"Zoe Butler: Virtual Mas" : Movement and Coding Workshop

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Virtual Mas is a studio workshop grounded in the traditions of Caribbean performance and philosophy. The class invites participants to think together about masquerade as an emancipatory ethos, a technique of artful struggle, expression of identity as well as a resistance to visibility, through a shared process of digital mask making using P5.js and Blender.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Participants are asked bring their own computers and are encouraged to download Blender ahead of time. Students will need to access the in house wifi network with chairs and table space.

ARTIST BIO

Zoe Butler is a New Media Performance Artist who uses abstract moving images to engage and expand Guyanese folktales. Butler is a 2023-24 Fulbright Research Fellowship recipient, affiliated with The University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine Trinidad and Tobago. Her ongoing project titled Conversations and Constellations is a body of creative research exploring Caribbean oral traditions and the histories from which they emerge, to encourage the continued exchange of storytelling.