Spotlight on Arts – Memory, Media, and Creative Disruption with Jas Singh
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What happens when art becomes a conversation rather than a statement? In this episode of Spotlight on Arts, John Coster and Rob Watson sit down with digital artist and performer Jas Singh to explore his unconventional approach to creativity, identity, and media.
Jas’s work blurs the lines between history, activism, and personal reflection. His 1984 exhibition at Phoenix used TV installations and archival imagery to interrogate memory, conflict, and media narratives. With carefully curated visual fragments—news clips, adverts, and cultural references—his work invites audiences to engage with history in a visceral, immersive way. But he isn’t interested in simply retelling the past—he wants to know how we process it, how we remember, and how it shapes us.
His latest collaborations, including the Computer Lab exhibition, have seen him reinterpret digital archives, breathing new life into past media. His remixing of early Citizen’s Eye films shows how material from 2008 can be recontextualised to speak to today’s world, proving that nothing in media is ever truly fixed—it’s always shifting, always open to reinterpretation.
Beyond installations and digital art, Jas performs under the persona Sabotage, where he fuses sound, visuals, and live interaction. Masked in a balaclava, he uses audio-visual techniques to respond to audience energy in real-time, crafting an experience that’s part performance, part social experiment. For Jas, creativity is both a tool for self-exploration and a way of challenging how people engage with media in an age of endless scrolling.
Join the conversation as we discuss art, memory, digital culture, and the unpredictable ways media influences our lives.
