Research Highlights

Nanyang Technological University Singapore 2007-till present

Here are the highlights of my research with the emphasize on the last seven years and main creative outcomes, such as stereoscopic/ experimental animation, paintings, art content for immersive 3D stereo displays and art installations, awards and impact.

Festival/theatrical screenings

Experimental 3D animated short films were directed and visually developed for Digital Cinema 3D stereo projection screening venues such as among others state of the art Hollywood Landmark Theatres and the legendary Hollywood Chinese Theatres. Parallel to production of stereoscopic film focus was on how to create creative art content for one-of-a-kind visualization environments, such as the following venues:

  • Media Art Nexus NTU Singapore exhibition space, large scale 15m by 2m LED Urban media screen, is one of the NTU Art and Heritage Museum’s various Art on Campus initiatives – an initiative which started in 2014 with the aim of “bringing art to people”. The series of public art installations are part of NTU Museum Art Trail on Campus featuring a collection that is unique in Singapore. Many of which were created by NTU Community as well as invitations to local and international art.
  • Ars Electronica Centre, (Linz Austria Europe), prestigious stereo venue 8k Deep Space. Works were showcased in Deep Space as a part of the most reputable festival of digital arts in the world- AE Festival Origin in 2011, Festival Total Recall in 2013,  [1] Festival 2016, “RADICAL ATOMS and the alchemists of our time”
  • 320° curved cylindrical panorama of the IMI Immersive Room at the NTU Institute for Media Innovation, Singapore (2011 and 2013/14)
  • The Cube QUT Brisbane For the Web 3D Art Gallery exhibition in Brisbane, the works were on display within The Cube QUT. The Cube QUT is one of the world’s largest digital interactive learning and display spaces dedicated to providing an inspiring, explorative and participatory experience of QUT’s Science and Engineering research. The Cube consists of 48 multi-touch screens soaring across two levels. Housed in QUT’s Science and Engineering Centre, The Cube is your hub for scientific and digital exploration. Collaborating with QUT researchers and drawing on knowledge and data from research areas in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) [1]
  •  The works were composited with the rest of the art works within the the large immersive 360 cylindrical sphere of EPICentre. EPICentre currently host the highest resolution cylinder in the world with 120 million pixels in 3D. UNSW’s EPICentre makes decades of accumulated historic and massive volumes of new data that is being generated more usable. Cutting-edge computing, 3-D immersive and screen-based technologies render this data visible and enable scientists to get inside and be immersed in some of the most challenging and complex medical and health problems. The most advanced facility of its kind, UNSW’s Expanded Perception and Visualisation Interaction Centre is the next generation in medical imaging technology. This groundbreaking new multidisciplinary Centre brings together integrated design thinking to enable scientists to see their research in real time and three dimensions

Since 2007 I have submitted films to more than 120 international juried events. Films were selected and screened in more than 47 international festivals, most significant ones such as:

  • The 14th International Beverly Hills Film Festival,(2014)
  • SPARK [FWD] 3D, VFX & Advanced Imaging Conference Vancouver by prestigious Emily Carr/S3D Centre and the Canadian 3D and Advance Imaging Society (2013)
  • Distinguished the 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK (2013)[2]
  • The 15th Annual Washington DC Independent Film Festival (2013)
  • Canada International Film Festival (2013)
  • Acclaimed Festival Anima Mundi Brazil (2011 and 2013)[3]
  • 6th Annual, Los Angeles, the world’s largest all digital 3D stereoscopic Film, Music & Interactive Festival (2013)
  • Dimension 3 Festival, Seine-Saint–Denis, France (2010)
  • British Academy Awards (BAFTA) qualifying festival, renowned Brooklyn Film Festival New York (2011)

Awards 2007 till present

22 awards, listed here are the most important such as:

  • The 9Th Annual 2018 International 3D Society Creative Arts Awards, Lumiere
  • Advanced Imaging Society 2017 Lumiere Awards Europe (EMEA)
  • The Best 3D New Media Festival 2013 and 2017
  • Audience Choice Award Animation by The 14th International Beverly Hills Film Festival (2014)[4]
  • The 2013 Award 3D-Festival Beyond by Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Germany (2013)[5]
  • 3D Stereo Innovation Award by Hollywood New Media Festival by the international judges from FOX, Pixar, The Caucus, Grammy Awards, Gemini Award and other Hollywood Industry Leaders (2013)
  • Stereo Award by the Hollywood HollyShorts Film Festival (2013)
  • Film was Selected as one of the top 15 films out of 350 films for the VFX Award by prestigious Hollywood Method Studios[6] (2013)
  • Film was competing at the 86th Academy Awards Animated Short Film Competition Screening /OSCAR [7]

