Brandon Tay (b. 1981, Singapore) is a Singapore-born, Shanghai-based artist working across sculpture, moving image, and metafictional worldbuilding. His practice explores how myth, technology, and historical knowledge become entangled through interfaces, infrastructures, and symbolic forms. Drawing on sources that range from scientific revelation and occult traditions to computational logics and vernacular media, he builds works that frame reality as recursive, unstable, and continually rewritten.

Thematically he creates environments that blur the line between system and symbol, archaeology and speculation. Lore runs through the work as its own material: titles, codices, and indexes function less as labels than as extensions of the objects and images themselves, asking to be read as much as looked at or encountered.  Recurring across the work is a question of agency: what it means for a system, a symbol, or a body to act, and where the line between the animate and the machinic actually falls.

Tay has exhibited individually and collaboratively at platforms including the Singapore Biennale, transmediale, and the National Communication Museum (Melbourne), among others.

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