Random Blends is the annual exhibition of the Communications and New Media (CNM) department, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. The 9th annual Random Blends 2017 was held at ArtScience Museum Singapore, themed *Interceptions* it was a creative forum for radical thinking about the dynamic role new media and communication play in the world today, where digital art
and culture fuses with community networks. Students of the Interactive Media Design Capstone Module were guided through the process of exhibiting works of students, alumni and faculty members from CNM. The showcase examines the ingenious ways practice-based interceptions have impact. Interceptions arises from an understanding of how provocative questions, communicated by the critical use of networks, can be raised by play and novel modes of social engagement. Featuring poetry, critical game art, augmented reality performance, data as an artistic medium, sequencing of bacteria in biologically inspired salon simulations, site specific transmissions, networked art forms, and social media activism.
