Maf'j Alvarez

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• Warbells 2019

  Warbells is an emotionally rich, interactive VR experience about loss, destruction and transformation, during a time of rapid global change. Commissioned by the Vorarlberg Museum in Austria, Warbells commemorates the end WW1 from a completely new perspective that lets you experience historical events, space and time in sound and vision. “War Bells is one of […]

• 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.

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Radiolaria – 2003
• 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 […]

• Guaycuyacu – 2000

  November 2000 saw a trip to Reserva Rio Guaycuyacu in Ecuador. Run by Jim and Meredith West Foyle, this incredible lowland tropical rainforest was home to me when i volunteered with them during one month. The reserve produces fruit trees and aims to work with local people to promote diversity of species and general improved […]

• Hanningtons Hackday 2019

  October 18th 2019 I led a one day hack with Fusebox Brighton and Arts Driva artists – exploring the history and architecture of Brighton’s newest Lane. Hannington Lane in Brighton is a temporal bridge. It is both the newest lane in Brighton (the first for 150 years), and it contains the oldest building in the […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]