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Miwa Matreyek is a director, animator, designer, and performer working in Los Angeles, California.

In 2007, Matreyek received her MFA for Experimental Animation and Intergrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. While being a student, she developed her talent and passion for animation and collage. Matreyek collaborated with fellow student and interactive multi-media expert Chi-wang Yang and American singer Anna Oxygen to form a theater company called Cloud Eye Control.

Miwa Matreyek blends animation, collage, and performance all together in order to present her work of art to the public. She uses her own shadow body, rear-projected animation, and perfect timing in her work.

Matreyek won the Student Grand Prize at the Platform Festival for her thesis project performance Dreaming of Lucid Luving in 2007.

She is known for her her performance Myth and Infrastructure (2010) and her short film Lumerence (2012), which its premiere was presented at the reputable TED Global Conference in Oxford, England in July 2010.

Matreyek's art (performances, short films, and installations) was presented in many conferences, festivals, museums, schools, art centres, etc.

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.

Matreyek's second short film, Lumerence (2012), came out three years after her first short film, Panorama City. The film has a more experimental approach, since she used collages and digigal softwares to add a narrative to her story.

The next performance presentated by Matreyek was This World Made Itself released in 2013. Once again, she used her own body to make shadow silhouettes, collages, and digital softwares to realize the performance.

The third animated performance by Miwa Matreyek is Myth and Infrastructure (2010). The artist had the opportunity to present the work of art in front of a live audience at TED Global 2010, which gave her a lot of visibility. She also performed the same work five years later in Zurich, in Switzerland, at the Museum for Design.

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
2005	Ocean Flight	Performance
2007	Dreaming of Lucid Living	Performance
2009	Panorama City	Short Film
2010	Myth and Infrastructure	Performance
2012	Lumerence	Short Film
2013	This World Made Itself	Performance

References

1. Blanchard, Philippe. “Quest for Fire: Exploration in Expanded Animation.” Master’s thesis, Ontario College of Arts & Design University, 2010.

2. Smith, Vicky, and Nicky Hamlyn. Experimental and Expanded Animation. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

3. Tomlinson, Lynn. “The dance of the live and the animated: Performance animation by Kathy Rose, Miwa Matreyek and Eva Hall.” Animation Practice, Process & Production 3 (2013): 17-55

4. Willis, Holly. Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016

5. Zornoza, Beatriz Herraiz. “DOT: Animation in Theatre for Children”. Animation Studies 10 (2015)