Post-Pandemic Postmortem: A New Media Guerilla Experience
Join media artist, technical director and filmmaker Maziar Ghaderi for an overview of his work in livestream, and interactive live performances during the pandemic, including a screening and tech demo of The Grand Hacker – a live cinema production created as part of RBC Artist In Residency at Canadian Stage in 2021. Live cinema is an emergent storytelling platform that allows for a performance to be shot and screened at the same time using live editing and multi-cam setups. The Grand Hacker is a 15-minute, proof of concept live cinema story about a sadistic hacker that peers into the lives of his unsuspecting neighbours. Afterwards, we will explore best practices and an overall description of 360° video and how to use it to design, prototype and produce it as an interactive online art experience. Participants will also have the opportunity to pitch their own live cinema and 360° video projects.
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Maziar GhaderiMedia artist and theatre innovatorMaziar Ghaderi is a Toronto-based media artist and theatre innovator that articulates social commentary through metaphors, epiphanies and critiques centring unheard voices through his artistic practice, Playformance. With a breadth of experience creating live shows for SummerWorks (x2), International Symposium of Electronic Art (x2), Luminato (x2), Nuit Blanche (x3) and HarbourFront Centre, his artistic practice has utilized emerging technology to amplify community-centric cultural rituals such as Sufi whirling, Capoeira and Inuit throat-singing. Ghaderi’s works have gained recognition from MIT Media Lab, Globe & Mail (x2), VICE (x2), Washington Times, and Newsweek. He also co-founded the BIPOC-centred media arts collective, blcknbrwn, has raised more than $115,000 for his art and film projects in 2021 alone and was the media producer and videographer for Marina Abramovic at the 2013 Luminato Festival’s MAI Prototype.
