Echoes, Whispers and Memories is a site-specific animation that reimagines entropy not as decline, but as a creative force driving transformation. It explores how memory, matter, and energy dissolve and reassemble in urban life. Drawing on quantum ideas and ancient wisdom, the work presents entropy as the quiet unfolding of change—like echoes fading into silence yet lingering in memory.
Audiences encounter a contemplative animation that brings moments of stillness to public space. The piece invites reflection on impermanence, cultural continuity, and the interconnection of people, histories, and environments.
The project premiered at the 2024 City Digital Skin Art (CDSA) Festival on monumental screens across Asia, including Singapore, Hangzhou, and Beijing. Supported by leading institutions across Asia and Europe, the work was later reinstalled in Los Angeles, resonating with the 2025 wildfire crisis and reflecting on the digital traces of human presence in a world shaped by upheaval.
Echoes, Whispers and Memories / Mark Chavez, Ina Conradi - Photo: Mark Chavez
Event
Echoes, Whispers and Memories
Mark Chavez (US), Ina Conradi (US)
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EN
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FESTIVALPASS, FESTIVALPASS+, ONE DAY PASS, Ars Electronica Center Ticket
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Warning of Strobe light/intense lighting. // Dieses Programm enthält stroboskopische Effekte/intensive Lichteffekte.
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Media Art Nexus
Media Art Nexus (MAN) is a transnational media art initiative originally launched in Singapore in 2016. Rooted in academic and curatorial experimentation, MAN transforms public screens into living interfaces. It supports emerging and established artists through immersive, cross-border media art, activating global platforms from Asia to North America—including an evolving presence in Los Angeles.
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Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, is a leading research-intensive public university with 35,000 students across disciplines. Known for innovation, sustainability, and global partnerships, NTU advances digital technologies through its Smart Campus vision. In the QS World University Rankings 2025, NTU was ranked 15th globally and 4th in Asia.
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China Academy of Art Hangzhou
The China Academy of Art (CAA), founded in 1928 in Hangzhou, is China’s leading institution for fine arts education. Celebrated for bridging traditional Chinese artistry with contemporary practice, CAA offers a wide range of programs spanning painting, sculpture, public art, design, architecture, and new media. With a strong commitment to cultural heritage and artistic innovation, it continues to play a defining role in shaping China’s art scene.
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Public Art Lab Berlin
Public Art Lab (PAL) is a Berlin-based action research lab for urban media art. It curates and produces projects in public space at the intersection of media art, urban planning, and technology. PAL specializes in creative city making, Citizen Science, and translocal dialogue. Its recent initiatives include Creative Europe-funded projects that foster co-design, placemaking, and community engagement through festivals and artistic platforms.
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Photo: Steve Escarcega
Mark Chavez
Of Amerindian descent, Mark Chavez is based in Singapore and Los Angeles. A founding faculty member at NTU Singapore’s School of Art, Design, and Media, he is an animation veteran with credits on award-winning Hollywood films. His work explores synthetic sculpture and real-time storytelling through short films and immersive art. Blending Indigenous design with quantum theory, he takes a decolonial, multidisciplinary approach to visualizing abstract concepts and metaphysical realities.
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Photo: Steve Escarcega
Ina Conradi
Ina Conradi, of Slavic heritage, is based in Singapore and Los Angeles. An Associate Professor at NTU Singapore since 2005, she creates short films and immersive art that blend cultural archetypes with experimental interpretations of existence. A trained weaver and painter turned digital artist, she approaches animation as a spatial, choreographed experience—transforming screens into layered, temporal tapestries inspired by haute-lisse traditions.
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Photo: Samantha Lee
Tate Chavez
Tate Egon Chavez is a composer, curator, and arts programmer based in Los Angeles. He holds a B.A. in Music and Economics from UC Berkeley, where he studied composition at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). His soundscapes have been featured at Ars Electronica (2016, 2019, 2021), Singapore Inside Out: Tokyo, and numerous film festivals. All the while, his experience as a musician informs his role as a key organizer in Los Angeles’ experimental music ecosystem via dublab.
