Experimental Animation

Experimental Animation

The permanent exhibition of experimental animation on Media Art Nexus consists of a series of 6 innovative pieces played in real-time daily.

The Rose, 2016, audio-reactive animation, 05:15, Derivative Touch Designer

Credits: Animation and Programming by Mark Chavez, Producer Ina Conradi, Music Claude Debussy- Clair de Lune by Peter Frankl, Piano, Vox recorded C1962, Software Platform Derivative Touch Designer.

https://vimeo.com/262683498

Created for a 15 x 2 meters LED video wall, The Rose explores pinscreen animation with audio-reactive animation and emotive expression. Duration 5 min and 15 sec.

The Rose was programmed as an animated pin-screen, and uses six different recordings of Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune, creating an audio-reactive painting. Animation by Mark Chavez
The Rose adapted for 19.2m by 12m LED screen at the NTU Singapore for the occasion of an international symposium and exhibition: On|Off 100101010 | Colliding and Surrendering: chaos and freedom where art and technologies meet.
Quantonium, 2016, animation, 10:00, Derivative Touch Designer

Quantonium is an audio reactive animation that plays with the idea of mechanical reflections on matter and space.

Credits: Animation and Programming by Mark Chavez, Produced by Ina Conradi, Music by Egon

8 by 1 https://vimeo.com/259612487
16 by 9 https://vimeo.com/262683920

Quantonium playing at Federation Square Melbourne 2018 September as a part of Urban Screen Production

Quantonium & The Rose, premiered at the Deep Space 8k, for the occasion of the Ars Electronica Festival 2016, “RADICAL ATOMS and the Alchemists of Our Time”, Linz, Austria, 8-12.09.2016

The Rose, Deep Space 8K Theater, 16m by 9m, Ars Electronica Festival 2016
I wish, 2016, animation, 04:31, Derivative Touch Designer

I wish uses Twitter and the search term “I wish”, to explore the intimacy of personal commentary through the poetics of social media phenomenon.

Credits: Animation and Programming by Mark Chavez, Produced by Ina Conradi, Music by Philip Tan

https://vimeo.com/219320055
Spheres Vision, 2016, animation, 04:31, Kinect and Derivative Touch Designer

This piece is an audio-reactive interactive animation that reflects the viewer with motion and colors.

Credits: Animation and Programming by Mark Chavez, Produced by Ina Conradi, Music by Philip Tan

https://vimeo.com/262680280
NTU Beat, 2016 experimental animation, 10:00, Derivative TD

Credits: Animation by Mark Chavez, Produced by Ina Conradi, Music by Philip Tan

EMOTE PROJECT 2017