Significant
Research Achievements or Awards 2021-24
Ina Conradi Chavez (A/P)
School of Art, Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University
2020-2023 MOE AcRF Tier 1 Award RG43/20
PI Conradi Ina (ADM NTU) Co -Pi Rainer Helmut Dumke, (SPMC NTU)
• Silver Winner in Experiential -Art & Culture for the Inaugural Collision Awards
• 2023 Best in Show SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival (CAF)
• Award Winner for Professional Animation at the Raw Science Film Festival 2023, Los Angeles, US, Oct 2023. The event was initially made possible through the support of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science and Entertainment Exchange.
• Best Experimental Animation Silver at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology (PFCAT), August 2023.
• Best Short at the 14th New Media Festival, Los Angeles, June 2023.
• Winner of Best Animation at the 23rd Beverly Hills Film Festival, Hollywood, California, US, April 2023.
• Winner of Best Film Score at the Santa Barbara International Short Fest, Santa Barbara, California, US, Feb 2023.
• Ars Electronica 2023 Prix Ars Electronica Animation Festival, Linz, Austria, Sep 2023. One of the world's most renowned festivals for Art, Technology, and Society.
2023 Best in Show SIGGRAPH Asia
Computer Animation Festival (CAF)
Moirai, Thread of Life
An artistic exploration of quantum mechanics
• Date: 12-15 December 2023
• Venue: SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, the 16th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia.
• Organizers: Herman Van Eyken (Computer Animation Festival Co -Chair, Director of Griffith Film School), Rob Coleman (Computer Animation Festival Co -Chair, Creative Director of Industrial Light & Magic), Joe Letteri (Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Wētā FX).
• Details: A world-wide collection of the year ’s best computer animation works; showcase has been selected from an impressive pool of 382 submissions contributed by 595 artists from 14 countries.
• Partners: Nvidia, Wētā FX, Industrial Light & Magic, Science Research at META.
Chanel News Asia Feature: Video Link
Stills from Moirai Thread of Life
Stills from Moirai-Thread of Life, (05:38), Animation, 2023
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/754280813
Film Web Site: https://moirai.mediaartnexus.com/
Full Video: https://vimeo.com/754117077
Film Synopsis
Set in the distant future, an astronaut searching for untouched lands finds herself gravitating towards a mysterious force in a strange cave. The viewer follows her through a journey of discovery and understanding as she gets pulled into another dimension, her 'self' entwined and connected with the larger fabric of the universe. Drawing inspiration from the Moirai, the film symbolically represents the quantum realm. Like the white-robed incarnations of destiny in ancient mythology, the interconnected threads of quantum phenomena weave the destinies of all beings together.
Awards
The inaugural Collision Awards Honoring Excellence in Animation and Motion Design
• Inaugural winners include BUCK, Crunchroll, Golden Wolf, Hornet, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, Partizan, Sony Pictures Animation, The Daily Show, Pixar and Walt Disney Studios. This is an incredible achievement. Collision Awards received exceptional entries from more than 30 countries, and the winners represent the most innovative stories being told across the globe.
• Jury Members include Sarah Cox (Executive Creative Director/Aardman), Marge Dean (Head of Skybound Animation Studio and President/Women in Animation), Ronnie del Carmen (Codirector & writer of Pixar ’s Inside Out), Maureen Fan (Chief Executive Officer/Baobab Studios), Jinko Gotoh (Producer Finding Nemo), Jay Grandin (Co -Founder and Executive Creative Director/Giant Ant), Julie Lockhart (Co -Founder and President of Production/Locksmith Animation), Andrew Millstein (Co -Head/Annapurna Animation), Mike Moloney (Founder and Executive Creative Director/Art&Graft) Gilles Monteil (Animation Expert/Ubisoft) and Ramsey Naito (President/ramount Animation and President/Nickelodeon Animation) amongst others
• Link https://rb.gy/dlpnn1
Best Cinematography - Animation - Nocturne
Golden State Film Festival, February 2024
TCL Chinese Theatres, Hollywood, California
Golden State
This edition of the Golden State Film Festival features a rich schedule including of 5 of our films: Mitla | Underworld, Quantum Logos, Nocturne on Feb 23rd, and Chrysalis, and Moira Thread of Life on Feb 27th.
Award Winner, Raw Science Film Festival 2023
Professional Animation, 26 October 2023.
Raw Science Film Festival (RSFF) is an annual event that brings together people across science, technology, entertainment and media to showcase best in class film from around the world.
The event was initially made possible through the support of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science and Entertainment Exchange.
President of Jury Lynda Obst, the producer of "Interstellar" and "Contact", Dr. Kip Thorne, Paula Froehle, Lyn Goldfarb, Dr. Elliott Haimoff, Paul Hynek, and many more.
The event was initially made possible through the support of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science and Entertainment Exchange. Link
JURY AWARD
Campus Exhibition Ars Electronica
Festival 2023, Linz, Europe
Nanyang Technological University
Butterfly ’s Dreams:
The New Aesthetic of AI in Artistic Practice
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
School of Art Design and Media
Ars Electronica is the Europe ’s largest festival for art, technology & society and since 1979 has been driving creativity and shaping the future of media art. The theme of 2023 festival, Who Owns the Truth? raised a multitude of meaningful questions, creating a collective as well as diverse perspectives of the discussions related to the core topics of our time: AI and Machine Learning, truth and ownership, interpretive authority, and sovereignty. https://ars.electronica.art/who - owns - thetruth/en/butterflys - dreams/ Link to Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ 884296564
Ars Electronica Festival 2023 – who owns the truth?. Ars Electronica Festival 2023 - Who owns the truth? (2023, September 15).
