Joel is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment, particularly with respect to sound and physical space. Professor Ong’s work explores the way objects and spaces can function as repositories of āfrozen soundā, and in elucidating these, he is interested in creating what systems theorist Jack Burnham (1968) refers to as āart (that) does not reside in material entities, but in relations between people and between people and the components of their environmentā. A serial collaborator, Ong is invested in the broader scope of Art-Science collaborations and is engaged constantly in the discourses and processes that facilitate viewing these two polemical disciplines on similar ground.
