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This World Made Itself<\/em> (still-image)
SD; digital file, live performance; 30 minutes; 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Miwa Matreyek<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT OF ARTIST PRACTICE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My main practice is as an animator, in which my animation practice was born out of collage-making.
As I started making collages in a digital form, it felt like the next step was to add time, movement, and music, and the collages started to dance. There are several iterations of my work. I create animation as digital moving collages, weaving photos and videos that I shoot along with found images, cut up and restructured into new worlds. I was originally inspired by Surrealist, Dada, and constructivist collages, but later my collages turned to a more painterly quality. I am often weaving myself in to the animation as either rotoscoped videos of myself (part of my body or full figure) as well as sometimes as a live performer along with the projection (as if I am collaging my shadow silhouette into the projected animations.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST BIO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and performer. Coming from a background in animation by way of collage, Matreyek creates live, interdisciplinary performances that integrate projected animations at the intersection of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and physical, and the hand-made and digital. Her work exists in a dreamlike visual space that makes invisible worlds visible, often weaving surreal and poetic narratives of conflict between humanity and nature as embodied performed experiences. She has presented her work internationally, including animation\/film festivals, theater\/performance festivals, art museums, science museums, tech conferences, and universities. A few past presenters include TED, New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival, MOMA, SFMOMA, PUSH festival, Lincoln Center, Walker Art Center, and many more. Her newest solo piece, Infinitely Yours<\/em>, was awarded the grand prize for Prix Arts Electronica\u2019s Computer Animation category. She is a 2013 Creative Capital award recipient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONTACT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

miwamatreyek.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | VIMEO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Examples of Collage in Motion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Lumerence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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