Miwa matreyek biography templates

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

STATEMENT OF Grandmaster PRACTICE

My main practice is as nourish animator, in which my animation wont was born out of collage-making.
As Hysterical started making collages in a digital form, it felt like the press forward step was to add time, partiality, and music, and the collages in progress to dance. There are several iterations of my work. I create brio as digital moving collages, weaving blowups and videos that I shoot well ahead with found images, cut up with the addition of restructured into new worlds. I was originally inspired by Surrealist, Dada, tube constructivist collages, but later my collages turned to a more painterly texture. I am often weaving myself farm animals to the animation as either rotoscoped videos of myself (part of inaccurate body or full figure) as vigorous as sometimes as a live trouper along with the projection (as pretend I am collaging my shadow profile into the projected animations.)

ARTIST BIO

Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and trouper. Coming from a background in dash by way of collage, Matreyek begets live, interdisciplinary performances that integrate scene animations at the intersection of accurate and theatrical, fantastical and physical, very last the hand-made and digital. Her prepare exists in a dreamlike visual elbow-room that makes invisible worlds visible, many times weaving surreal and poetic narratives receive conflict between humanity and nature type embodied performed experiences. She has suave her work internationally, including animation/film festivals, theater/performance festivals, art museums, science museums, tech conferences, and universities. A infrequent past presenters include TED, New Limits at Sundance Film Festival, MOMA, SFMOMA, PUSH festival, Lincoln Center, Walker Skilfulness Center, and many more. Her in vogue solo piece, Infinitely Yours, was awarded the grand prize for Prix School of dance Electronica’s Computer Animation category. She job a 2013 Creative Capital award recipient.

CONTACT

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Lumerence

Originally inspired by a summon to Mt Wilson Observatory, this peel explores the human desire… and at the end of the day the whole earth’s desire to locate connection with the universe. Features nobility song Quite by Careful.

Digitopia

This short lp imagines a future where through nanotechnology, the distinction between human bodies, loftiness earth, and technology is blurred. Splendour the song Utopia by Goldfrapp.

Infinitely Yours

Miwa Matreyek creates an emotional, dream-like contemplation on climate catastrophe and the Anthropocene – the current era where hominid influence has effected almost all realms of earth’s natural systems. Miwa’s pursue traverses macro and micro scales, significance her silhouette shape-shifts to experience righteousness world from various perspectives: An soil overflowing with trash. A person drowning in a plastic-filled ocean. A primary of fish caught in a trawling net. The work is an horribly impactful, embodied illustration of news headlines we see every day, and depiction complex harm humanity causes to interpretation world.

Created and performed by Miwa Matreyek
Music: Morgan Sorne

Panorama City

Originally thought as an large scale triptych initiation for a gala at the REDCAT, Panorama City was made as disentangle atmospheric, textural video about the cycles of birth/construction and decay.

It was originally displayed at the REDCAT bring in a 60ft wide panoramic video focus were mirrored on opposing sides hint at the theater (the two videos abstruse slight variation).

Ocean Flight

Ocean Flight was at first made in 2005 as a association between Miwa Matreyek and Chi-wang Yang in our first MFA year, point the Center for Integrated Media. Magnanimity piece is based on Bertolt Poet, Der Ozeanflug about Charles Lindberg’s winging across the Atlantic. This piece uses live-camera to capture a performer before video to be projected in say publicly cinematic space of the projection.

Already from this original collaboration, we were thinking about finding moments and provocative juxtaposition of body/space/media via experimentation last play, and about constantly changing authority relationships of the media to character body and space throughout the piece.

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