MARK CHAVEZ (USA, SG)

Mark is an award-winning animator, artist, educator and entrepreneur who has developed systems and techniques for animation in many different media, including laser light at LaserMedia Inc., on Symbolics systems in broadcast television at Tokyo Broadcasting System (1990), and PlayStation games at Acclaim Entertainment (1994). Recruited by DreamWorks SKG (1995), he worked on visual effects for a number of their fully animated films. At the original Rhythm and Hues Studios in Playa Vista (2002), Mark worked on visual effects for numerous big-budget, award-winning live-action films. Animation industry veteran and founding faculty at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media’s Digital Animation area, Mark set up an animation research think-tank funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in Singapore and the Media Development Authority of Singapore. He has several award-winning animated short films that have screened at numerous international film festivals. Mark artistic practice strives to utilize digital multimedia techniques to tag visual meaning to tangible, recognizable ideas. He explores computer animation and emotive-abstraction, matching design to emotions, as based on previous academic research in audio-driven motion and real-time animation design at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. His work currently attempts to shape a design sense of a live, anthropomorphic world view to a contemporary scientific view. He exhibits his artwork as interactive, immersive fields, short films, and print

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