Freya Björg Olafson - Lag, Loop, Render: Digital Bodies in Performance

Freya Björg Olafson presenting: Lag, Loop, Render: Digital Bodies in Performance Workshop!

About the Workshop
This online session will trace Olafson’s early experiments with technology in performance and situate their work within a lineage of artists who have explored liveness, digital mediation and representation. Olafson will share excerpts of past works that integrate various technologies like 3D scanning, game development software, and MoCap. Olafson will share their current interest in webcam motion capture techniques which open questions to how these technologies reshape notions of authorship, representation, and archiving. Participants' questions can drive the direction of the session and Olafson will snapshot some technical processes used to create recent work.

Time: 11:00-1pm PST

Location: Online via Zoom (link will be sent out to ticket holders) 

Artist Bio

Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, animation, motion capture, XR, painting, and performance. Olafson has exhibited and performed internationally at the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), LUDWIG museum (Budapest), and Ochoymedio (Ecuador) among others. Olafson has benefitted from residencies, most notably through EMPAC - Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York) and Counterpulse (San Francisco). Recent awards and recognitions include the ‘Sobey Art Award’ longlist (2020), the 'Lumen Prize for Art & Technology' longlist (2021) and the OFFTA / Mois Multi - Hybridity Grant (2025). Olafson’s performance ‘AVATAR’ (2009) was published in 2021 as a score / script for Playwrights Canada Press’ “Long Live the New Flesh: Six Plays from the Digital Frontier”. In 2026 her chapter about performance capture will be published in the “Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Animation Studies”. Olafson was Assistant Professor in Screendance within the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto (2017 - 2021). Since July 2021, Olafson is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media at the School of Art / University of Manitoba.. www.freyaolafson.com

Ticketing

Participants can choose the price that works best for them, several pricing options available.

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