Exhibitions/Installations

25 exhibitions 2007-till present:

  • 14 International group/1 solo international exhibition (Japan 2009)
  • 11 local group/2 solo exhibitions (Singapore 2009 and 2013)

The most significant group exhibitions/installations were:

  • “Visualisation Matters 2017 – Art + Science+ Design + Engineering” (VisMatters 2017) EPICenter UNSW
  • 3D Web Art Gallery 2017 the 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D 2017)
  • Singapore Inside Out Tokyo SG:IO Tokyo 2017
  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Hong Kong Art Gallery: Future/Past at the 6TH ACM Siggraph Conference (2013)
  • The 27th Southeast Asian Games (SEAG), closing ceremony segment, Myanmar (2013)
  • Jendela Visual Arts Space, Esplanade Theatres (2013)
  • Young Projects Gallery @ the Pacific Design Center Los Angeles[8] (2012)
  • Attakkalari India Biennial International Contemporary Dance and Digital Arts Festival at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore (2011)
  • Krannert Art Museum University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois, USA (2009)
  • Gallery Theatre, National Museum of Singapore (2008)
  • Series of painting (2008/09) were donated to NTU Museum in 2013 for permanent collection as a part of NTU Museums’ Public Arts on Campus Initiative.

Research Grants Awarded

  • Awarded total of approx. S$532,246.60 SGD research grants since joining NTU 2007. I have written total of 20 research grant proposals for new media arts out of which 13 projects were awarded (out of which 11 as PI with 100% involvement two as Co-PI 10% involvement).

MOE AcRF Tier 3 and AcRF Tier 2 Written Proposals

  • 2012 AcRF Tier 3 (Co-PI) Project Title: “Call Re-imagining Visual Arts Practices”, White Paper Proposal only project title: “Immersion Art Experience: Planetarium,”
  • 2012 AcRF Tier 2 Project Title: “ASIA IN TRANSITION: Cinematic Authorship And The Phenomena Of Simulated Presence,” (MOE2012-T2-2-056, PI) shortlisted by NTU for MOE Submission[9] (2012)
  • MOE AcRF Tier 2, (PI) Project Title “From Canvas to Screen: Stereoscopic 3D and new aesthetic in painting today” (2009)

Publications

28 publications out of which 11 are international such as:

Journal

Paper Title: War Poems: A Transgression of Objective and Linear Imagery towards the Avant-garde in Animation,Ina Conradi Chavez, Journal Name TechArt: Journal of Arts and Imaging Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, pages 14-22., 28. 02.2015

Paper Title: Art at the edges of materiality, 1st Author, Conradi Ina, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Volume 4 (22 November 2011) Volume 5, Issue 1-2 (March 2012),Journal no. 12193Publisher Springer-Verlag, DOI 10.1007/s 12193-011-0074-4, ISSN(Print) 1783-7677, ISSN (Online) 1783-8738, Page 69-75, *22.11.2011

Book Chapter

Book Title: “Metaplasticity in Virtual World: Aesthetic and Semantic Concepts”, Author/Editor Gianluca Mura, Title “Digital Media and Quest for Spiritual in Art”, pp.223-235, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy), Published by IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-077-8.ch013; (2011/12)

Conference Proceedings

  •  Asia Animation Forum 2017, The Expansion of Senses  Bucheon Animation Festival (BIAF) (2017)
  • Ani-Asia: The Expanded Ecologies’, Ani-Techne +: Expanded Animation in Contemporary Media Culture,  Asia Animation Forum
  • International Conference on Cyberworlds University of Calgary, Canada (2011)
  • 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA[10] Istanbul (2011)
  • Eight International Conference, on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV)”(2011)
  • The 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2010 RUHR, Germany (2010)

Other Publications

  • NVIDIA and 3D VISION LIVE platform (2013 and 2017)
  • The best-selling German Blu-ray 3D: “Best of 3D” in cooperation with 3D Content Hub a world-leading content distributor specialized in stereoscopic 3D titles (2014)

