ARTISTIC DUO:
INA CONRADI (SG, USA) & MARK CHAVEZ (USA, SG)
Artistic duo Ina Conradi (US, SG) and Mark Chavez (US, SG), based in Singapore and Los Angeles, have collaborated on numerous art and new media projects for the last 20 years. They both hold a Master’s of Fine Arts Degree from UCLA. For their experimental animation, Ina and Mark are awarded the Hollywood Advanced Imaging Society’s 2018 Lumiere Award and 2017 Lumiere Award Europe Chapter. The artist duo has shown their work at the Ars Electronica Festival, most recently with 2021 Nocturne a large-scale, immersive installation that combines interactive and audio-reactive visuals with emotive-abstraction animation, and real-time flow of a dance performance. Their art-sci inspired immersive installation Quantum Logos (vision serpent) premiered for the 40th Anniversary of Ars Electronica Festival at the Deep Space 8k. The work, done in collaboration with science producers from Germany and Austria, was featured on the Austrian Academy of Sciences website of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, as well as the CERN Social Media Network OriginPhysics. The film has received VFX award from the 2020 Raw Science Film Festival Los Angeles. The project connecting digital medicine, arts and STEAM and done in collaboration with Fraunhofer MEVIS: Institute for Digital Medicine (DE) received the 2019 Raw Science Film Festival Award. Ina and Mark have exhibited and presented at the Fission International exhibition at the Guizhou Provincial Museum, China (2022), Beyond Festival ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Germany (2013-till present) Ars Electronica (2010 till present), UCLA Art|Sci Center+Lab 2018, Media Architecture Biennial Beijing 2018, Singapore Inside Out Tokyo 2017, Web 3D Art Gallery Brisbane 2017, PISAF Korea and Visualisation Matters 2017, Siggrpah Asia 2014, and ISEA among many others.
From 2016 to the present, Ina and Mark’s ongoing public art project Media Art Nexus (MAN) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, a 15 m by 2m LED urban media art display, has been supported by Singapore’s NTU Museum’s Campus Art Trail Initiative. This global curatorial and educational initiative has been connecting students, emerging and established artists and academics globally with the international cultural institutions such as UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab, Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall Hamburg Europe, University of Applied Sciences Europe Campus Hamburg, the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA)-University of Kent Canterbury UK, the Ceruleum School of Visual Arts, Lausanne Switzerland, Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional Musique Danse Théâtre at Reims, France, Melbourne based Urban Screen Productions (UTV), The Urban Media Academy Berlin, UNSW EPICentre (Expanded Perception & Interaction Centre), and Ars Electronica Deep Space. Media Art Nexus has been on the Council of Museums (ICOM) ‘s International Museum since 2020.
For more, please visit http://mediaartnexus.com/