November 18, 2015

Grant Recital Hall

A conversation with Chi-Wang Yang ‘99, Miwa Matrayek, and Anna Oxygen.

Los Angeles-based Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group comprised of three members: Brown University alumnus Chi-wang Yang ‘99, along with Miwa Matreyek and Anna Oxygen. The artists presented a talk about their work which is a mix of projected animation, live performance, and music that examines the psychological fallout of global disaster.

Cloud Eye Control creates original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live performance. Since their inception in 2004 they have created three original works that have been presented both nationally and internationally. This talk was co-sponsored by FirstWorks, the Creative Arts Council and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Cloud Eye Control was in Providence to perform the East Coast debut of Half Life at the Columbus Theatre, presented by FirstWorks on November 21.

This public talk was part of a production-based course called Performance in a Virtual World taught by Associate Professor Kym Moore (TAPS) and Professor Todd Winkler (MEME). The  course involved an eclectic group of graduate and undergraduate students in acting, directing, playwriting, traditional and electronic music composition, and computer science. The students came together to explore emerging interactive and immersive media technologies, and how performance strategies in acting and directing are transformed when operating in a virtual world.

Chi-wang Yang ‘99 is a Los Angeles-based theater director and interdisciplinary artist, and founding member of video performance collective Cloud Eye Control. He is a graduate of Brown University, where he studied with Spencer Golub, John Emigh, and Michelle Bach-Coulibaly (Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies). His work, rigorously experimental and collaborative, integrates technology with movement and dance. It has been presented in theaters, galleries, and museums internationally, including at REDCAT, Fusebox Festival, EXIT Festival (France), Santiago a Mil (Chile), Time-Based Arts Festival, Havana Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe. Recent projects include the multimedia opera Under Polaris with Cloud Eye Control, and The Closest Farthest Away/La Entrañable Lejanía, a groundbreaking collaboration between Cuban and American artists. Chi-wang currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his MFA in Theater Directing and Integrated Media.

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