Maf'j Alvarez

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• 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 […]

• Elusive Fish – 1995
• Hook seeds – 2002
• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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.

• Soft World – 2000

  With Tanya Meditzky at The Lowry, 2000

• 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 […]

• Radiolaria – 2003
• 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 […]