Immersive Performance, Duration 21:00 min, Derivative TD, 2021
Film by Mark Chavez (US/SG), Dance performance & Choreography by Victoria Primus (AT), Music by Tate Chavez (US), Produced by Ina Conradi & Mark Chavez (US/SG),
Sat Sep 11, 2021, 12:00 pm – 12:20 pm
Sun Sep 12, 2021, 2:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Linz, Ars Electronica Center Deep space 8k.

“The dance of humanity in liquid eroica colours and a thunderstorm of moving sound. Marvellous!.”

Bob Kastner, Candeed Cue, Vienna

“That was such a viscerally electric performance…took my breath away. It was so enhanced by the compelling visuals and music and the way they were so integrated. All of you must have gone thru a lot to come up with this…just beautiful, and yes, sad. “

Jane Goren, Los Angeles.

An extraordinary artwork, created in an extraordinary period. Nocturne brings the time of the Pandemic in the Deep Space 8K.

Interview with artists on AE Blog “Nocturne 2021: the Pandemic on big screen” by Shirin Darwish, Ars Electronica Blog, Sep 1, 2021, https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2021/09/01/nocturne/

“Meanwhile, “Nocturne” is shown in Deep Space 8K, which visually depicts the time of the pandemic in an impressive way.”

Barbara Hinterleitner, Day 5 is Art Thinking Day, Ars Electronica Blog, 13.9.2021https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2021/09/13/tag-5/

Nocturne is an artwork that recognizes the new post-global pandemic world while also acknowledging that other challenges lie ahead. It provides the audience with a contemporary artistic interpretation of the current state of affairs and a fresh breath of life in what would otherwise be a sad outlook. The large-scale, immersive installation uses interactive and audio-reactive visuals with emotive-abstraction animation, mapping emotions, and design with the real-time flow of a dance performance. It creates a tribute to ancient rites of spring by appealing to imagery, music and motion that recalls the past, and signal hope for the future.

The large-scale, immersive installation was created for Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8k theater, 16 x 9 meters of wall and another 16 x 9 meters of floor projection, both in 8K image resolution, with laser-tracking system Pharus for immersive 3D animations.

About ARS ELECTRONICA Festival: From September 8 to 12, Ars Electronica 2021, the festival for art, technology and society, took place not only in Linz (Austria) and 86 other Ars Electronica Gardens around the globe, but also online. Forty-two years after its founding, in the second year of the Covid pandemic, the festival thus presents itself as a dual event – with exhibitions, concerts, talks, conferences, workshops, guided tours and other online activities. A globally networked festival is supported jointly by well over a hundred partners.

from https://ars.electronica.art/news/de/

Link to video documentation of the premier

Press :

Link to AE Programme: https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/nocturne/
Best of Ars Electronica festival 2021 The album contains some of the best photos of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 “A New Digital Deal” ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/
Deep Space 8k: Festival Highlights by Shirin Darwish: https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2021/09/03/deep-space-8k-festival-highlights/

Credits and Bios

MARK CHAVEZ (US) Mark is an animation industry veteran and educator with a record of award-winning feature films and interactive titles. His artistic practice utilizes digital multimedia techniques to tag visual meaning to tangible, recognizable ideas. He explores computer animation and emotive-abstraction. His current work shapes a design sense of a live, anthropomorphic world view to a contemporary scientific view. 

VICTORIA PRIMUS (AT) Victoria is a mother, dancer and choreographer based in Vienna, collaborating internationally. The physical approach to abstract themes is at the centre of her movement experiments, in which the conglomerate of art and science is the driving force. She juxtaposes order and chaos by breaking through fixed choreographies through surprising improvisation. She holds a BA ( Hons ) in Theatre Dance from the University of London Arts, UK

TATE EGON CHAVEZ (US) Composer and multi-instrumentalist Tate Egon Chavez explores the intimacy of unconventional sounds with his compositions for new media and film. During and since the completion of his undergraduate studies in music at UC Berkeley, his soundscapes have featured in festivals internationally. As an independent recording artist, Chavez’s music explores issues of identity in the context of an increasingly multi-cultural world.

INA CONRADI (US) Ina’s new media explorations redefine painting as unframed, animated and spatial, expanding into co-immersive spaces. Her most recent work is in experimental art/sci animation, inspired by Southeast Asian cultural archetypes, describing the fundamental questions raised by Quantum Theory about the very nature of reality. Ina is currently Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

Nocturne Film on Vimeo 2021
Animation, Music Video, Short, Digital, Generative, Derivative Touch Designer
16 by 9, Duration 21:31, Film by Mark Chavez

Movie Stills Slide Show Gallery

Film Screenings And Awards

London International Web & Shorts Film Festival (UK), Winner Best Weird & Wonderful, Nocturne 26 June 2021
Judges include: Joan Gratz: Oscar-Winning Animator Morag McKinnon – Multi BAFTA-winning director, Shona Auerbach- BAFTA-nominated director, Nick Coupe – Award-winning TV/Film & Audio producer (BBC3, Comedy Central, SkyArts, Channel 4)

https://londonwebfest.eventive.org/films/60be06dd14cdaa00451dc96b,

4th Dimension Independent Film Festival, 25-28. 05.2021, Ubud, Bali. Film Screened Nocturne, Finalist for Best Experimental Film

https://www.4thdimensionfilmfest.com/post/fdiff-march-april-results
https://www.4thdimensionfilmfest.com/

Infinity Film Festival London, 5-13 May 2021, Film Screened Nocturne

https://a2deefc0-85ad-4ec2-a170-2b1e57655a60.filesusr.com/ugd/92df6e_f04a52b03bd94de795d5df778685d496.pdf

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