Please join us for the final AT/SP visiting artist talk of the semester!
This talk will take place online. You are welcome to join us in zoom or in the flex space: MC400.
Zoom link : https://saic-edu.zoom.us/j/9542467798?pwd=MU5kZUtsYjlPSkJmZExrUGhmZFRKQT09
Miwa Matreyek, is an animator, designer, and performer currently based in Vancouver BC. She is an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in their School for the Contemporary Arts in the Theatre Production and Design area. She has been an internationally touring independent artist since 2010. Coming from a background in animation by way of collage, Matreyek creates live, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette, at the intersection of cinematic and theatrical, fantastical and tangible, illusionistic and physical. Her work attempts to make invisible worlds visible while weaving surreal and poetic narratives of creation and destruction, micro and macro worlds, and the tension and conflict between modern humanity and nature.
Her work exists both at the realm of the hand-made and digital. She travels as a one-woman show, often incorporating artist talks and workshops.
Her work has been presented at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontiers section, MoMA, SFMoMA, Lincoln Center, REDCAT, The Walker Art Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and many more. She is a co-founding member of the multi-media theater company, Cloud Eye Control. She is a recipient of the Sherwood Award (2016), Creative Capital Award (2013), Princess Grace Award (2007), and Princess Grace Foundation’s Special Projects award (2009, 2012, 2019). Cloud Eye Control is a recipient of several awards and grants including MAP fund (2013), the National Theater Project grant by NEFA (2013), NPN Creation Fund (2008). Her recent work Infinitely Yours won the Golden Nica for Computer Animation at Ars Electronica 2020.