Self-Published Books

  • Title: “3D Stereo Pictorial Spaces: Towards New Aesthetic in Contemporary Painting“, Author Ina Conradi, Editor Jayapriya Vasudevan, Singapore ISBN: 978-981-07-2246-3 pages 180, 2012-09-30 (2012)
  •  “Internal External“, Author I. Conradi, Editor Jayapriya Vasudevan, Singapore, ISBN 978-981-08-5116-3, pages 140, 2010-10-02 (2010)

Collaborations established

  • UCLA Design|Media Arts Programme, UCLA Art|Sci Center
  • The University of Applied Arts Vienna, Science Visualization Lab Die Angewandte
  • Empowerment Informatics Program (EMP) at the University of Tsukuba Japan
  • Expanded Perception & Interaction Center (EPIC) at the University New South Wales Art & Design (UNSW);
  • School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent (EDA);
  • URBANSCREEN GmbH & Co. KG; Art & Design
  • Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
  • Valparaiso University (Valpu) Purdue University Northwest (PNW)
  • National Research University of Electronic Technology Moscow (MIET)
  • Parsons School of Design New York (Parsons)
  • NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA)
  • NTU Art & Heritage Museum with Media Art Nexus NTU.
  • The Institute for Media Innovation (2010- till present)
  • Science Centre Singapore (2012- till present)
  • University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, Austria (2010-till present)
  • The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia (2011-till present)
  • Ars Electronica Centre Deep Space, Linz Austria (2011-till present)
  • ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2013-till present) EU project “Creative Europe, Future Design” 2014
  • 3D Innovation Center Berlin, the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Germany (2013-till present)
  • Emily Carr/S3D Centre Vancouver, Canada (2013-till present)
  • City University Hong Kong and ALiVE (Applied Laboratory of Interactive Visualization and Embodiment), Hong Kong (2012)
  • Science Center, Hong Kong and Macao Science Center, Macao (2012- till present)
  • Alioscopy Glass Free 3D display, Paris France/Singapore (2010- till present)

Company Spinoff

Company Crave FX was founded by Project Officers Joshua Tan (BFA ADM 2011), and Davier Yoon (BFA ADM) (2013) upon completing the project AcRF Tier 1 RG55/10.

[1] I was honored to share the same platform with the Academy Award winner for Visual Effects known for American science-fiction film “Alien” directed by Ridley Scot, HR Giger, a Swiss painter. More than 500 artists, scientists and scholars from 45 countries contributed their perspectives, speeches, installations, performances and interventions to this year’s festival. 2013 Festival had more than 85,000 visits. Please see images further in the Research Output Pages 43 onwardsand Appendix Screenings

[2] Established in 1947 renowned around the world the festival premiered films such as Disney Pixar RATATOUILLE, Disney Pixar BRAVE, (2012) “Elysian Fields” opened preview reel of the festival

[3] The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has included this key annual International film festival qualified for the choice of Oscar for Best Animation Short Film. Screening at Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo sets the Festival among the biggest two in the World. Festival was juried and out of 1405 films submitted 531 were selected.

[4] Films included Oscar-winner Thomas Stellmach’s and Maja Oschmann’s “Virtuos Virtuell” (2013)

[5] To highlight significance of the award I am honored that the same award was given in 2012 to Oscar-nominated German filmmaker Wim Wenders, -the president of the European Film Academy Berlin

[6] Movies done by Method Studios are among others “Cloud Atlas”, “Argo”

[8] One of the most prestigious venues in Los Angeles and USA today for contemporary digital media art, since 2009 Young Projects has presented works by some of the true masters of the medium including James Whitney, Garry Hill, Roman Signer, Guyben-Ner, Nathalie Djurberg, Stanya Kahn, Yang Fudong, Ori Gersht, Kate Gilmore, Norway’s AEAEAEAE, Refic Anadol, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Christian Marclay, Julika Rudelius, Michael Snow

[9] The project would bring together international collaborators such as digital fulldome cinema expert professor Paul Bourke from University of Western Australia Centre iVEC@UWA, celebrated Magnum photographer Steve Mc Curry, director founder of XRez Studio Los Angeles, Greg Downing, Walt Disney VFX supervisor Animation Studios’ Arthur Jeppe, (worked on movies such as “Narnia”, ” Independence Day” and “Frozen”)

[10] The annual International Symposium on Electronic Art was initiated in 1988 is one of the most significant conferences for electronic arts today