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METAL_UPA is a London-based Singaporean artist materialising the presence of digital residue and the intangible into spatial choreography. She creates mechanical dance rituals with data networks, sound and atmosphere, chasing the threads of immaterial bodies and the invisible infrastructures of the internet.
Her work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Copeland Gallery, London Festival of Architecture, and KIKK Festival.
She holds a Master of Architecture in Design for Performance and Interaction from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
Contact: kimverlyn@metalupa.xyz / Instagram: @metal_upa
exhibitions and panels
⎯2026
Asian Futura Ambient AV set, in collaboration with COOKED.wav, Meanwhile Easter Festival, Gaffe
⎯2025
Internet Checkpoints, BIT ROT with Phreaking Collective, Copeland Gallery
Field Guide for Oddkin, Nature KwenTour by ESEA Green Lions, Museum of the Home
Audiovisual set with Holy Tongue, specctra 003, Vespers
Audiovisual set with Half East Collective, the waiting room N16
Ambient Sauna AV set with DJ Stella Zheng, Sauna Social Club
Blue MV, BYOB Currents, Tusitala, Singapore
Energy Systems, SOFTER, The Art House at Acrylicize, London
⎯2024
Sonic Hues, Ars Electronica, Austria
Ambedo Field, KIKK Festival, Belgium
Ambedo Field, London Festival of Architecture: Bartlett in Situ, London
Your Spectrum, SOFTER, London
Let’s Glitch Nature Worldbuilding Tech Panel, Garden of Tomorrow Festival, London
memory, point, cells, Crossroads: Random Access Memory, To New Entities, Digital Billboard, Singapore Art Week
⎯2023
Imperfectly Perfect World of AI, GOFY x GIF Fest, National Design Centre Singapore
Five Phases, GOFY For Art's Sake, Singapore