, seas and streets are full of these mysterious but loveable creatures. As consumers of the Internet’s noise and detritus, Cloud Cryptids are a keystone species in our Internet ecosystem, with populations clustering around physical communications infrastructure. Their existence long denied by authorities, Cloud Cryptids have been observed for decades and pose no visible threat to humans.

Our Mission
The Singapore Chapter of the Cloud Cryptid Friendship Society is embarking on the first comprehensive census of Cloud Cryptids on the island. In the wake of recent Internet outages, we need your help to connect with and catalogue our local Cloud Cryptid population, and ensure their continued survival.

The online performance will be followed by a conversation with SAM curator Joella Kiu. This session is held in conjunction with the series Skill Futures.

About the artist

Feelers is a research lab focused on the intersections of art and technology. Our projects are invitations to think critically and empathetically about our world; and to build a community that learns and works together. Feelers is a bid for another world to come into being. Glimpses of it are found in how we sustain ourselves, how we choose to listen instead of turn away, and how we question paradigms of acceleration and extraction. While art and technology form key fields of research, they continually lead us back to one another, which is where our real work takes place.

About Skill Futures

In a time when the physical and digital are blurred, what skills do we need to understand and critically shape our hybrid realities? Artists are now being asked to invest in digital skills more than ever: to "upskill" and pursue "personal development," to prepare to emerge on the other side of COVID equipped for a future whose material and digital realities will be even more intertwined. But what does it mean to become "smarter"? To what ends are new technical skills being pursued? Skill Futures is a digital commissioning platform of the Singapore Art Museum, which features performances, workshops, and experimental lectures. It elaborates on the new forms of "intelligence" that emerges from different ways of reading the screen as a speculative medium of the future. These programmes may take the form of talks, discussions, workshops, or performative commissions led by SAM curators.   Click here to find out more about Skill Futures in our blog article.