Festival 2023, Event Title: Data, Bodies, Space Linz,
Austria 6-11 September
Festival Theme: Who Owns The Truth
Film Moirai Thread of Life is one of 30 projects selected from the nearly 1,120 international submissions. A collaboration between Ars Electronica and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria Hagenberg Campus, Ars Electronica Animation Festival featured a broad spectrum of techniques: AI-generated images, photogrammetry, cinematic deepfakes, scientific and game simulations, real-time graphics and many others.
AE festival is one of the world’s most important media art festivals.1,542 artists, scientists, developers, designers, and activists from 88 countries took part in the festival, Plus, 338 partners and sponsors 650 exhibits and held 575 events, more than 88,000 visits.
Jury: Lev Manovich, Philippe Pasquier, Helen Starr, Mimi Son, Nora O’ Murchú
Nocturne, premier at the Deep Space 8K Ars Electronica
Center Theatre Linz, Austria
Nocturne, (21:35)
Animation, Immersive Performance, 2021
Deep Space 8k Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria
Award Winner London International Web & Shorts Film Festival
June 2021
Nocturne is an artwork that recognizes the new post-global pandemic world while also acknowledging that other challenges lie ahead. The large-scale, immersive installation uses interactive and audio -reactive visuals with emotiveabstraction animation, mapping emotions, and design with the real-time flow of a dance performance. It creates a tribute to ancient rites of spring by appealing to imagery, music and motion that recall the past, and signal hope for the future
Credits: Directed and
animated by Mark Chavez, Produced by Ina Conradi, Choreography by Victoria Primus, Music by Tate Egon Chavez
Doors to Hidden Worlds the Power of Visualization in Science, Media, and Art Vendl, Alfred, Martina Fröschl , Edition Angewandte. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Published: October 4, 2023
The Serpent and the Dragonfly: Into the Unknown.” Essay. Ina Conradi and Mark Chavez
40 Years of Science Visualisation
This book brings together a wide range of contributions on visualization in science, media, and art. Renowned experts and associates of the Science Visualization Lab at the University of Applied Arts Vienna present examples of outstanding and innovative visualization projects and provide insight into their working methods. The book follows a variety of approaches to expanding perception and rendering the invisible visible.
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Our goal of Quantum Logos was to develop a visual approach that can be intuitively understood and that illuminates Quantum Mechanics
Why this?
Ars Electronica Premier
Deep Space 8K immersive projection
For more visit
https://www.mediaartnexus.co
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• The Art/Sci Approach
• Our solutions
• Questions raised
QUANTUM LOGOS
Interactive Interlude I invite the audience to enter the Quantum world. The room transforms into a pool of quantum energy where the front screen and floor transitions into an interactive state.
QUANTUM LOGOS
2023 Winner of the IDCA Awards
International Design Communication Awards
Category: Most Sustainable (Gold)
Date: 27 November 2023
Project: MeshMinds 3.0 Art x Tech for Good, Singapore
A/P Conradi curated Entangled Futures – Cross Cultural Media Art Exchange for the Slarge-scale media façade at Ten Square Landmark of Good in ingapore, in collaboration with the University of Ansbach. Premiering in Singapore in November 2022, "Entangled Futures" received major recognition:
Involvement: MeshMinds 3.0 Art x Tech for Good exhibition held at Singapore's ArtScience Museum, featuring events such as "AI Art Jam @ Cinema" and exhibit screening "Films for People and Planet" in collaboration with Ina Conradi (A/P)
NTU ADM and her students from Media Art Nexus Class
Organizer: AGENDA was founded in Paris in 1995 and relocated to Sydney in 2018 primary objective is to disseminate the best communication and fundraising practices of cultural institutions worldwide
Gold Award from the
The Entangled Futures which premiered in Singapore Nov 2022 has received the prestigious 2023 Gold Award from the IDOOH Institute for Digital Out of Home Media for its outstanding environmental impact, achieved through a collaboration with Greenpeace. The award-winning campaign, which includes captivating video documentation of the artistic installations showcased on Singapore's iconic Ten Square, was now being featured across all participating IDOOH networks in Germany airports, train stations, and city lights Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, and Nuremberg over period of 2 weeks and during Easter Holidays to an estimated audience of over a million customers.
https://www.mediaartnexus.com/?p=5828
Leipzig, DCL7 Johannisplatz N„he 1 100m vor Querstraįe
Berlin
The Third CDSA - City Digital Skin Art Festival International Media Art and Creativity Competition 2024
BEYOND THE SCREENS
The "BEYOND THE SCREENS" competition, part of the City Digital Skin Art Festival (CDSA) 2024, highlights innovative uses of large-scale urban screens and media facades to visualize environmental themes and make sustainability issues tangible in public spaces.
The project is Initiated by Prof. 阮悦来 Yuelai Ruan (Deputy Director of the Public Art Department, Cultural Media, China Art Academy), cocurated with Susa Popp (Artistic Director, Public Art Lab Berlin, and Connecting Cities Network, Berlin, Germany), and Ina Conradi A/P (NTU School of Art, Design and Media, Singapore). CDSA
CDSAawards. (n.d.). https://www.xiusheji.com/contests/8246.html
