Maf'j Alvarez

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• Elusive Fish – 1995
• 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 […]

• 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.

• 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 […]

• Hardly soft – 1995
• 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 […]

• Three Sisters 2015

  Three Sisters’ is an installation using fibre optics and plastic which looks towards pre-colonial native American traditions in planting to reveal stories about women and technology Corn, beans and squash are three inseparable sisters who according to Native American legend and folklore are the sustainers of life. Eaten together they provide all vital nutritional elements […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• A house for a fly 2018

  A house for a fly is an intimate room scale VR experience that tells the story of Lila, a 6-year-old girl who discovers she is locked in a room with only a sleeping baby and a fly for to keep her company. Sweet and compelling, you are drawn into a bedroom in a rural mountain […]