Research Highlights:
TITLE OF PROJECT ACADEMIC RESEARCH FUND (AcRF) TIER 1:
Digital Imaging in Singapore: The Integration of digital imagery with traditional art media and techniques for site specific architectural, urban and landscape settings of Singapore
Pl: Asst Prof Ina Conradi Chavez
School of Art Design and Media (ADM), NTU
Area of Research: Digital Imaging, Public Art
Innovative approach toward image creation methodologies, integration of emotive and subjective abstract imagery in digital, traditional and non-traditional forms is currently an area of active research in which Asst Prof Ina Conradi Chavez from the School of Art Design and Media (ADM) is delving into, with the financial support from Academic Research Fund (AcRF). Implementing the latest technologies in image creation, this research project is attempting to document emotive spaces and impressions of Singapore to build illusions of three-dimensional creative vision; moving forward to using this imagery as a resource for more creative work that will comprise of an exploration of manipulated surfaces and mixed media structures in site specific settings.
The project aim is to explore abstract imagery in the Singaporean context using techniques commonly used in the feature film visual effects industry and advertising, e.g. high quality large-sale image creation for banners, posters and projection.
There are four basic problems that Asst. Prof. Ina Conradi Chavez is currently exploring in this research project,
1) oversized image creation using algorithmic paint strokes,
2) high resolution computer rendering techniques,
3) over-painting techniques,
4) reactive painted surfaces and imagery integrating animation and physical motion.
With a focus on exploring techniques for integrated image generation, painting with digital technologies and integrating traditional art and materials, the emphasis is on exploring the limitations of the digital medium, painting and reactive imagery and then pushing to achieve greater creative levels. This research is looking into how the image combined with digital and traditional painted and drawn mediums, affect the significance of the surface. In part, by exploring commercial and custom-coated substrates and an assortment of special surfaces such as metal, plastic laminates in a digital printmaking approach as well as an interactive prototype depicting the illusion of surface.
Implemented methods and art work developed is going to be exhibited in regional and internataional galleries, site specific locations and screened at animation festivals.
Click here for proposal abstract.
Digital Pre-Visualisation of ‘Elixir of Redness’, Singapore 2008
Example above is of oversized image creation using algorithmic paint strokes and utilizing high resolution computer rendering techniques. When digital images are combined with outsized and multidimensional surfaces, the creative possibilities are vast and always expanding as the new technologies emerge.