E.X.O. Cultura Santiago Chile Presentation
E.X.O. Cultura – Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi Presentation
EXO-Culture event, part of the 2021 Summer School of the Pinacoteca of the University of Concepción. Santiago, Chile. 16-17 January 2021.
Media Art Nexus @ Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
MAN is conceived with a vision to showcase a wide range of experimental new genres and media art, including digital art, algorithmic and generative art, interactive art, music/sound visualization, virtual art, video games, and interdisciplinary collaborations in art, design, science, medicine and engineering technologies. The diverse media wall, measuring 15 x 2 meters, is located NTU Art & Heritage Museum promotes a keen awareness and strong interest in art and heritage on campus.
Being part of the university, the Museum has the advantage of working with schools from the various disciplines and the artist community and initiates interdisciplinary research and collaborations in exhibitions and programs. The Museum has an important educational role and engages the NTU Community by providing opportunities for participation in special art projects. The Museum also brings art to the Community through an active Public Art program. Opened in 2008 and listed under the National Heritage Board’s (Singapore) Approved Museum Scheme, the Museum has a Southeast Asia and contemporary art collection and exhibits mostly public spaces on campus for the maximum impact in outreach.
Emotion Study
Brain Wave Detection
Using several audio-reactive real-time artworks designed to affect emotion and working with professors from Computer Engineering and Psychology, we measure the effect of abstract movies’ on the viewer.
Quantum LOGOS (vision serpent)
Directed by Mark Chavez
Quantum LOGOS (vision serpent) is an immersive reactive film that uses Mesoamerican culture as inspiration for design ideas used to explore quantum mechanics basics.
This project uses abstract animated imagery to metaphorically represent the quantum world. I use this approach because of the parallels that are evident in the art and philosophy of Mesoamerica to the quantum mechanics vision of the nature of reality. While I focus on Young’s Double Slit Experiment,1 how light behaves when passed through double slits, as part of this project research, I found additional inspiration in the Observer Effect.2These two phenomena are core issues relevant to this artwork that I use to explain quantum mechanics. I wanted to present new ideas through the ancient artistic interpretation of natural wonders to attest to their intuitive assumptions’ timeless beauty and similarity to current notions. By using designs that are rooted in ideas embraced by Mesoamerican thought, I’ve created a series of visual metaphors that explore, discover, and communicate the counterintuitive and contradictory beauty of nature.
FILM FESTIVALS
Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, (BCIFF), Paris, France, May 2021 Certificate of Excellence,
Latino FEEDBACK Film Festival October 31, 2020
Flixze Film Festival October 2, 2020, Finalist
Official Latino Film and Arts Festival September 12, 2020
International Fine Arts Film Festival September 7, 2020
Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival, Aug 2020, Award Winner Best Animation,
Monthly Indie Shorts August 27, 2020
Synergy Film Festival, New York, 20 August 2020, Best Experimental Film,
Mosaic World Film Festival July 20, 2020
The Flight Deck Film Festival June 25, 2020, Finalist
New York Animation Film Awards (NYAFA) June 8, 2020, Semi-Finalist
Raw Science Film Festival, Los Angeles, June 5, 2020, Industry Award Winner Best Visual Effects, Oscar-qualifying festival, Awarding organization The National Academy of Sciences & The Science and Entertainment Exchange
Chrysalis
Directed by Ina Conradi Chavez, co-Directed by Mark Chavez
A transmedia research project that was planned as one part game, one part animated series.
Chrysalis is my fifth short film. The idea for Chrysalis started in 2014. I wanted to follow up the abstract and surreal structure of my earlier film, Elysian Fields (2013), and continue developing the story about life and death, the theme of perseverance, metamorphosis, and immorality. Going through emotionally tough times personally, I wanted Chrysalis to instil hope and to reflect on many topics such as life’s purpose, the meaning of the universe, the human desire to explore, the inner workings of the mind, consciousness studies, seeking enlightenment, understanding metaphysical, handling emotional pain and defeat. However, the metaphysical quickly expanded to evil, dehumanization, totalitarian governments, and environmental disasters.
