Apr 18, 2015
All Day Event
Miwa Matreyek is an internationally recognized animator, designer, and multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. She will lead a workshop with NU students in Gloria Sutton’s Art + Design class and students from the ICA’s Teen Program. This workshop is in conjunction with Miwa’s performances of Myth and Infrastructure and This World Made Itself at the ICA Boston on April 17 and 18. More Info.
Matreyek creates animated short films as well as live works that integrate animation, performance, and video installation. Arriving to animation from a background in collage, her work explores how animation transforms when it is combined with body, both physically in her performance pieces, as well as a composited video element in her short films.
In her projection based performances, animation takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality, creating an experience that is both cinematic and theatrical. She is interested in the slippery meeting point of cinema and theater/performance, the moments of convergence where fantastical illusions are created, and the moments of divergence where the two struggle against each other.
Her work has been shown internationally at animation/film festivals, theater festivals, performance festivals, as well as art galleries, science museums, tech conferences, universities, and more. View her TED Talk here.
Matreyek received her MFA (2007) in Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. She is one of the founding-member and core-collaborator of Cloud Eye Control.
Feature photo by Gayle Laird
Partners: Northeastern Center for the Arts, ICA Boston, New England Foundation for the Arts
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