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 […]

• Powerbabies VR 2019

  Power Babies VR is an all-out nappy-slinging world domination war game that brings out the egotistical power-hungry toddler in all of us. Part VR game prototype, part political satire piece, the experience was made at a two-day hackathon in 2019. Power Babies VR puts you in the baby seat of the world’s most powerful toddlers […]

• Soft World – 2000

  With Tanya Meditzky at The Lowry, 2000

• 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.

• Panopticon 2013

  Play Panopticon and become a data controller! build your data empire, the tallest tower from which to view the entire internet and control how content and personal data moves. You may have good intentions, or bad ones. Behind the virtual air we breathe are the people who control us – the battle for data and […]

• 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 […]

• Care = Art = Care – 1999

  Care = Art = Care St Augustinus Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium Showing an adaptation of ‘Stroke’  Group Show – 2002

• INTER/her 2020

  Working with Artist Camille Baker on a prototype project around the female reproductive system. The piece is now live as a full version developed for the Oculus Quest and has been shown at various festivals and events by Camille. Visit the website https://inter-her.art Over several months in 2019, I worked with Camille to develop a series […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]