An immersive AI-driven media artwork screened at Chongqing’s Port Heritage Park as part of one of China’s leading light and technology art festivals.

Echoes, Whispers and Memories has received the Excellent Work Award at the Luminous Flare Light and Tech Art Festival in Chongqing, China.

The work was screened at Port Heritage Park, Nan’an District, as part of a large-scale public media architecture installation.  Internationally curated digital art festival organized by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. The festival brought together internationally recognized studios and artists, including teamLab and Moment Factory, reinforcing its standing as one of China’s leading platforms for new media art and creative technology. Presenting immersive media works across a panoramic screen installation measuring approximately 180 m² and spanning over 30 meters in width, including a 12-metre high central stage screen with extended side panels. The PI’s work was screened alongside global studios such as Moment Factory, highlighting the festival’s high professional visibility within China’s digital art and creative technology landscape. The festival is organized by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (SFAI) School of Design, the Visual Arts Research Institute, the Chongqing Artists Association and Technology Art Committee, FLARE 实验室 (Future Lab for A.I. Redesign Engineering), and the TEA New Media Community—together forming one of China’s leading platforms for light, technology, and new media art.

Yan, D. (2025, November 11). Light & Tech Art Festival illuminates Chongqing. iChongqing. https://www.ichongqing.info/2025/11/11/light-tech-art-festival-illuminates-chongqing/

Grateful to the festival organizers, curators, and collaborators, and to be showing alongside international studios and artists working at the intersection of immersive media, AI, and public space. Special thanks to Ruokun Chen and Jun Zhang (Digital FUN / TEA New Media Community).

📍 Chongqing, China | November 2025
🏆 Excellent Work Award
(Experimental Animation, time variable 3–20 min, 2024–2025).
Directed and animated by Mark Chavez | Produced by Ina Conradi | Original Score by Tate Egon Chavez.

Formatted and adapted for diverse exhibition environments, from 4K–8K cinematic projection to large-scale LED façades and immersive rooms, here
a large-scale public media architecture installation (approximately 180 m², spanning 30 meters in width, with a 12-meter-high central stage screen).

Echoes, Whispers and Memories is a practice-led immersive media work that investigates memory as an entropic and non-linear phenomenon within AI-driven visual and sonic systems. Through generative animation, spatialized sound, and large-scale public screen presentation, the work examines how cultural memory, affect, and technological mediation intersect—producing fragile, shifting forms that echo, fade, and recombine over time. Positioned within media architecture and public space, the work foregrounds the temporal and ethical dimensions of AI as a co-creative agent.
The work premiered in October 2024 as part of the City Digital Skin Art Festival (CDSA): Beyond the Screens, presented on the West Lake Media Façade (Building 180), a 170 m × 18 m large-scale LED installation in the center of Hangzhou, China. Since its premiere, the work has travelled internationally, with screenings and performances in Beijing, Singapore, Milan, Los Angeles, Linz, and Chongqing, across major media architecture, immersive exhibition spaces, and live performance contexts.