Ina Conradi-Chavez (USA, Singapore) http//www.inaconradi.com
Ina's Areas of Research are: AI in Art, Interactive Installation, Art in Motion, Computer Generated Animation, Stereoscopic 3D, 360 Immersive Media Displays, Media Architecture

Ina is an award-winning new media artist. Her works uniquely combine digital painting and experimental S3D animation for co-immersive spaces, installations, and media architecture.

Her animated film Chrysalis was bestowed prestigious 2018 Lumiere Award by Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) Hollywood and 2017 Lumiere Award on behalf of Stereopsia Belgium, AIS and VR Society’s EMEA chapter (Europe). Her animated film Elysian Fields received over 14 international awards and landed her at the 86th Academy Awards Animated Short Film Qualifying Screening. She premiered her works 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, 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 exhibited and presented at the 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 & 2021, Singapore Inside Out Tokyo 2017, Web 3D Art Gallery Brisbane 2017, PISAF Korea and Visualization Matters 2017, Siggraph Asia 2014, and ISEA among many others. She exhibited and presented her works at the international events among others: Beijing Film Academy, Ars Electronica Festival (2011-2019), Media Architecture Biennial 2018 Beijing, Art|Sci Gallery UCLA, Web 3D Art Gallery Brisbane, Visualization Matters UNSW Sydney, Asia Animation Forum PISAF Korea, Beyond Festival ZKM, New Media Festival, 67th Edinburgh IFF, Women 3D directors, Paramount Studios Hollywood, FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia Stuttgart, Siggraph Asia, ISEA.

Ina holds Master’s of Fine Art from UCLA. She has been teaching at the California State University Long Beach, at the LASALLE College of the Arts and since 2007 at the Nanyang Technological University. Ina is a member of Union of Slovene Fine Art Arts Association, (ZDSLU), and has been Japan Foundation Fellow since 1991. Currently Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media she has been presented with the Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award 2015 and the Nanyang Education Award 2014 (School) for recognition to the influence of inspirational teaching.

From 2016 to the present, Ina's curates content for public art project Media Art Nexus (MAN) at Nanyang Technological University Singapore,(15 m by 2m LED urban media art display) has been supported by Singapore's NTU Museum's Campus Art Trail Initiative. She 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/