Vignesh Sundaresan, aka @metakovan, is a blockchain technologist, exploring the extended and 'alternative’ possibilities of this emerging technology

Joined June 2014
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Vignesh Sundaresan, Founder Director of Padimai Art & Tech Studio, joins Kathleen Ditzig and Lim Wenhui for a panel at National Gallery Singapore exploring AI, creativity, authorship, and the future of artistic practice. Moderated by Usha Chandradas as part of The Insider Series.
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Padimai featured in @LampoonMagazine, reframing digital art as shared experience through Your view matter (2022/2025) by Olafur Eliasson and Vignesh Sundaresan’s vision of a new digital commons. lampoonmagazine.com/the-futu…
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Padimai launches its YouTube channel with a first film in Vignesh Sundaresan’s words, featuring Your View Matters by Olafur Eliasson. Exhibition extended until 13 June. youtu.be/pTrom-fohqI?si=1umA… via @YouTube
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Your view matter (2022/2025) by Olafur Eliasson has been extended until 13 June 2026 at Padimai Art and Tech Studio, Singapore. Step inside a VR artwork where perception, movement, and presence shape the experience—because every view matters.
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Mark Rappolt Editor-in-Chief, ArtReview, reflects on Padimai as a space that speaks the language of today, moving beyond painting and sculpture to engage digital technologies, bridging digital and embodied experience, and reaching audiences beyond traditional museum models.
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Your view matter, inviting each participant into an immersive personal experience, where perception is not fixed but continuously shaped by one’s movement and presence. The experience does not end with the headset—it unfolds through conversation & shared presence in the gallery.
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“As the title says, Your View Matters—the way you move constitutes the artwork. You put on the headset, and you are inside the work. It makes the invisible visible.” — Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson’s Your view matter (2022/2025), VR artwork exhibited at Padimai Art & Tech Studio. Open till 31st March 2026.
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Founder @vigsun, in conversation with Kathleen Ditzig at SAW 2026, traced Padimai’s roots in blockchain culture, cyberpunk, and early NFT. He reimagines blockchain as an archival tool, positioning Padimai as a space for “on-chain residencies” and new digital commons.
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Pat Pataranutaporn’s AI & I lecture explored how AI is reshaping human identity, behaviour, and society. Drawing from MIT Media Lab projects like Deep Truth, digital twins, and Future You, he framed AI as augmentation—not replacement.
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Our inaugural exhibition, Your view matter (2022/2025) by Olafur Eliasson, invites each visitor to become a co-producer of the work through perception and presence. On view at Padimai Art and Tech Studio until 31 March 2026.
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I am happy to share the opening of Padimai Art and Tech Studio, Singapore and its first exhibition, by my dear friend Olafur Eliasson. The inaugural show features Your View Matters (2022/2025), a VR artwork, the exhibition will be open to the public until 31 March 2026. The need for a physical space—one that exists in public, where art can be encountered through presence—had been a pressing need for me. While digital spaces allow for movement and access, it is the physical space that enables mediation, engagement, and shared experiences. This is where conversations unfold, where materials, bodies, and ideas meet. And therefore the founding of Padimai Art and Tech Studio. ‘Padimai’ is a Tamil word that, in a philosophical sense, speaks of becoming—of manifesting an idea. The name reflects the intention for the gallery: a space where fluid ideas become physical experiences, where art becomes tangible, visible, and open to audiences.
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The saint, the song, and the social revolution by Abhirami Girija Sriram (@quote_hanger) published in the current issue of @frontline_india, gives a nuanced description of Anbenum Peruveli. Pleased to share the article with everyone! frontline.thehindu.com/arts-…
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Inaugurating the Tamil Font Studio Vignesh Sundaresan detailed the potential of blockchain technologies in building a sustainable digital archive. @muthunedumaran in his inaugural address in his inaugural speech, discussed the opportunities in Tamil Typography. @vigsun
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Tamil Calligraphy & Font Making Workshop The engaging workshop was attended by Visual Arts and Design students. The Tamil Font Studio, 2024-26 is conceived by the @RMRL19 in collaboration & with the support of @onemai_fdn. @vigsun @muthunedumaran @ThariqueAzeez
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Tamil Calligraphy & Font Making Workshop Workshop highlights: @muthunedumaran, Typographer & Language Tech Developer, shared basics of making Tamil fonts with Glyphs, a font editor software. @RMRL19 @vigsun @muthunedumaran @ThariqueAzeez
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Tamil Calligraphy & Font Making Workshop Workshop highlights: @ThariqueAzeez, Tamil Calligrapher, showcased the elegance of hand-written texts & beauty of Tamil Calligraphy. @RMRL19 @vigsun @muthunedumaran @ThariqueAzeez
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RT @metakovan: Robert Alice’s (@robertalice_21) ON NFTS is an effort in compiling the early evolution of digital art as NFTs, it is a compr…
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Roja Muthiah Research Library (#rmrlchennai) and @onemai_fdn are inaugurating the RMRL TAMIL FONT STUDIO on 28th Feb 2024 for Tamil type design, calligraphy, and typography. Tamil Font Studio will focus on developing fonts/ typefaces scientifically and setting gold standards in Tamil font making. We will be producing a range of fonts both from the archives and freshly created ones. We are organising an International Seminar on the 29th Feb 2024. Experts in the field of typography from Malaysia, Sri Lanka and India will present their technical know-how. I am particularly excited about the possibilities working with a digitally native object like fonts offer from a blockchain perspective, including reimagining the management, documentation and archiving of the font making process and the distribution and accessibility of the fonts themselves. This international seminar will address current needs, issues in Tamil fonts faced by type designers and educators. This includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, industry professionals, and research scholars.
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