MAN Project activity

Emotion Study

By giantmonster August 21, 2020

The Emote Project - Giant Monster

Singapore/Los Angeles Media Company

Media Art Nexus NTU

The Emote Project - Giant Monster — The Emote Project (Animation, 50 minutes, 12 chapters, 2017) is about feelings, brain waves and real-time experimental animation, Data recorded from EEG brainwave signals were analyzed for emotional patterns and reinterpreted to generate 20 animated chapters. We used non-lyrical music clips of known emotional class (such as happy, sad, exciting, scary, etc) provided by the Computer Science and Engineering Team.

An ongoing public art installation, 15 x 2 meter LED interactive wall in a public corridor in Singapore. It is in a semi-exterior hallway at a university of more than 50,000 students, faculty and staff, at least 5,000 people see the MAN installation daily.
It is a large scale video screen that allows for the exploration of audio reactive, abstract animation design in a public setting — collaborating with academics from the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Created for a 15 x 2 meter LED video wall this animation explores pin screen animation with audio reactive animation and emotive expression. Animation Programming done with Touch Designer. Music De Lune by Claude Debussy, Peter Frankl, piano, Vox, recorded c1962.
A tribute piece dedicated to the innovation of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekseyev, a Russian-born French filmmaker who invented the pin-screen method of animation with his collaborator Claire Parker. This film premiered at the Ars Electronica, Prix Ars Festival in September 2016.

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Mark Chavez, is an award-winning animator, artist, educator, and entrepreneur, and an animation industry veteran. He is a member of the ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d’Animation / International Animated Film Association), a former Art Gallery Chair of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 conference in Hong Kong and Educators Program Chair SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. In 2008 he was granted major funding from the National Research Foundation / Media Development Authority of Singapore to establish research in the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University. The capstone of that work, an innovative short film [Vengeance + Vengeance] screened at 21 international film festivals and competitions. He received 12 awards for the film and supporting research. Mark has developed systems and techniques for animation in many different media including laser light and computer graphics. His work at studios such as Tokyo Broadcasting System Vision, Acclaim Entertainment DreamWorks SKG and Rhythm and Hues Studios in Playa Vista. He has worked on numerous big budget, award-winning animated and live-action films. Animation industry veteran and founding faculty at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media’s Digital Animation area he is currently based in Singapore and Los Angeles and is consulting on game-based Ed Tech start-up and creating interactive/reactive artworks for public art installations.