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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.
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)