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Matreyek's second performance, ''Dreaming of Lucid Living'' (2007), was her M.F.A thesis project. Her work was nominated for the Student Grand Prize at the Platform Festival, which she won. |
Matreyek's second performance, ''Dreaming of Lucid Living'' (2007), was her M.F.A thesis project. Her work was nominated for the Student Grand Prize at the Platform Festival, which she won. |
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Two years later, in 2009, Matreyek's work was globally praised with the release if a short film that will change her career, ''Panorama City'' (2009). |
Two years later, in 2009, Matreyek's work was globally praised with the release if a short film that will change her career, ''Panorama City'' (2009). In the same year, Matreyek had an installation called ''City Lights'' (2009). The installation is a mix of the artist's different talents like animation, collages, and her shadow body. |
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Miwa Matreyek is a Japanese animator, director, designer and performer living and working in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA for Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at CalArts in 2007. While in school, she began collaborating with American singer Anna Oxygen and Chi-wang Yang to form a multi-media theater company called Cloud Eye Control.
Matreyek's work combines aspects of her training in animation, collage and performance.[1] She combines projected animation and real time shadow play.[2]
She premiered her work Myth and Infrastructure at the TED Conference in Oxford.[3]
Career
Miwa Matreyek's first performance Ocean Flight (2005) is a piece of art put together with the help of M.F.A student Chi-wang Yang and singer Anna Oxygen. Matreyek will wait two years before putting out another animated performance.
Matreyek's second performance, Dreaming of Lucid Living (2007), was her M.F.A thesis project. Her work was nominated for the Student Grand Prize at the Platform Festival, which she won.
Two years later, in 2009, Matreyek's work was globally praised with the release if a short film that will change her career, Panorama City (2009). In the same year, Matreyek had an installation called City Lights (2009). The installation is a mix of the artist's different talents like animation, collages, and her shadow body.