The production started in 2015 March in tight collaboration with co-director and animation veteran Mark Chavez, Giant Monster, an animation, visual arts, and game company. Joshua Tan, founder of Crave FX, the best VFX studio in Singapore. Work on the film was conducted parallel to their hectic production commitment to other commercial projects over a period of a year and a half. The lead animator and artist in CraveFX were Yi Hui, one of the most talented and inspiring young artists. The sounds and music were made by Jeremy Goh, founder and his team in IMBA Interactive….I hope to continue to work with them in the future!
Elysian Fields
Directed by Ina Conradi Chavez
Synopsis: Inspired by the sacrifices made by generations preceding us and expanding upon an exploration of World War II, Elysian Fields fuses fantastical and historical into a surreal reconfiguration of the present.
Elysian Fields is a surreal movie about World War II. In Memoriam Egon Conradi 1925-2011
Assistant Directors DAVIER YOON | JOSHUA TAN, Animation & Stereography DAVIER YOON | JOSHUA TAN
Music & Sound Design JEREMY GOH, Animation Assistance IVAN YEW, Title Design JANE CHANG
ADM IT & Technical Support THUMMANAPALLI NAGARAJU | TEO CHENG LIM | YEONG CHEN HUINTU, School of Art Design and Media.
on/off 100101010 Symposium
ELMAN 2018 University Project
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ELMAN University Project 2018 and 2019
Type of Event: Urban Media Façade / Public Art Exhibition taking place at Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, Hamburg and @ Media Art Nexus Singapore NTUDescription: ELMAN is a creative art exchange between two public media displays – the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall (Elphi) Hamburg and the Media Art Nexus (MAN) NTU Singapore. Students from the University of Applied Sciences Europe, Department Art & Design, Film + Motion Design Class, Campus Hamburg, and the NTU, ADM have created artworks for both large scales site-specific media platforms. All results premiered at two venues and two continents.
WAVES: Crosscurrents of Art, Technology and Environment
Waves 2020 Digital Art Intervention Experimental Film & Animation, Artists interviews, Music Performance.
Sunday, 17 May 2020 from 19:00 -21:00 SGD Time (UTC + 8) 12:00-14:00 UK Time (UTC + 1)
WAVES is a digital art live stream curated by Digital Arts students at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA) – The University of Kent in collaboration with NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) interdisciplinary DA 9012 Media Art Nexus class.
Supernatural – Media Art Nexus NTU
Crepuscular Rays of the Moon, SG:IO Tokyo 2017
Crepuscular Rays of the Moon | experimental animation | duration 1h and 30 min | Audio Reactive Real Time Animation 4K/8K | Derivative Touch Designer LED screen 15 m by 2 m
Crepuscular Rays of the Moon | Experimental Animation | Media Art Nexus 2017 from Media Art Nexus
Before Lies EterNERDY
Collaboration MAN Singapore and Fraunhofer MEVIS, Ars Electronica Deep Space 2018 from Media Art Nexus
The Adventures of Barty and the Pirate
Directed by Mark Chavez
Barty Run is a comical mobile game designed to make you focus while having fun protecting Barty from the Pirate and his henchmen. Barty Run is a side-scrolling endless run game based on the short animated film “The Adventures of Barty and the Pirate”.
Help Barty to escape Pirate’s chase by clearing the way while feeding him bananas!
Used AI powered lipsync.
The Pirate, AKA Billy the Pirate, is a cantankerous fellow who wants constant attention.
Barty, an easy-going lad, comes to know the Pirate through admiration of the pirate lifestyle.
FILM FESTIVALS
Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival, August 31, 2020, Award Winner
Anim!Arte – International Animation Festival of Brazil, October 8, 2014
Aakruti-My Creation International Film Festival, September 30, 2014
9th International Children’s Film Festival, Bangladesh December 15, 2014
International Family Film Festival, September 26, 2014
Athens ANIMFEST, March 18, 2015
Accolade Global Film Competition, June 16, 2014
10th Bangalore Shorts Film Festival-21, June 12, 2014
Urban Mediamakers Festival (UMF), September 6, 2014
UAT Digital Video Festival, October 14, 2014
San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, August 15, 2014
