Maf'j Alvarez

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• Rootbeans – 2014

    An evolution of Choice, Chance & Circumstance. Top image: Game played on the floor with improvised ‘beans’ made of pasta at Digihub art and chat Jan 2014 with 6 artists including Aharon, Selena, Simon McLennan, Rachel Cohen, Maf’j Alvarez, Johnny Marshall. Bottom image: A replaying of the game using the same pasta ‘beans’ by […]

• More bark than bite – 1998

  With Hannah Barker Dry Bar, Manchester, 1998 A collaboration with Hannah Barker exploring interpersonal relationships and the sexual tension existing in public spaces. A site specific soft sculpture installation in 5 pieces.

• Holonspace – Etienne Le Comte 2019

  September 5th 2019 saw Stanley Taylor-Murray and myself take Holonspace to GOVR cafe in Brighton where we roped local graphic artist Etienne Le Comte to collaborate with us to create Holons using his artwork (see the picture in the gallery below). This was my first chance to teach someone in vigor to use the Holonspace workflow […]

• Mammary Mountain 2023

  Mammary Mountain is an intimate performative, VR experience created in collaboration with artists Tara Baoth Mooney and Camille Baker that explores disease within the body through the experience of breast cancer. This innovative new artwork uses cutting-edge technology to creatively explore and expose women’s healthcare struggles, particularly the hidden experiences of breast cancer treatment, with […]

• Munkination 2019

  I worked with the early Munkination team set up by the New Audiences lab at The Royal Opera House, as creative technologist for the duration of the Copenhagen VRlab in September 2019. This one week immersive lab saw us creating a pitch and a short VR prototoype which I developed in Unity3d with my Holonspace workflow in […]

• Rekwear – 2002

  With Tanya Meditzky Stoke Newington Festival London 2002 “Want to get an abandoned car towed away quickly? Then turn it into an art installation and wait for bosses at Hackney council to do the job three days early, ruining your exhibition in the process. That is what happened to a group of artists who wanted […]

• 911 – painted forms
• Highly Sprung – 2001
• Dolly and Butch – 2002

  Dolly and Butch are an unlikely couple. They compliment each other as much as the offend each other. Begging to be played with, they tempt you into their soft undulating curves and fluffy spaces. Dolly doesn’t have much going on inside whilst Butch is all that and more.

• Stroke – 1998

  With Tanya Meditzky at ISEA 98, Manchester  “The installation Stroke, by the Manchester artists Maf’j Alvarez and Tanya Meditzky (UK), got the viewer involved on a more subliminal level. After wandering in small cloth-lined spaces, I sat on a low stool to look at a screen through a hole in the wall. I put my […]