Mark Chavez is a media artist and filmmaker at Giant Monster / Media Art Nexus, working between Singapore and Los Angeles, USA (<add-email>). Ina Conradi is an artist and Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, based in Singapore (<add-email>). Tate Chavez is an independent sound artist based in Los Angeles, USA.
Abstract
Echoes, Whispers and Memories is a media artwork that explores Quantum Entropy not only as a scientific principle but as an affective engine for aesthetic practice. Across its international exhibitions—spanning Los Angeles, Hangzhou, Linz, and Singapore—the project investigates how instability, collapse, and re-composition can be rendered perceptible through media architecture. Entropy here is not abstract disorder but a lived condition: the wildfire haze of Southern California, the political violence of ICE raids, the monumental dispersal of imagery across Hangzhou’s skyline, the immersive turbulence of Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K, and the reflective contradictions of
