Yuen Chee Wai

Date of Birth: 23/04/1975
NRIC no: S7513336G
Contact no: (Home) +65 6441 3253
(Mobile) +65 9858 4311
Address: 3 Marine Terrace, #21-284, Singapore 440003
E-mail: cw@ferretlabs.com

Highest Obtained Level of Education

Bachelor’s Degree (Merit) in Arts and Social Sciences from National University of Singapore.
Majoring in English Language and Economics.

Areas of Interest/Speciality

Graphic Design in print and web, Sound Art, Visual Arts.

Past Working Experience

1999 – 2001: J Walter Thompson - Copywriter
2001 – 2002 : TheatreWorks (Singapore) Ltd. - Resident Designer
2002 – present : Ferret Design Labs - Creative Director

Current and upcoming projects

Resident artist (Film, sound and design) with Spell#7 for the festival Year of Living Digitally.
Strategies, monthly experimental music event at The Substation.
Performing sound artist in Experimental music festival at The Substation in November 2003.

Some selected projects

March 2003 pulse VERSION installation
TheatreWorks Black Box
As video artist for the installation in collaboration with Low Kee Hong (Concept) and George Chua (sound)

July 2003 Strategies vol.1
The Blue Room, The Substation
Monthly experimental music event conceived and organized by George Chua
First installment featuring solo laptop sets from Yuen Chee Wai, George Chua and Evan Tan

November 2002 Da Vinci Project
TheatreWorks (Singapore) Ltd
One of 8 participants of 72-hour sleep depravation workshop.
Managed and brought in Norwegian sound artists Jazzkammer, Sir Dupermann and Alexander Rishaug.

July – December 2001 Research and Script Writer for Channel News Asia series Two Hearts.

June 2001 Last Night in Sin
Spell#7
Sound Artist for performance soundtrack

February 2001 Organised and managed the start of Pan Sonic’s world tour in Singapore.

September 2000 Talent for Survival
Short Film for Advanced Film Production Course
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Sound Design for Film Music

February - June 2000 Scripted and sound designed radio ads for Lipton and Singapore Civil Defence Force.

1998 – 2000 Guitarist for local band The Trip.
Featured in BigO singles club 5.