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iNYALA 2019 Award Presentation and Closing Ceremony

It’s a call for celebration as ​iNYALA 2019 had successfully concluded its first light art installation exhibition and presented five awards after a highly competitive judging process by the industry professionals on last Sunday, 1 December 2019 at REXKL.

Following an open call to the local higher education institutions in July 2019 garnering artistic proposals that best represents the theme “​Imagine the Impossible​” with sustainability practice, nine teams of students emerged as the finalists. Each finalist team was assigned an allotted amount of RM1,500 to execute their final artworks to be exhibited at a month-long exhibition at REXKL from 1 – 30 November 2019 and eventually determine 5 winning teams of different award categories.

The finalists’ artworks comprising ​Reverse Rain Box by Unison Indra (UCSI University); Uniarea by Creaters (Dasein Academy of Art); ​Digital Shui by H2O (MMU); ​Icosahedron by BIMDs (The One Academy); ​Mindforest by CD-rw (Dasein Academy of Art); ​Cocoon Made Me Do It by Ramai-Ramai (MMU); ​Time Machine by Sue Ann (Raffles College of Higher Education); ​Swing Beyond by BIMDs (The One Academy); and ​NOÉL​ by ODRANOÉL (UCSI University).

There are five awards including ​Best of Show ​(Cash Prize: RM8,000), ​Best Use of Technology (Cash Prize: RM3,000), ​Best Visual Appearance (Cash Prize: RM3,000), ​Best Inspiration (Cash Prize: RM3,000) and ​Crowd Favorite ​(Cash Prize: RM2,000).

The winners are as follow:

The Crowd Favorite Award: Time Machine, ​Sue Ann from Raffles College of Higher Institution​. The data showed that a total of 14472 visitors and 120 hours interacted with the artwork.
The Best Inspiration Award:​ Reverse Rain Box, ​Unison Indra from UCSI University​.
The Best Visual Appearance Award: ​Swing Beyond, ​BIMDs from The One Academy.
The Best Use of Technology Award:​ Reverse Rain Box,Unison Indra from UCSI University.
 The Best of Show Award:​ Time Machine, Sue Ann from Raffles College of Higher Institution​.

iNYALA presented the awards in recognition of the following criteria:

  • The Crowd Favorite Award: Best engagement rate based on the parameter of the highest visitors count with the longest duration captured with audience measurement technology deployed at iNYALA 2019 exhibition.
  • The Best Inspiration Award: Concept, Originality, Creativity, Innovation and Relation to Key Theme “Imagine the Impossible”.
  • The Best Visual Appearance Award: ​Quality of Artwork, Visual Appearance, Installation Method and Overall Presentation
  • The Best Use of Technology Award: Durability, Stability, Technology Application and Interactive Elements
  • The Best of Show Award:​ Best score from all the criteria stated above Speaking at the closing ceremony, Founder of iNYALA, ​Helios Loo expressed his gratitude to all of iNYALA’s partners for the past six months as well as media exposure and public’s interest and visits throughout the entire exhibition month.

Helios added that “In the past 30 days, we set up audience measurement system around our exhibition space to study the user behaviour and to understand about the demographics of the visitors so that we can improve in future event.”

“Till the very last day, we have over 8,000 visitors, which 75% of them are below 30s and we are excited to know that more and more young generation are eager to join us to explore on this journey of inspiration with sustainability in mind. Besides, 15% of the visitors are foreigners, which we believe we are one step closer to bring the local talents’ works to be seen on an international level, and we will continue to work on that!”

On top of that, iNYALA is committed to sustainability efforts wherein the light art installations are integrated with energy efficiency elements and will only be powered up when there are interaction and engagement between the audience and the installations. iNYALA advocates for responsible consumption and production as a great concept and execution should always be infused with sustainability considerations on artwork’s second life and innovative use of recycled materials.

In closing of the exhibition, iNYALA also organised a sustainability forum as a meaningful and impactful means to end the event. The panel discussion, ‘From Green Building to Green Ideas’ is organised in collaboration with ​the UCSI School of Architecture & Built Environment, was moderated by ​Low Ngai Yuen ​and featuring talks by renowned architects ​Huat Lim and ​Chris Wong​, and ​Sutapa Bhattacharya​, General Manager of Corporate Strategic Communications of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).

INYALA hopes to come back with a bigger, better and brighter exhibition in 2020 in search for the upcoming inspiring and innovative artists and designers in Malaysia.

Proudly organised by Helio Media, iNYALA 2019 would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners – REXKL​, ​Air Asia​, ​Yayasan Sime Darby,​ ​Passionation​, ​Visit Malaysia 2020​, ​Kini Events​, ​FNL PRJCT and RUBIX​. Most importantly, iNYALA is grateful for the utmost support from ​Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) in virtue of their endorsement to young Malaysians and continued sustainable development for our nation.

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