From rotoscoping to video game engines, real-world motion has long been used as a template for fictional recreation. While used widely, it’s rare to find creative uses of these tools that push beyond the body as a software activator.
Artist, programmer, and dancer Maya Man explores the concept of the body as a medium for artistic expression through motion and volumetric capture. She sees herself as not just the activator of the software but an integral part of its process and the source of a project’s meaning.
In this post-mortem, Maya explores three past projects, two versions of Feral File project “Can I Go Where You Go” and musician Joji’s “777” music video. Foran audience that is at beginner to intermediate level familiarity with mocap and volumetric capture, this post-mortem will examine not only the functionality of these softwares but the higher utility of them as obsearvers of self and conveyors of practice.
About Maya
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self online. She is the creator of the browser extension Glance Back and the Art Blocks curated collection FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT. She has exhibited internationally at bitforms, NYC; SOOT, Tokyo; Vellum, Los Angeles; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; and Feral File, online. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Forbes, Zora Zine, Dirt, Various Artists, and more. Maya holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College and an MFA in Media Art from UCLA.
From rotoscoping to video game engines, real-world motion has long been used as a template for fictional recreation. While used widely, it’s rare to find creative uses of these tools that push beyond the body as a software activator.
Artist, programmer, and dancer Maya Man explores the concept of the body as a medium for artistic expression through motion and volumetric capture. She sees herself as not just the activator of the software but an integral part of its process and the source of a project’s meaning.
In this post-mortem, Maya explores three past projects, two versions of Feral File project “Can I Go Where You Go” and musician Joji’s “777” music video. Foran audience that is at beginner to intermediate level familiarity with mocap and volumetric capture, this post-mortem will examine not only the functionality of these softwares but the higher utility of them as obsearvers of self and conveyors of practice.
About Maya
Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the performance of self online. She is the creator of the browser extension Glance Back and the Art Blocks curated collection FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT. She has exhibited internationally at bitforms, NYC; SOOT, Tokyo; Vellum, Los Angeles; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; and Feral File, online. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Forbes, Zora Zine, Dirt, Various Artists, and more. Maya holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College and an MFA in Media Art from UCLA.