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Hallam Stevens

Hallam Stevens is an historian of technology at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of Life out of sequence: a data-driven history of bioinformatics (Chicago 2013), Biotechnology and Society: an introduction (Chicago 2016), and the co-editor of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome (Duke 2015). He serves as the associate director of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity.

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The Substation and the Control of the Arts in Singapore

T. Sasitharan, former Artistic Director of The Substation (1996-2000) talks about its controversial eviction and impending closure, and broader problems with how the arts are controlled, funded, and censored in Singapore (to the country's impoverishment).
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