Maf'j Alvarez

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• 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.

• Almost Home 2023

  When I’m walking home at night in the dark, I hold my key so it sticks out between my first and second finger in case I need to hit out at somebody. I stand up straight and tall, and put my hood up if I have one, so that from behind, it’s less obvious that […]

• Eva Quantica 2020

  Eva Quantica is a virtual reality dance piece created by artist Maf’j Alvarez about female identity in a lockdown bubble – a dreamlike, painterly open world to explore Eve and her multiple selves. Created by Maf’j Alvarez. Commissioned by the National Gallery, London, as part of National Gallery X and Audience Labs at the Royal […]

• 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 […]

• Gorba (Uprooted) 2022

  Gorba (Uprooted) is a multiplayer VR experience for the Oculus Quest that encourages the exchange of stories carried in virtual objects. It was created over 4 days for the 2022 StoryJam event in Utrecht, Netherlands in October 2022. The project was created in collaboration of Team B – four women with different backgrounds – Iran, […]

• 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 […]

• Soft World – 2000

  With Tanya Meditzky at The Lowry, 2000

• Hook seeds – 2002
• 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 […]

• Quantum Computer 2019

  Working in collaboration with Sussex University Quantum Ion Technology group to develop a creative VR experience featuring the prototype Quantum computer being developed by the group. We’re busy at the National Quantum Technologies Showcase in London today with our #VR demo of the trapped ion #quantum computer in collaboration with @PhysicsAtSussex @SPQRsussex it’s going down […]